LONDON, 6 July 2015 – Comment from BullionVault, the leading physical gold exchange online, today features in a report on precious metals investing from FT Adviser, the finance profession's weekly title from the Financial Times.
Asking if other precious metals could substitute for gold in an investor's portfolio, FT Advisor speaks to experts from the exchange-traded trust fund market, and the giant Blackrock asset management group, as well as BullionVault head of research Adrian Ash.
"Silver's greatest demand comes from China, the US and Japan for industrial use," Adrian explains, "from the US for coins, and from India for bars, jewellery and silverware.
"Retail demand is very price sensitive worldwide," he goes on, noting how "art auctioneers pleaded with UK households to stop selling silverware for scrap at the top of the bull market[s] in the 1970s and 2000s."
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