While the financial markets, currency and precious metals have been volatile the past few years and traditional asset classes have been in turmoil, one little-known sector has been steadily climbing in value year after year Rare Industrial Metals.

Why? Because of the entire world´s increasing dependency on the high-tech products that these metals make possible.

It is hard to imagine our world today without Cell phones, I Pads, LCD´s, Lasers, Medical Imagery, Jet Aircraft, Electric or Hybrid Automobiles, Alternative Energy Sources and Nuclear Energy. National Geographic called this asset class of rare elements ¨The Secret Ingredient of Almost Everything¨.

Prior to 2009, there was no way for private investors, or even most institutional investors, to buy into stockpiles of actual physical Rare Metals and industrial Gold and Silver. The world’s suppliers only sold to industrial buyers through metals traders who handled the complex process referred to as ¨ex-works”, which include commissions at the point of sale, insurance, packaging and handling, transportation, storage, licensing, taxes, duties and special tariffs. This system meant that participants had to be serious hands-on metal traders with real infrastructure at the very least many hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy-in.

This has recently changed. There is only one company we know of in the entire world where individual passive investors can purchase these rare metals for investment in relatively small quantities. We have investigated the company and its principals, visited with them, and carried out in-depth due diligence. This company is Swiss Metal Assets, S.A. (SMA) of Panama City, Panama.

In 2010 SMA, in partnership with the Swiss firm Schweizerische Metallhandel AG, offices were opened under the name Swiss Metal Assets, in Panama City, Panama in order to bring this investment to a worldwide audience.

Schweizerische Metallhandel AG (SMH) and the German metal trader Haines & Maassen together came up with a smart way for initially Swiss and German investors to claim their own stakes in physical Rare Metals and Industrial Silver. Haines & Maassen (HM) has been a leader in the European Metals Industry since 1948 while SMH has been an active trading company in Europe for 60 years.

Instead of selling metals in substantial amounts to industrial users exclusively, the partnership splits the metals into smaller quantities, allowing individuals to own them physically while securely storing them in a high security duty free vault outside of Zurich. Metals are currently allocated into three types of ¨baskets¨ which amongst them carry 11 different Rare Industrial Metals.

All the metals are 100% physically and legally owned by the buyer at all times. The buyer can either take possession of the Rare Metals and Industrial Precious Metals or, like most investors, let them remain in the Swiss vault and accumulate value over time.

The baskets were up in value 47% in 2010 and are up about 25% in value in 2011 to-date. These increases in value have averaged 25-30% over the past 5 years and have obviously occurred during very difficult economic times.

So what does it cost? As a buyer you are gaining access at the wholesale level to Rare Industrial Metals, something you could never do on your own. You are buying at the same price that industrial buyers are paying today, plus a fee for access to this market. Please contact Swiss Metal Assets for their daily “turnkey” basket prices which includes the cost of the metals, fees and all the “ex-works” costs detailed earlier. By the way, the minimum entry level is currently below $8,000.

You should also know that Swiss Metal Assets can help you hold these metals in your self-directed IRA with an offshore LLC, in a completely IRS compliant structure, allowing you to “supercharge” your IRA’s performance with these rare industrial metals.

To sell your rare industrial metals you need only contact SMA and instruct them to do so in writing. A tax free sale in Switzerland happens when the customer instructs SMA to sell the metals from the vault in Switzerland. In the case of a large sale it may take up to 2 weeks to ensure the best possible price for the seller. If the client needs to expedite this process and the order is less than $250k, SMA will arrange the sale as quickly as possible, typically within 5 business days.

SMA does not currently charge a commission on the sale of the metals.

Proceeds of the sale can be denominated in any currency you wish and sent to any 3rd party or bank account worldwide.

Swiss Metal Assets is currently offering a Christmas promotion to Panama Equity readers of FIVE YEARS OF FREE STORAGE AND INSURANCE for all new industrial metals baskets purchased from Dec 1 to Dec 31, 2011. That amounts to an instant 7.5% discount (5 years at 1.5% a year). To take advantage of this offer you must specifically request it and mention Panama Equity

In addition to these guaranteed savings of 7.5% gained by acting now, it is possible that an additional 10% increase in the metal basket values may arise solely from the realignment of the euro vs. the dollar, as European economic conditions improve next year.

Right now the rare strategic metals baskets are currently valued at a level in US $ that is very attractive, as a result mainly of the currency relationship of the troubled Euro vs the temporarily stronger US $ over the last few months.

We invite you to explore owning RIMs and do your own research.

If it sounds like something up your alley, by all means, contact Swiss Metal Assets and see what they have in store for you.

Please reference “Panama Equity” in the message field below to receive 5 years free storage and insurance that amounts to an instant 7.5% discount for your industrial metals in the Zurich duty-free zone.

Please don’t delay and miss out on this free storage opportunity as well as future growth – fill in your information below and a Rare Metals Advisor from SMA will get back to you promptly.