Silver provides diversification and a hedge against mainstream assets. For long-term stability and growth physical silver should be considered the most secure store of wealth, with financial instruments such as ETFs, funds, miners and futures being more suited to short-term speculation. Continuing the “Risks and Reasons” article series, Intelligent Partnership’s investment analyst Luke Jackson is looking at silver. Silver has many uses, most commonly in industry, but it is also used in photography, jewellery and for investment. In much the same way as gold, silver provides a tangible store of wealth, can be a long-term inflation hedge and provides diversification from mainstream…