New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Most investors considergold safe haven, and investing in it generally gives an assurance of sorts that the money is safely locked in a reliable asset. This is not expected to deliver extraordinary returns just like equity. But perception can be different from reality. In the case of gold, it indeed is.

In a latestpost byNikhil Kamath, co-founder of Zerodha and True Beacon, asserts that gold has outperformed equities globally in the past two years, while India is an outlier. This means that it's only in India that the premium of return on gold over equities is negative, albeit marginally. He also mentioned that these returns happened without much volatility.

"The crazy thing about gold is these returns are on the ba...