What are the places where the largest number of deals involving investment diamonds is made around the world?
They are where there are greatest concentrations of rich people – in the U.S., Middle East, Japan and Europe. I would like to note that we are not talking about mass products and even about goods for the well-heeled middle class. Basic public information on diamond sales is usually related to these groups, but we’re talking about those rocks, the owners of which prefer to stay incognito. What are the main types of deals with investment diamonds: are they private and made tete-a-tete, or through brokers, stores, auctions, brokerage firms, mutual funds? This is a very delicate business. So, of course, they are made tete-a-tete. It is quite another matter that often to take a decision about purchasing an investments diamond a person feels the information shared by the manufacturer or owner of the stone is not sufficient. An investment diamond is after all not bought only by an impulse of one’s soul, so to speak. This is an investment based on expectation to keep its value or even increase
