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Name	Safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal.	Storage options	Estimated costs		Comments	Next steps
Name		Storage options	Purchase	Annual fee	Comments	Next steps
BullionVault Founded: 2003 Headquarters: London, Great Britain Clients: More than 34,500 Assets under Management: ca. 1.4 billion US-Dollars	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of their gold. Insured, independent storage The vaulted gold is insured, the independent storage company Via Mat is a member of the LBMA. Storage options: Zurich, London, New York. Transparent, external audit Very high transparency, e.g. daily reconciliation of client gold holdings with formal bar list from vault operator; publication of audited accounts. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading each day 24x7 Clients can place buy and sell orders daily, around the clock (24x365). Outside of usual trading hours, trade volumes can be low and premiums high.	London New York Zurich	0.84 % Costs taken into account: Margin Commission New clients receive in addition 1g gold for free. Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of BullionVault.	0.12 % Costs taken into account: Monthly minimum fee or Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings (if higher than minimum fee) Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of BullionVault.	Gold, Silver BullionVault offers its customers Gold and Silver. 1 gram gold for free New customers of BullionVault receive an additional 1 gram of gold for free.	BullionVault review Next »
GoldRepublic Founded: 2010 Headquarters: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Clients: Not published Assets under Management: Not published	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of gold. Insured, independent storage The vaulted gold is insured and stored by the independent storage companies VIAMAT or G4S. VIAMAT and G4S are both members of the LBMA. Storage options: Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt. Transparent, external audit Very high transparency, e.g. daily reconciliation of client gold holdings with formal bar list from vault operator; publication of audited accounts. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days Clients can place buy and sell orders on business days.	Amsterdam Frankfurt Zurich	1.80 % Costs taken into account: Transaction Fee Margin Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of GoldRepublic.	0.50 % Costs taken into account: Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of GoldRepublic.	Gold, Silver GoldRepublic offers its customers Gold and Silver. AFM license GoldRepublic is based in the Netherlands and holds a license from the AFM (Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets). Savings plans GoldRepublic offers gold and silver savings plans starting from € 50,- per month. Gift accounts GoldRepublic offers one-off gift accounts starting from € 50,-.	GoldRepublic review Next »
GoldMoney Founded: 2001 Headquarters: Jersey, British Channel Islands Clients: More than 21.500 Assets under Management: ca. 2 billion US-dollars	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of their gold. Insured, independent storage The vaulted gold is insured, the independent storage company Via Mat is a member of the LBMA. Storage options: Zurich, London, Hong Kong Transparent, external audit Very high transparency, quarterly publication of reports from Via Mat, inspection company and audit firm. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days 24h Clients can place buy and sell orders from Monday to Friday, around the clock.	Hong Kong London Zurich	2.19 % Costs taken into account: Commission Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of GoldMoney.	0.18 % Costs taken into account: Monthly minimum fee or Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings (if higher than minimum fee) Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of GoldMoney.	Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium GoldMoney offers its customers Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium. No selling fees Currently, GoldMoney does not charge any commissions or fees when the customer sells the gold. JFSC License GoldMoney is seated in Jersey, British Channel Islands, and holds a Money Service Business License from the Jersey Financial Services Commission.	GoldMoney review Next »
The Perth Mint Depositary Program Founded: 1899 Headquarters: Perth, Australia Clients: 20,000 clients (depository) Assets under Management: Australian Dollars 3.3 billion of clients’ precious metals on deposit	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of gold. Insured, independent storage Gold is kept in storage facilities insured, owned and operated by Perth Mint or any alternative storage facility approved by Gold Corporation. Transparent, external audit Allocated Precious Metal is physically segregated and separated and all bars are recorded; Clients or nominated third parties may inspect of audit holdings. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days Buy and sell orders can be placed each business day. No automatic purchase of metals, clients have to contact Perth Mint's office by phone in order to trade.	Australia	2.31 % Costs taken into account: Buy fee Product fabrication fee Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of Perth Mint.	1.00 % Costs taken into account: Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of Perth Mint.	Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Perth Mint offers its customers Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium. Minimum investment Minimum investment for AUS/NZ residents: AUD 5,000,- non-residents: AUD 50,000.-	The Perth Mint Depositary Program review Next »
Bullion Management Group Founded: 1998 (BMG BullionBars was launched in 2008) Headquarters: Toronto, Canada (additional offices in Vancouver and Hong Kong) Clients: Not published Assets under Management: About 540 million Canadian Dollars, whereof about 45.6m in BullionBars	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of their gold. Insured, independent storage The gold is insured; The Bank of Nova Scotia is acting as custodian. Transparent, external audit Each month, ScotiaMocatta issues a report to BMG listing the bars added to or removed from the vault; The BullionBars list from custodian ScotiaMocatta is published on BMG‘s website. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days BMG executes buy or sell orders on business days through a BMG Authorized Dealer.	Hong Kong New York Toronto	n/a No information on prices available.	n/a No information on prices available.	Gold, Silver, Platinum Bullion Management Group offers its customers Gold, Silver, and Platinum.	Bullion Management Group review Next »
Gold Bullion International Founded: 2010 Headquarters: New York, United States of America Clients: Not published Assets under Management: Not published	Meets our safety criteria Please click here for further information about the trusted provider seal. Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of gold. Insured, independent storage The gold is insured with Lloyds of London; the gold is stored with independent vault operators. Transparent, external audit Quarterly audit of precious metals holdings by an independent accounting firm. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days Business days: Days in which the NYSE is open for business. GBI works with several precious metals dealers and aims to settle trades within two days after placing an order.	London New York Salt Lake City Zurich	n/a No information on purchase prices available.	0.65 % Costs taken into account: Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of Gold Bullion International.	Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Gold Bullion International offers its customers Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium.	Gold Bullion International review Next »
The Anglo Far-East Company Founded: 2001 Headquarters: Based in Zug, Switzerland; Administration address: Panama City Clients: Not published Assets under Management: Not published	Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of their gold. Insured, independent storage The vaulted gold is insured; use of trustee company and one or more specialist high security storage facilities. Transparent, external audit Publication of audit information, only for clients or prospective clients. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Medium liquidity Clients can place buy orders online daily around the clock, but there is no automatic processing; Spot price of next trading session.	Zurich	8.75 % Costs taken into account: Buying commission Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of The Anglo Far-East Company.	0.90 % Costs taken into account: Storage fee of first seven years is covered by buying fee Annual storage fee as a percentage of holdings from year 8 on Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of The Anglo Far-East Company.	Gold, Silver The Anglo Far East Company offers its customers Gold and Silver. Free storage for 7 years No storage fee for the first 7 years of storage.	The Anglo Far-East Company review Next »
Everbank Founded: Origins date back to the 1960s Headquarters: Jacksonville, FL, USA Clients: ca. 600,000 Assets under Management: ca. USD 9.9bn	Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of gold. Insured, independent storage Not specified, gold is held by third party repositories within or outside of the US as determined at Everbank's sole discretion. Transparent, external audit No published audit of precious metals holdings. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days Trading on normal business days.	Not specified	n/a No information on purchase prices available.	1.50 % Costs taken into account: Annual fee for storage of gold as a percentage of holdings Detailed information regarding costs can be found in the review of Everbank.	Gold, Silver Everbank offers its customers Gold and Silver. Storage not specified Storage location not specified, in or outside of the US.	Everbank review Next »
Global Gold Founded: 2009 (parent company BFI was founded in 1991) Headquarters: Engelberg, Switzerland Clients: Not published Assets under Management: Not published	Outright ownership of 100% gold Clients have full ownership of their gold. Insured, independent storage The gold is insured; it is stored in Switzerland. Via Mat is listed as a partner, but this is not written in the contracts, and gold holdings are not separately published by a vault operator. Transparent, external audit Inventory audits are conducted by an accounting firm at least once a year but are not available to the general public. Optional delivery Clients can request delivery of their gold for an additional fee. Trading on business days Buy Orders are priced and executed on Global Gold's business days during the Global Gold AM or PM Trading times.	Switzerland	Minimum investment: CHF 50,000.-		Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Global Gold offers its customers Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium.	Global Gold review Next »

Last update: 02.05.2012