How to Make Investing in Gold Simple, Secure & Cost Effective

BullionVault enables you to trade the purest gold at the tiniest spreads...with no delivery charges, minimal insurance fees, and storage costs to make your local bank blush.

This is the crucial difference between BullionVault and holding "unallocated" gold with a bank, or dealing in exchange-traded gold shares through a stockbroker. When a bank sells you unallocated gold, you become the bank's creditor. It owes you the gold in other words, and you do not own the asset you've bought. The gold is only available to you if the bank remains solvent. And if it doesn't...?

Your BullionVault gold, on the other hand, will never be used, lent or sold by the vault where it's stored. Nor is it merely "backed" by gold like a trust-based certificate. Legally and in all eventualities, even a run on the banks...the collapse of the Dollar, Sterling or Euro...a stock-market meltdown...or a crash in the $700 trillion global derivatives market...your gold will be yours.

When you buy gold through BullionVault, you do NOT buy a financial security, like a share or a warrant. You're buying the metal itself, stored in a secure vault. It's your property; it belongs to you.

How to Make Investing in Gold Simple, Secure & Cost Effective

The Purest Gold at the Tightest Prices

BullionVault offers you an easy, cheap and safe way of buying, owning, storing, and selling gold. Because it marries two technological breakthroughs that had both passed the precious metals market by entirely.

The first innovation is the Depository Trust Company's model for making financial trading simple, safe and efficient. Just like CREST — the UK's central stock depository in London — it keeps shares and government bonds in safe-keeping, immobilizing them in a physical location. Only ownership needs to change hands between buyer and seller, making for much faster and cheaper settlement. And at BullionVault — whose founder and director, Paul Tustain, developed I.T. systems to handle CREST dealing for Europe's very biggest investment banks — this means all trades are settled instantly with gold that's already safe inside the vault.

That cuts your risk of counter-party default down to zero.

The second innovation is modeled on Betfair, the internet-based gambling system based in the UK which matches orders from private buyers and sellers directly across the internet. This cuts out the middleman entirely at BullionVault, reducing your costs once again and giving you direct access to the dealing spread.

No middlemen, no delivery costs, and no risk of losing your gold if crisis hits the banking world. You can buy or sell whatever quantity of gold you like, starting from just one gram today. You can test-drive this ground-breaking service for yourself today, at no cost with a free gram of Swiss gold.

How to Make Investing in Gold Simple, Secure & Cost Effective

Safe and Insured Pure Gold

Your gold investment will be stored and insured by ViaMat, the privately-owned Swiss storage company in your choice of New York, London or Zurich vaults. So if you don't trust the government to leave your investments entirely in your hands, the option of storing gold deep underground in Switzerland may be of interest!

If you've not heard of ViaMat, don't be surprised. This professionally-recognized bullion transporter and vault operator likes to remain quiet and discreet, just like its wealthiest clients. But be clear on this point — ViaMat is not a bank. Instead, and for the last 62 years, it has simply stored valuable goods without getting involved in unallocated arrangements and other financial wizardry.

Keeping your gold in ViaMat's high-security vaults makes the actuarial risk of loss so small that it costs only 0.12% per year to store your gold with insurance included. That's less than a third what you'll pay to store gold in a bank through an exchange-traded gold fund.

How to Make Investing in Gold Simple, Secure & Cost Effective

The only Gold Bullion Market open 24/7

Thanks to BullionVault's instant online trading and settlement system, you can take profits or add to your position the very moment gold makes the move you've been waiting for.

The live gold-market order board is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That gives you the chance to trade gold long after the London stock market closes, and even before Asia opens the next morning!

The crucial thing is that your gold will have stayed inside that specially approved bullion vault. So its resale value will be right up there with the "spot" price you see quoted in the newspapers and on the internet.

To find out more, and claim your complimentary gram of Zurich gold, just go to BullionVault now.

To keep your costs low, and to make sure you can sell your gold straight back onto the international bullion market...where the spread between 'buy' and 'sell' prices runs almost to zero...you simply take legal delivery via a custodian — ViaMat International, the leading secure vault operator in Switzerland — without taking possession at home.

You see, your gold is part of a Good Delivery bar. Weighing 12.4kg, these bars have a minimum assayed purity of 99.5%. BullionVault buys these guaranteed, market deliverable gold bars, and stores them at ViaMat on your behalf.

"Of course, we accept the sensitivity of what we are doing," says Paul Tustain. "Which is why we publish our daily audit. This means you can safely check your holding within the vault — from any internet computer anywhere in the world — and prove it to the actual physical bars evidenced by the ViaMat bar list that's issued to us."

This is so simple, but so important. When you open an account with BullionVault, you are given your own unique 'nickname'. It's only known to you, of course. No one else will know that you're storing a portion of your wealth offshore.

Every day, BullionVault then publishes a full list of every single 'nickname' holding gold through its unique system. This list is published on a public internet page. And the sum value of the list (with your nickname on it) adds up exactly to the value of the bar list issued by ViaMat.

In short, this means that you can see in a transparent yet discreet way what your holding in the system is, every day.