That's easy to say in hindsight. Tell us, what will do better than gold over the next 100 years?
A diversified stock portfolio. Don't forget to reinvest those dividends!!
A well diversified portfolio of quality stocks, bonds, and treasuries, purchased over time (dollar cost averaging) through discount brokers or better yet, no-commission, low cost mutual funds. Although no one can predict with certainty whether these time tested investments will do as well over the next 100 years as they did over the last 100 years, no one can predict either whether gold will perform any better than it has over the last 100 years. I'll take my chances with proven winners, and gold is not one of them.