Asset Classes

Precious Metal

Plural Name
Precious Metals

Precious metals are naturally-occuring classification of metal elements of high economic value. Mostly driven by their rarity attributes, precious metals are also driven by their industrial processes and investment capabilities. Other than coinage metals such as gold and silver, some of these precious metals include platinum, iridium, alloys, and palladium. Modern investors seek an allocation to precious metals as a portfolio diversifier and hedge against inflation.

Gold

Book

2014

  • Almost all the world's high-grade surface deposits worth mining have been found - need to go deeper and deeper (c 2020)