Of Money, Diamond Funds and Transparency. No Room for Monkey Business
May 25, 11 by Edahn GolanWhat started as a trickle is now slowly becoming a steady stream of companies looking to achieve two goals – trading in diamonds as an investment-class asset and bringing new "outside" money into the diamond industry. Read More...
Picking Him May Actually Have Been the Easy Part, The Tough Part is “Now What?”
May 18, 11 by Edahn GolanWhat should we expect from the new CEO of De Beers, what do the Sightholders and others in the diamond trade think about the selection? And what is the truth about Penny's hasty departure? Read More...
New De Beers CEO? Oui, Peut-Être*
May 11, 11 by Edahn GolanIt has been nearly a year since Gareth Penny announced his departure, and it seems like the choice of a new CEO for the De Beers Group has been made…at least almost. Read More...
The Swaziland Dilemma: A New Sandbox, Old Issues
May 04, 11 by Edahn GolanTry a small exercise: because the situation is rather fresh, you have the opportunity to set a country's diamond policies from scratch. What would you do? Read More...
Look Up and Smell the Info
April 27, 11 by Edahn GolanLast week IDEX Online launched an old-new product, the Indian DRB. Old, because we have had the DRB for about a year now, new because this version is in Indian Rupees, specifically geared for the Indian market – and pardon the shameless plug. Read More...
Happy Holidays
April 20, 11 by Edahn GolanThe Passover holiday is celebrated in Jewish communities around the world this week and Easter is just around the corner. Happy holidays, we will be back next week. Read More...
A Delicate Coast of Diamonds
April 13, 11 by Edahn GolanIts elected president finally taking the reigns, the embargo on diamond exports about to expire, and some very porous borders – a dive into Côte d’Ivoire and its fragile situation raises questions about the resumption of its diamond exports. Read More...
Carpe Diem, For Who Knows Where We're Heading
April 07, 11 by Edahn GolanIf you didn't have a calendar, you could suspect that it's mid-2008. Polished prices are increasing, rough prices are at an all time high, optimism is in the air, and the party is raging. But every mid-2008 has a late 2008. Where are we heading? Read More...
The Unseen Path from Basel to Koidu
March 30, 11 by Edahn GolanI made an unusual journey last week spending the first half of it at a diamond mine in Sierra Leone, and the second half at the Basel show. These two places could not have been further apart. Read More...
Kosher But Smelly, or the Case of the Frog That Jumps Through Loopholes
March 24, 11 by Edahn GolanThe decision by KP Chairman Mathieu Yamba to authorize full exports from Marange is legal. The problem is that when drafted, KP did not take into account a host of situations. The irony is that while many claimed that the diamond industry was cynical and shifty, it was in fact simply naïve. Read More...
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