As the world continues to be awash in fiscal and economic uncertainty, investors both big and small have flocked to gold. Funds like the ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (Nasdaq:SGOL) have seen their assets under management swell, and prices for the yellow metal are up about 27% so far in 2011. With no end in sight to the financial uncertainty, many analysts continue to revise their price targets for gold higher and higher. However, in all this gold hysteria, a strange thing has occurred. Precious metal platinum, which has traded much higher than gold for the last 20 or so years, has now reached parity. For investors looking for value in the precious metals space, now could be a good time to strike.

 

 

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