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 Updated on 10/29/2025

Vault Storage Brokerages
of Gold, Silver, and Platinum
Buying Guide

Vault Storage Brokerages work much in the same way a stock  brokerage does.

Stock brokerages offer you stocks to buy; when you buy them, the brokerage stores those stocks in your personal segregated account, and when you want to trade or sell those stocks, you use their system to do what you want, with minimal overhead costs

The one difference is that with all stock brokerages, getting a physical stock certificate doesn't happen anymore because stock brokerages have turned to digital record-keeping.

Whereas getting the physical bullion from a vault storage broker is commonplace and, in many cases, expected.

Vault Storage Brokerages trade digital precious metals; you make trades like the professionals on the COMEX into wholesale LBMA Gold and Silver Good Delivery Bars.

Low Cost Precious Metals

Low in Cost, in regards to buying precious metals with low premiums.

In most cases, when you buy precious metals on the secondary market, there are premiums added to the intrinsic value of the metal.

Vault Storage Brokerages like Bullion Vault trades in LBMA 400 troy oz. "Good Delivery" gold bars, 1,000 troy oz. Silver bars, and kilogram Platinum bars.  OneGold also trades in these forms of bullion, however they also offer smaller forms of bullion for your brokerage account or for home delivery.

The fact that bullion brokerages trade in large wholesale bars is what allows their customers to buy any amount of gold, silver, or platinum at professional market prices.

What to Know

This page will review two of the Top Vault Storage Brokerages based on their customer reviews, they are: Bullion Vault & OneGold

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Minimum to Start an Account

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Segregated, Allocated Accounts

When you make your first purchase of precious metal from one of these brokerages, the amount of the metal you purchase no longer appears on the brokerages' balance sheet.

When you open an account with a Vault Storage Brokerage, you are setting up a contract or custody arrangement that creates a segregated, allocated account of gold, silver, and platinum.

Vault storage companies act as custodians of your bullion. When a person opens an account with a company that trades and stores bullion, they are in a "Bailment" Agreement.

A Bailment is a legal relationship between two entities involving tangible assets, in this case, the person who buys the bullion and the vault storage brokerage.

The Vault Storage Brokerage is the custodian or "bailee," and the person who buys and owns the bullion is known as the "bailor."

The bullion is not part of the company's balance sheet because it is not their property; it is now in the buyer's name, and the brokerage is storing it for them.

Even in the case of the bankruptcy of the "Bailee's," creditors cannot claim your bullion as theirs because of the Bailment Agreement.

International Storage

International Storage Advantages:

• Global Diversification of Assets
• Insurance companies rate international gold vaults as the most secure locations on earth.
• Reduce the risk that you have at home (crime or natural disasters).
• Keeping assets in a country politically and socially stable
• Keeping assets in countries that have favorable personal property laws (Switzerland, Singapore, Cayman Islands) 
• Keeping assets in countries that don't have a history of confiscation 
• Keeping assets in countries that haven't had issues with internal government turmoil

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Vault Storage
Facilities & Auditing

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Storage Facilities

The Bullion Vault and OneGold use security facilities that are under the respected VIA MAT INTERNATIONAL, part of Mat Securitas Express AG of Switzerland, one of Europe's largest and oldest armored transport and storage companies.

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Auditing

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Vault Storage
Fees

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Storage Fees

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Buying and Selling
Fees

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Buying Fees

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Selling Fees

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Cash & Physical Bullion
Withdraws

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Cash Withdraws

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Physical Bullion Withdraws

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Portfolio
Diversification

• High Risk = Penny Stocks, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, High Yield Bonds or Junk Bonds, Currency Trading, Crypto-Currency
• Moderate Risk = Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Small Cap & Mid Cap Stocks, Corporate Bonds, Real Estate, and Art
  
• Low Risk = Stock Indexes, Large Cap Stocks, Municipal Bonds, Annuities, Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), Money Market Funds
• Lowest Risk = U.S. Government Bonds, Gold & Silver 
  

Precious Metals
Portfolio Diversification

Precious metals generally make up 10 to 20% of the average portfolio; however, in comparison to your total investments, the question that many ask is:

How should I diversify my precious metals investments?

Ultimately, you know what works for you, what you can afford, and what form of precious metals works best for you.

There are several choices:

• Owning Physical Bullion at Home - ex: Coins, Bars, Rounds
  
• Owning Physical Bullion through a Vault Storage Bullion Company or Brokerage.
• Gold IRA
  
• Mining/Royalty Stocks - ex: WMP, NEM, RGLD, AG
  
• ETFs - e.g., GLD, SLV - metal is non-allocated and annual storage fees.
  

The chart below is a sample portfolio of how an individual may diversify 20% of their money in precious metals.

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