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Vaulted Review: Buy and Sell Gold from your Phone
Vaulted is an excellent choice for investors who want to own actual gold, but don’t want to worry about physically storing the gold. The gold you buy through vaulted is insured and stored at the Royal Canadian Mint (you can even visit your gold to inspect it).
Vaulted
- Founded: 1972
- Investment Types: Gold
- Sectors: Gold and Precious Metals
- Minimum Investment: $10
- Open to all investors
Pros
- Automated investing feature
- Services available across the entire US, catering to various property types.
- Low investment minimums
- Long track record
Cons
- Annual storage fee
Overview
This Vaulted Review will help you learn more about Vaulted's investment offerings, including how the alternative investments on Vaulted are structured, and what your potential returns might be. You can read more about the criteria we use to review investment platforms here.
Vaulted is an app for buying and selling physical gold. Vaulted is a trade name of International Collectors Associates, a Colorado-based subsidiary of McAlvany Financial Group, which has been around since 1972.
Types of investments Vaulted offers
When you invest using Vaulted, you are buying actual physical gold, which is stored in the Royal Canadian Mint. If you buy an entire bar of gold, they will provide you with the serial number of the gold bar. You can even arrange to visit your gold, or to have it shipped to you. You can also purchase smaller amounts of gold – the minimum investment is $10.
What do you get when investing with Vaulted?
With Vaulted, you are buying actual gold, so there is no “security” (like a stock or bond) involved.
How does Vaulted make money?
Vaulted charges an annual storage fee of 0.4% (calculated as 0.2% twice a year), which is deducted from your cash balance or from your gold balance. You can avoid the fee by having the gold shipped to you (but then you have to figure out where to store the gold). Vaulted also charges a commission of 1.8% when you sell your gold through their app.
Potential returns and cashflow
There is no cashflow associated with an investment in gold through Vaulted. Your return depends on the price of gold when you choose to sell. Following a trough in 2016, gold has appreciated by 76% over the past 5 years.
Regulatory framework
Because the gold you buy through vaulted isn’t an investment security, it isn’t covered by any SEC regulations. The only tax or regulatory implications of an investment with Vaulted is when you sell the gold. Gold sales are reportable to the IRS, and are taxable.
This review was first published on 16 December 2020.
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