GOLD/SILVER & MINING SECTION

There has been much discussion about the proposed silver ETF, the Barclays iShares Silver Trust. As usual with anything silver, there is plenty of irony, confusion and baseless speculation. Hopefully this commentary will, to some extent, help change the sorry state of affairs.

• Full report - It's long but we doubt you'll find a more objective and detailed explanation

To sum up, the report says be wary of investing in this new ETF, instead go with some of the bigger silver stocks or the Central Fund of Canada which we wrote about in this post.