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Material assets may be the way to goFor years, almost reflexively, portfolio managers have recommended that a portfolio of equities contain a five-percent holding in gold.Is it time to re-think that percentage?  With the U.S. budget deficit at well over $400 billion, the surging demand for natural resources and precious metals from India and China, the struggling U.S. dollar, and the now ever-present threat of terrorist attacks and epidemics, it may time to increase it- maybe substantially.In the past few years, the price of hard assets and natural resources have soared. Oil, copper, gold, coal, water, etc. are in ever-increasing
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