Is gold the place to hide from negative yields?

Negatively yielding debt is an unusual situation. 16-9-2019 Is gold the place to hide from negative yields? - Adviser - Schroders It means investors effectively pay interest to the borrower to own the debt rather than the other way around, as you would pay a normal loan. In a sensible world this makes no sense for any investor; and yet the amount of negatively yielding US dollar debt recently hit a record high at $15.5 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate universe.