All financial advisors preach diversification as the key to the success of any investment portfolio. Risk can be mitigated through including many different types of assets in your portfolio. Many experts today are advising to include gold and silver as a balance to stocks, bonds and cash as precious metals tend to have inverse relationships to paper assets. The great news is that the U.S. Government allows for certain physical gold and silver products to be included in an IRA or Roth IRA, making owning gold and silver easy!