Lab-Grown vs Natural Diamonds: What Yours Is Actually Worth When You Sell

Here is the short version, so you get the answer before the detail. A lab-grown diamond and a natural diamond can be chemically identical, look identical, test identical on a basic diamond tester, and still fetch wildly different amounts when you decide to part with one. Natural stones hold a resale value because supply is […]
Selling Inherited Gold and Jewellery in South Africa: What the Executor Needs to Know

If you have been appointed executor of a deceased estate in South Africa and there is gold in it, coins, rings, chains, an old watch, a box of odds and ends that nobody has opened since the 1980s, you are holding an asset class that behaves differently from a house or a bank account. Gold […]