Although small amounts of precious metals are easy to store, investors who hold large amounts of physical bullion may require a more secure method to keep their reserves. While a home safe or a bank safe deposit box can adequately maintain most silver and gold holdings, larger investors in physical silver are becoming more numerous, due to the global collapse of fiat currencies.
Increasingly, precious metals investors, who prefer holding physical precious metals over paper investment instruments, are choosing segregated vault storage to hold and sequester their investment from other dealer and client accounts. Full segregation of silver and gold investments increases the owner’s ability to weather investment risks associated with economics, politics or systemic contagion, but insures the ability to obtain secure timely liquidation or delivery of their precious metals assets.
Private custodians of precious metals assets fully insure segregated vault investments, while holding the original physical metal acquired by the purchaser. Segregated vaulting is considered the most secure method of precious metal storage among precious metals investors and purveyors.
Contrary to popular belief, bank safe deposit boxes are not insured by the FDIC, like other bank deposits! This is a little known fact that makes the small management fees required to obtain segregated vault storage, money well spent.
The desired investment goals of storing quantities of physical precious metals can be more easily met with a segregated vault. Greatest among these goals for today’s investor is the maintenance of silver and gold stores as a safe haven asset, in the event of catastrophic economic collapse.
