Why aren't more people putting their savings into precious metals?

Lots of people just don't know the range of options available to them.

And when people think about investing in gold, quite often they're thinking about the big gold bars that you might see in the films, like the Italian job and that kind of thing.

But each of those bars is about 12.5 kilos of gold and it's worth about 1.2 million pounds.

So you won't be surprised to know that that's not how most people are investing in gold today.

You can buy gold on the stock exchange in the same way that you buy stocks and shares.

And you can also buy something called digigold from the Royal Mint from as little as 25 pounds.

What would you say to someone who's nervous about investing in gold or silver for the first time?

What's been driving that performance? And do you think the outlook remains positive?

Yeah, for a safe haven asset or perceived safe haven asset, gold's had a pretty wild 18 months really.

So it was up 67% last year in dollars.

And then it kind of went parabolic in January, hitting $5,000 and surging past that.

It's cooled off a bit since then, I think partly because the speculators maybe are out of the market.

There's a little bit of central bank selling, which has weighed on the price a little bit, but it feels like a bit of a healthier level.

But the things that are driving it really is geopolitical uncertainty.

How has investor demand for physical gold changed in recent years and what trends are you seeing today? I