The graph shows the value in US dollars (in millions of dollars) of investment in funds of four categories from 1988 to 2014.
Overall, the data reveals relatively an improvement in all investment funds categories, with gold consistently maintained its most preferred category throughout the observed years, while property remained the less preferred among other categories.
In 1988, Gold constituted a pronounced rate of $100 million, establishing it the leader in the investment sector, closely followed by fine art, accounting for $80 million, while Property and Company Shares exhibited a modest figure at $50 million each. Following this initial observation, an unprecedented low occurred in the Gold investment, plummeting to $50 million by 1992, the same pattern was echoed in the Property category, slightly reducing to $49 million. Conversely, the amount of funds in company shares increased to $51 million, as the investment in fine art stabilized at $80 million, which was continued to grow steadily by 1994 to 2014, culminating at $250 million in 2014.
Gold demonstrated a resurgence of $150 million in 1994, before dropping back to $90 million by 1998, the trend continued to display a gradual rise to an impressive $450 by 2012, and experienced a marginal decline to $370 million in the end year. Moreover, Fine Art oscillated between $50 million to $150 million through mid-2000, which later peaking at $340 million. Furthermore, the investment in Property showed a sluggish improvement, edging up at $250 million by the end of the examined year.