Natural Fancy Colored Diamonds and 'Wealth Stealth'

Yaniv Marcus of the Diamond Investment & Intelligence Center published an article that looks at the concept of “wealth stealth,” which he describes as “the ability to store as much wealth as possible, in as little space as possible, in a physical form.”
He looks at how much wealth can be stored in commodities like gold, platinum and even art as compared to natural fancy colored diamonds, noting, “[i]t is absolutely shocking to see how much value in is 1 gram of a pink or a blue diamond as compared to gold, platinum, a colorless diamond, or the most expensive work of art.”
The article concludes:

Over the period in question, gold had an overall increase of 199%, platinum increased by 41%, colorless diamonds increased by 234%, artwork was a major winner with an overall increase of 1011% and fancy color diamonds made a total of 417% return. The most notable reason for this among many is the lack of education about and understanding of fancy color diamonds for the last 30 years or so, because it is only in the last 10 years that the market had started to understand and appreciate them. Fancy color diamonds lagged behind artwork investment for a very long time, and only in the past few years have they been gaining traction. I foresee that in the next 5-10 years, the broader market will be much more informed and educated about fancy color diamonds, and thus the influx of capital and investment dollars will be pouring into this niche. I am quite confident that we will see a major price breakthrough for the overall fancy color diamonds market, and even more so into the Investment grade diamonds market. Something tells me that we will see new and major record breaking prices and wealth concentration in the fancy color diamonds market faster than we think.

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