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June 10, 2011

WBrief: London & Capital launches gold, diamond investment service

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Tapping into what it sees as investor demand for “real assets” such as precious metals as inflation fears hold sway, UK-based wealth manager London & Capital has launched a bespoke diamond and gold investment service

Tapping into what it sees as investor demand for “real assets” such as precious metals as inflation fears hold sway, UK-based wealth manager London & Capital has launched a bespoke diamond and gold investment service.

The service is offered in close partnership with Wolf Rabstein of Max Rabstein & Son, at a time when diamonds and gold, for example, have already risen rapidly amid heavy falls in major currencies such as the dollar, concerns about inflation, and geopolitical tensions. More positively, rising affluence in emerging economies such as India has also driven demand.

Investment diamonds rose about 20 per cent in price in 2010 (source: Fusion Alternatives). Gold, meanwhile, is currently trading around $1,500 per ounce, having risen about 24 per cent in the past year to almost $1,580 before retreating slightly (source: Bloomberg).

London & Capital explained that under the precious metals side of the programme, £25,000, (around $40,921) for example, buys around 100 22-carat sovereign coins, each weighing about 0.235 troy ounces and at a cost of about £245. The buyer obtains a tube of 25 coins and the investor can take personal delivery of the coins or to have them stored securely in Max Rabstein & Son’s Hatton Garden vault. Among other features, investors can hold gold bars, London & Capital said in a statement.

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