About us

The company

In 2010 Christian Haese, Fabian Haunss and Daniel Haese discussed gold investments and ways for retail investors to invest in gold. They developed the idea to rate and compare providers of vaulted gold, their preferred form of gold investment. Given that professionally stored physical gold and its providers in most countries like the United States and the United Kingdom are not heavily regulated and offer very different fee structures, the need for objective and transparent information and price comparisons seemed obvious.

In March 2011 Trustable Sevices GmbH was founded in Berlin, Germany. Two months later in May 2011, Trustable Gold launched its website for the German-speaking market. The international version opened in September 2011 under www.trustablegold.com.

Our philosophy

We want to provide investors with easy-to-understand, objective information on providers of financial services and their offers. From our experience, many people have only limited knowledge of financial products and/or do not want to spend much time dealing with financial matters.

As in other areas, the emergence of the Internet leads to new customer-friendly, transparent and objective online platforms that support investors in making investment decisions.

With Trustable Gold we want to provide exactly that: an independent and objective guide for investors looking for gold investments. Due to lax or nonexistent regulation, the market for physical gold investment often lacks transparency with respect to dubious providers. That can make gold investments risky and costly. We assess and compare providers of vaulted gold based on objective criteria and help investors choose the right provider.

We receive referral commissions from providers of vaulted gold if they acquire clients through our website. Our assessment criteria are fully transparent and our evaluation and cost comparisons are not dependent on any referral fees. Clients will find objective reasoning behind every rating.

The team

The founders of Trustable Gold have a strong background in the financial services industry, consulting and wealth management.

Christian Haese

Christian studied economics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he received his diploma and graduated as the best in the graduating class of 1999. Until February 2011, he worked for more than 10 years as a management consultant for Accenture, a leading global technology and consulting firm. His primary focus was on financial services companies.

Prior to his work as a management consultant, Christian was a founder and managing director of fingerprint New Media, a small web technology company in Germany.

Daniel Haese

Daniel holds a doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg and received a Master of Business Law and Taxation from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is a fully qualified lawyer. Prior to founding Trustable Services GmbH, Daniel worked for several years as a lawyer, first for an international law firm in the field of finance law and structured products and later for a German law firm in the fields of business law and company law.

During his studies in 1997, Daniel together with Christian and two other partners founded fingerprint New Media, a web design and programming company.

Fabian Haunss

Fabian studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He holds a diploma in economics. As of 1999 he has worked as a trust manager. Over the last 15 years, Fabian has gathered much experience as a founder, partner and managing director of various domestic and foreign companies.