This short video asks whether silver deserves a place in a retirement portfolio. Silver can be held in a self-directed IRA, but only coins and bars meeting the IRS's 99.9% purity standard under IRC Section 408(m), stored with an approved custodian and depository -- and its price history...
This short video touches on gold as an investment. For retirement savers specifically, gold can be added to an IRA as a Gold IRA - a self-directed account where an approved custodian holds IRS-eligible gold meeting the purity standard in IRC Section 408(m), rather than the gold being kept...
This video covers using gold and silver to build retirement wealth as a couple. Since each spouse's IRA is a separate legal account -- there is no such thing as a joint IRA -- a married couple typically uses two self-directed IRAs, each with its own IRS-approved custodian, to hold...
This video touches on a real distinction between gold and assets like bonds or bank deposits: gold carries no default risk, since no issuer or counterparty owes you a payment that could go unpaid. A bond can default if the issuer fails to pay; physical gold simply has no such promise...
This short video covers the basics of managing risk in a precious metals IRA. The real risk-management basics: diversify beyond a single metal, use an IRS-approved custodian and depository since personal possession of IRA metals is a prohibited transaction under IRC Section 4975, and know...
