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 shows sharper swings than gold, which is why most advisors treat it as a smaller diversifier rather than a core retirement holding.

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