You don’t buy diamonds, even for asset diversification, and then check the next day, or the next month, and consider whether to move more or less money into them based on short term price swings. And there’s a reason for that. Actually, there are two reasons.

Icecap sells diamonds under a model that’s geared towards the needs of investors: low spreads, value transparency, and convenient liquidity. There are many diamond products out there. We sell the diamond itself.

As economies become less stable, and move inexorably towards hyper-inflation and severe recession, what investors need to do to protect themselves necessarily changes. At some point yield and even growth need to give way to wealth preservation. And at some point, wealth-preservation needs to give way to wealth portability and concealment.