What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: Sure, the bank was a great source of income for him and provided some semblance of security for the unwashed masses, but a great man of his stature certainly needed to keep his assets close at hand (in the form of gold boullion and jewels) especially with the threat of anarchists overrunning the country at any moment. Only return the topic.
Storing personal wealth in physical assets due to socio-political instability