This secular trend, tied to clean energy infrastructure, underpins the metal’s dual role as both industrial and monetary asset. Silver shares many attributes with gold but is often considered to offer more beta in up markets (a higher beta implies more pronounced moves than the market overall and in silver’s instance is partly owing to lower liquidity. This means that inflows and outflows have a disproportionately large impact.). It also boasts industrial applications in solar, electricity generation and energy technology that gold can’t compete with generally. Private investor Don Hansen shared his strategies with INN for investing in precious metals, as well as a guide for building a low-risk gold and silver portfolio. Market sentiment for silver price forecast May 2025 remains bullish, driven by robust ETF inflows in early