Precious Metals Articles

How to Roll over Part of Your IRA or 401k to Physical Gold

How to Roll over Part of Your IRA or 401k to Physical Gold

Rolling over part of your IRA or 401k to physical gold can be a smart way to diversify your retirement portfolio and protect your savings from market volatility, inflationary pressure and hedge your account in the event of a stocks crash.

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What is a Gold IRA?

What is a Gold IRA?

A Gold IRA is a type of self-directed IRA that allows you to invest in physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium instead of or alongside more traditional assets such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. A Gold IRA offers investors a way to help diversify and hedge their retirement portfolios and…

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How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA?

How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA?

How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA? Adding gold to an individual retirement account (IRA) is an increasingly popular way for Americans to save for their retirement, especially during times of financial and geopolitical turmoil. While traditional IRAs typically invest in stocks, bonds…

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Bullion.Directory Dubai Office Officially Open

Bullion.Directory Dubai Office Officially Open

Although we set up the Dubai company several months ago now, it’s taken quite a while to get set up personally with residence visas and government IDs – but today after more than a few delays and roadblocks – we’re here, we’re official and we’re open!

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Sean Hannity Endorses Goldco for Diversifying Portfolios with Precious Metals

Sean Hannity Endorses Goldco for Diversifying Portfolios with Precious Metals

Goldco, a leading precious metals provider, today announced its partnership with Sean Hannity, one of the Nation’s top talk show hosts and conservative political commentator. Mr. Hannity’s endorsement of Goldco’s product offerings comes at a time when the U.S. is suffering…

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More Bullion.Directory News For 2022

More Bullion.Directory News For 2022

What started as a small website run and managed by a few gold-obsessed friends has grown to a scale none of us could ever have imagined – and we’re SO pleased it’s been such a useful tool to so many investors – but we need to make some changes to cope with this growth…

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Equity Institutional Expands Precious Metals Storage Options

Equity Institutional Expands Precious Metals Storage Options

Equity Institutional relies on Delaware Depository to safeguard and securely ship precious metals assets held in its customers’ individual retirement accounts (IRAs). That relationship continues as the companies move toward an exciting new option for customers.

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2000 Posts Later:   We’ve Got Some Big Changes Coming!

2000 Posts Later:   We've Got Some Big Changes Coming!

Because as humans we like to place significance on certain numbers, I’m taking this milestone moment to announce some exciting changes coming to Bullion.Directory – and to start things off, we’re moving domains!

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Gold Vs Crypto: Which Is The Better Investment?

Gold Vs Crypto: Which Is The Better Investment?

Gold and cryptocurrency are two of the most popular assets for investors today. Learn which of the two is the better investment option for your portfolio, your goals and your circumstances.

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The Rarest American Silver Eagles

The Rarest American Silver Eagles

The American Silver Eagle series, which turned 35 this year, is the most widely collected and popular modern U.S. coin series that is sought by collectors all over the world. You have probably heard about the increase in demand for these coins…

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The Enduring Numismatic Legacy of Adolph Weinman

The Enduring Numismatic Legacy of Adolph Weinman

Weinman is either the second most influential coin designer in our history after Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whom he knew well and worked with for years, or is tied with him given the large number of coins with his design that have been minted

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Celebrating Five Years of Paying Interest on Gold

Celebrating Five Years of Paying Interest on Gold

It was July 2016 when we offered our first Gold Fixed Income True Gold Lease. The gold lease was to Valaurum for manufacturing their flagship product, theAurum®. Ever since then we’ve been busy Unlocking the Productivity of Gold™ for the good of our clients, and the world…

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We’re Mere Months Away From $2,000 Gold, $31 Silver

We’re Mere Months Away From $2,000 Gold, $31 Silver

CIBC: Gold is still going towards $2,000 and silver to $3. Despite the selloff that caused gold to drop more than 5% within a week, Canadian bank CIBC still optimistic on both gold and silver’s prospects over next few years. While the bank downgraded their average 2021 forecast for gold to $1,925, they expect metal to average $2,100 in 2022.

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Adding American Eagle Gold Coin Proofs to Your IRA

Adding American Eagle Gold Coin Proofs to Your IRA

The Pros and Cons of Diversifying Your Retirement Portfolio With Proof Coins: Even today less than honest bullion dealers are regularly sanctioned by the government for taking advantage of naive investors and selling proof coins far above market value…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Precious Metals

A Beginner's Guide to Precious Metals

Why do portfolio investors typically spread risk across different asset classes like stocks and commodities? This is the most basic form of building a diversified portfolio, with investor’s aim being to minimize risk and maximize gains.

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4 Tips For Investing In Gold For Your IRA

4 Tips For Investing In Gold For Your IRA

A Gold IRA can protect its owner from falling dollar values – when the dollar decreases in value, gold doesn't; therefore, it keeps its value regardless of inflation. At the same time, the same issue is present in the stock market.

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How Does a Gold IRA Work?

How Does a Gold IRA Work?

One of the Most Common Questions We’re Asked is ‘How Does a Gold IRA Work?’ What exactly is it that makes an IRA a better place to hold gold than a regular diversified portfolio? Why bother with the extra paperwork?

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4 Reasons People Invest In Precious Metals

4 Reasons People Invest In Precious Metals

Along with other forms of investments, precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum have been increasingly popular modes of investment recently. Due to their rarity and scarcity, these valuable commodities have withstood the test of time, making them a perfect addition to people’s investment portfolios.

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American Silver and Gold Eagle Proof Coins in an IRA?

American Silver and Gold Eagle Proof Coins in an IRA?

Americans interested in investing in precious metals often ask about doing so through an IRA, or Individual Retirement Account. But what exactly is an IRA and can and IRA hold numismatic coins like American Silver and Gold Eagle Proofs?

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All You Need to Know About Buying Gold in the UK

All You Need to Know About Buying Gold in the UK

Sure, it sounds flashy when people talk about buying gold, but the reality is that a lot of our investors are simply buying gold as another way to store money rather than stockpiling their savings in the banks.

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Getting The Best Deals in the Cash For Gold Market

Getting The Best Deals in the Cash For Gold Market

There is value in Scrap! Huge value in fact, so much that the scrap gold and silver industry has seen massive amounts of people benefit with selling their unwanted jewellery or old silverware at the highest prices the markets have ever seen!

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Things To Consider When Investing In Bitcoin Vs Gold

Things To Consider When Investing In Bitcoin Vs Gold

Which is the better investment, bitcoin or gold? It’s an increasingly common question asked more and more among both newbie and experienced investors. The debate makes sense. Both commodities bring benefits…

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What You Should Do With Your Rare Coin Collection

What You Should Do With Your Rare Coin Collection

Coin collecting can be fun and for many can become a lifetime passion. If done correctly, it can be a profitable activity, too. This article looks at the things that you should (and shouldn’t) do with your rare coin collection

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The Canadian Guy Who Builds Gold Refineries

The Canadian Guy Who Builds Gold Refineries

Corey Kelly needs little by way of an introduction. Many of us in the precious metals industry know him personally, everyone else either knows of him or have heard the legends…

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The US FedCoin Takes Another Step Closer to Reality

The US FedCoin Takes Another Step Closer to Reality

How far in the future FedCoin will launch remains to be seen, but it sure seems like the U.S. is closer to the first major overhaul of the monetary system (and your private life) in decades.

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How Does Investing in Gold Work?

How Does Investing in Gold Work?

The purchasing of gold in coins or bars is one of the more satisfying ways to own gold – being able to touch the gold coins or bars, feeling their weightiness all while admiring their sparkle and sheen brings a kind of emotional satisfaction to the owner unavailable in any other investment.

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An Overview of United States Mint History

An Overview of United States Mint History

The U.S. Mint, which has existed for 228 years, produces circulating coinage, bullion coins, numismatic coins and medals, is the nation’s sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and the world’s largest coining facility.

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New Plan for 2021-Dated Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars

New Plan for 2021-Dated Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars

Though the proposed program remains popular with collectors, the bill never gained much support in Congress. Just before the year ended, the Congress passed the Law Enforcement Commemorative Coin Act and earlier in the year it passed the Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act.

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