Buy and Sell Vaulted Gold, Silver and Platinum

Three phrases are used across the bullion industry as if they were standards: “LBMA-approved vault”, the “chain of integrity” and “end-to-end tracking”. None of them is a certification a vault can hold. This article sets out what each term means, what it does not mean, and then the four things that decide whether metal stored for the long term is sound: ownership, jurisdiction, testing and insurance.

BBC Newsday interviewed our founder, Gregor Gregersen, live at The Safe House, our vault within The Reserve, for a report on Singapore’s decision to open its national currency vault to foreign central banks. Gregor explained why investors hold physical gold to preserve wealth over the long term and what makes Singapore a trusted place to store it.

Paper trading sets silver’s price, but physical availability sets its limits. This article explores the shrinking buffer in London’s vaults, the forces that could trigger another shortage, and what the gold-to-silver ratio means for holders of physical bullion.

As US federal debt crosses $40 trillion and the Treasury intervenes in its own long-term debt market, investors are again turning to gold. Yet silver and platinum may offer the stronger relative-value case, with both metals trading more than 35% below their January records despite persistent supply deficits and increasingly constrained physical availability.