BullionVault lets you buy pure physical gold and silver at the lowest possible price
BullionVault gives private investors around the world access to the professional bullion markets. You can benefit from the lowest costs for buying, selling and storing gold and silver.
BullionVault is endorsed by the World Gold Council and is the world’s largest online investment gold service. We take care of $2.2 billion for more than 41,500 users.
Bars are stored and insured in your chosen vault in London, New York or Zurich. Because these are the world’s most secure bullion storage facilities the insurance costs you pay are very low.
You can sell at any time, without penalty, and your money will be wired the next business day. You can also withdraw your bars.
BullionVault is also quick and easy. You could own any quantity of physical bullion in about 2 hours.
On this page you'll learn who we are and how we get you the best bullion at the cheapest prices.
Buy gold and silver bullion at these live prices
- New York Vault
- London Vault
- Zurich Vault
Price last updated at 28/11/2012 07:57:05
Latest trades:
London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,590/kg [6:55:32 AM MST] London silver: 5.000kg @ £670/kg [6:55:29 AM MST] London silver: 0.852kg @ £670/kg [6:55:10 AM MST] Zurich gold: 0.100kg @ €42,840/kg [6:55:05 AM MST] London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,580/kg [6:54:55 AM MST]
London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,590/kg [6:55:32 AM MST] London silver: 5.000kg @ £670/kg [6:55:29 AM MST] London silver: 0.852kg @ £670/kg [6:55:10 AM MST] Zurich gold: 0.100kg @ €42,840/kg [6:55:05 AM MST] London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,580/kg [6:54:55 AM MST]
London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,590/kg [6:55:32 AM MST] London silver: 5.000kg @ £670/kg [6:55:29 AM MST] London silver: 0.852kg @ £670/kg [6:55:10 AM MST] Zurich gold: 0.100kg @ €42,840/kg [6:55:05 AM MST] London gold: 0.001kg @ £34,580/kg [6:54:55 AM MST]
Why Choose BullionVault?
- 1.World's biggest online bullion marketBullionVault manages some $1.6 billion worth of gold – more than the gold reserves of most countries.
- 2.Low rates for buying and sellingBullionVault charges a maximum of 0.50% to buy/sell gold or silver. Above $75,000 you pay less.
- 3.Deal in any sizeWe have over 41,500 users, who have invested between $100 and $8,000,000.
- 4.Next-day withdrawalsYou can sell for instant settlement at any time. Funds will usually arrive in your bank account the next working day.
- 5.Investment grade gold and silverAll gold and silver bought through Bullion Vault is part of a good delivery bar, which can be traded on the world's professional markets.
- 6.Allocated gold and silverYou own your gold and silver outright. It’s your legal property. We do not deal in unallocated gold or silver.
- 7.High-security vaultsYour gold and silver will be stored in your choice of professional bullion market vaults in Switzerland, the UK or the USA.
- 8.Daily AuditBullionVault is the only bullion business that publishes a daily audit online, which explicitly reconciles your gold and silver to formal third-party Bar Lists.
- 9.Wholesale storage rates and insurance
- 10.Set your own price
- 11.Deal in your own currencyYou can buy and sell in Euros and Pounds Sterling as well as US Dollars. This allows you to save the high cost of converting currency.
- 12.Deal at any time
- Endorsed and invested in by the World Gold CouncilThe World Gold Council is the market development organisation for the gold industry. Its 23 members comprise the world's leading gold mining companies. It acquired 11% of BullionVault in 2010 and recommends BullionVault for retail gold bullion.
- Full members of the London Bullion Market AssociationAs full members of the LBMA BullionVault is part of the world’s largest physical bullion marketplace.
- Winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise
BullionVault
It's free to open an account and registration takes less than a minute. There's no obligation to trade.
Open Account
You can transfer funds immediately, ready to buy your silver or gold. Standard proof of identity is then required within two weeks...
BullionVault:
Giving You Access To Professional Bullion Markets
BullionVault is the world's largest online investment gold service. More than 41,500 people from 122 countries use it to buy and own some $2.2 billion of gold and silver.
The Problem:
Why BullionVault
Was Set Up
Why BullionVault
Was Set Up
BullionVault was set up to solve one problem: it was very difficult for private individuals to buy, store and sell gold in a simple, safe and cost-effective way. Before BullionVault, there were two main obstacles for private individuals:
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They didn't have access to the professional bullion market.
The best prices for gold and silver are available on the professional bullion market, where dealers, refiners, government agencies and bullion banks trade.
icon The best prices for gold and silver are available on the professional bullion market, where dealers, refiners, government agencies and bullion banks trade.
But this market only deals gold in 400 oz good delivery bars, which cost over $600,000 each. The silver bars weigh 1,000 oz.
This puts the best prices out of reach of most private individuals.
They didn't have access to professional vaults.
Good delivery bars are stored in accredited vaults.
The vaults have a high minimum monthly charge, so you would need about 15 of these 400 oz gold bars, worth over $9,000,000, to make it economic for you to open an account yourself.
The large starting balance tends to make the system inaccessible to private customers.
Good delivery bars are stored in accredited vaults.
The vaults have a high minimum monthly charge, so you would need about 15 of these 400 oz gold bars, worth over $9,000,000, to make it economic for you to open an account yourself.
The large starting balance tends to make the system inaccessible to private customers.
The Solution:
How BullionVault
Fixes This
How BullionVault
Fixes This
With BullionVault you can access the professional market and buy part of a good delivery bar - or even whole bars. You'll benefit from the same low costs for buying and storing as the professionals, and you'll be participating in the deepest pool of physical gold and silver liquidity in the world.
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All BullionVault gold and silver is good delivery, which is the purest and most trusted form of bullion. It commands the highest prices when you sell.
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Recommended and endorsed for retail gold bullion by the World Gold Council, an investor in BullionVault.
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BullionVault gold is held fully allocated to BullionVault users. It is insured, and stored in your choice of location. The gold is your legal, physical property.
icon Opening an account is free and quick. There’s no commitment, so you can further explore the BullionVault system before choosing to invest.
What People Say About BullionVault
"BullionVault.com allows investors to buy gold at the lowest-possible markup and store it at the lowest-possible price."
Bill Bonner,
The Daily Reckoning
The Daily Reckoning
"World's No.1 gold ownership and trading service online."
CNBC
Fast Money
Fast Money
"BullionVault opened the professional bullion market and good delivery bullion bars to retail participation."
Sramana Mitra on Technology
"BullionVault enables anybody to buy and sell high quality gold."
Sunday Times
BullionVault
It's free to open an account and registration takes less than a minute. There's no obligation to trade.
Open Account
You can transfer funds immediately, ready to buy your silver or gold. Standard proof of identity is then required within two weeks...
How BullionVault
How BullionVault Cuts The Cost Of Buying Gold And Silver
BullionVault is the world's biggest online bullion market. Economies of scale mean you can buy and store precious metals at close to wholesale prices.
The professional good delivery system gets you big savings, and so too does the internet. BullionVault connects buyers and sellers from all over the world. They can all quote prices to each other when they wish to buy or sell; and so can you. Like any exchange this price competition forces everyone - including BullionVault itself - to quote highly competitive prices, and you always get the best quoted price, from whoever is quoting it.
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The ownership cost for larger users ($1m) works out at just 0.17% per annum over the same five year period.
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At BullionVault, there is deep gold liquidity in Dollars, Sterling and Euros. This means you'll get the best price no matter which currency you prefer.
Lowest costs
The ownership cost for the average BullionVault user who owns gold for 5 years works out at 0.32% per annum - which includes all dealing, storage and insurance costs.The ownership cost for larger users ($1m) works out at just 0.17% per annum over the same five year period.
Avoiding the high cost of currency conversion
Most banks charge 3 to 4 percent when buying or selling foreign currency.At BullionVault, there is deep gold liquidity in Dollars, Sterling and Euros. This means you'll get the best price no matter which currency you prefer.
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According to the insurance actuaries who evaluate them the professional bullion vaults are the safest place in the world to store gold, so insurance costs much less. We include it in your storage fee, which saves you money and a great deal of time.
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Saving on insurance too
It's tempting to think something is only safe when we look after it ourselves. But insurers rate privately held gold as very high risk, so arranging insurance is both difficult and expensive.According to the insurance actuaries who evaluate them the professional bullion vaults are the safest place in the world to store gold, so insurance costs much less. We include it in your storage fee, which saves you money and a great deal of time.
How do our storage rates compare?
The annual management cost of the major ETFs is 0.4%, which is over 3 times higher than BullionVault's 0.12% storage rate for gold.
Allocated storage at a bank would usually cost around 10 times our allocated storage rate.
What People Say About BullionVault
"Dramatically cuts the cost of gold ownership."
Financial Times
"[BullionVault] reduces the cost of buying and holding gold."
Bloomberg
"[They] offer what's called 'allocated' and very secure storage at a relatively low cost."
Investors Chronicle
"[BullionVault] provides storage and insurance for less than 0.12% per year. At that rate, it would take over eight years to pay 1% in storage and insurance costs."
BankRate.com
BullionVault
It's free to open an account and registration takes less than a minute. There's no obligation to trade.
Open Account
You can transfer funds immediately, ready to buy your silver or gold. Standard proof of identity is then required within two weeks...
Security and Safety Issues
When Buying, Selling, &
When Buying, Selling, &
Storing Gold & Silver Online
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High Security International Vaulting Options
BullionVault maintains the ownership records, and we publish on-line the daily register of owners. All users can see their private holding publicly listed against their alias - which of course only they know. The register's total matches the bar list total, produced independently by the vault operators, and published alongside our register.
No other bullion business provides this daily and independent client-by-client proof that the right amount of bullion is in the vault.
icon Your choice of London (UK), New York (USA) & Zurich (Switzerland)
For your safety we separate the roles of storing the bullion and keeping the records. Your bullion is vaulted in formally recognised professional vaults, managed by vault operators who are leading providers of precious metals vaulting and transportation services.BullionVault maintains the ownership records, and we publish on-line the daily register of owners. All users can see their private holding publicly listed against their alias - which of course only they know. The register's total matches the bar list total, produced independently by the vault operators, and published alongside our register.
No other bullion business provides this daily and independent client-by-client proof that the right amount of bullion is in the vault.
The World's Most Reliable Gold And Silver Bullion
They are the only form of gold automatically trusted upon receipt by professional buyers.
Once a year we send in independent specialist assayers who inspect the bullion and report to our auditors, who then publish the report on their own website for your inspection.
We are completely confident regarding the quality of the bullion in our care, and provide a full, permanent, 100% guarantee of its quality.
BullionVault gold bars are all of known weight and purity, which exceeds 99.5%. As with the rest of the professional bullion market only the pure gold content (gross weight * purity) is traded and recorded. The gold in your BullionVault account is therefore 100% pure.
Silver is different. Good delivery silver bars are refined to 99.9% purity and traded at gross weight. The good delivery silver in your account is 99.9% pure.
icon Good delivery bullion massively reduces the risk of fraud
Good delivery bars are manufactured by accredited refiners who are regularly subjected to double-blind tests by independent assayers. The bars spend their lives in accredited storage facilities and are transported only by accredited couriers.They are the only form of gold automatically trusted upon receipt by professional buyers.
Once a year we send in independent specialist assayers who inspect the bullion and report to our auditors, who then publish the report on their own website for your inspection.
We are completely confident regarding the quality of the bullion in our care, and provide a full, permanent, 100% guarantee of its quality.
BullionVault gold bars are all of known weight and purity, which exceeds 99.5%. As with the rest of the professional bullion market only the pure gold content (gross weight * purity) is traded and recorded. The gold in your BullionVault account is therefore 100% pure.
Silver is different. Good delivery silver bars are refined to 99.9% purity and traded at gross weight. The good delivery silver in your account is 99.9% pure.
No Counterparty Exposure
With this speed of settlement you gain enormously in flexibility if ever you need to act quickly - for example to move your property urgently across international borders. On BullionVault you can switch your tangible property between London, New York and Zurich in seconds. That's much faster than your bank.
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Your gold and silver are already safely in your chosen vault when you go online to buy. You pay the seller immediately with the cleared funds that you previously deposited into the BullionVault Client Money trust account. Your money becomes theirs, and their gold becomes yours. BullionVault guarantees that the deal, payment, and receipt of gold happen together, or not at all.With this speed of settlement you gain enormously in flexibility if ever you need to act quickly - for example to move your property urgently across international borders. On BullionVault you can switch your tangible property between London, New York and Zurich in seconds. That's much faster than your bank.
Due Diligence
Please check our references
We encourage a review of our reference and partner websites which have been collected under our summary FAQs below.
What People Say About BullionVault
"It's easy to buy and sell small amounts, and you get the benefit of owning physical gold without the hassle of actually finding somewhere to store it."
MSN Money
"BullionVault.com [is] a leading online service for gold bullion trading and ownership"
- Market Watch
"The most secure way to invest in physical gold."
Daily Telegraph
BullionVault
It's free to open an account and registration takes less than a minute. There's no obligation to trade.
Open Account
You can transfer funds immediately, ready to buy your silver or gold. Standard proof of identity is then required within two weeks...
How BullionVault
Compares To Other Ways
Compares To Other Ways
Of Buying Gold & Silver
BullionVault compared to
coins and small bars
coins and small bars
- Cost
- Coins and small bars: Dealers usually sell gold coins and small bars at about 7% more than BullionVault gold. They also tend to buy back at a discount of about 1%. Be careful if you are advised that gold coins are rare. Most of them are not, and carry no collectible value.
- BullionVault: BullionVault prices can be compared reliably against the published spot price. Our gold buying and selling prices are usually well within 0.2% of spot, and silver within 1%.
- Stock liquidity and settlement
- Coins and small bars: Maintaining a stock of gold coins is expensive and ties up a lot of financial resources, so dealers and their supply chain have to estimate likely demand. But demand for coins is very unpredictable, and coin retailers are often short of stock for weeks when people are buying, and have too much stock when people are selling. They adjust prices accordingly - which can be costly for you.
- BullionVault: BullionVault has the resources to hold nearly half a tonne of good delivery gold bullion in stock, and four tonnes of silver. Re-stocking takes only 48 hours. Meanwhile users who wish to deal in whole bars have full access to the spot market itself, where like us they can deal sums up to $10 million for 48 hour settlement into the vault.
- Storage and insurance
- Coins and small bars: Although home storage is free it is not usually the wise geopolitical option, and you will probably need to arrange your own insurance. For gold this is likely to be 10 times as much as BullionVault's combined storage and insurance fee of 0.12% for gold.
- BullionVault: Overseas gold storage is straightforward to implement and is low cost. More details.
BullionVault compared to
exchange-traded funds
exchange-traded funds
- Physical ownership
- ETFs: With ETFs you never actually own physical gold. According to their trust deeds some ETFs are not even backed by gold; they are designed to track the gold price using complex derivatives.
- BullionVault: We don't make something complex out of something simple. You own your gold.
- Storage and insurance
- ETFs: With ETFs, you would pay a storage fee of around 0.40%, and most ETF gold is not insured, even within that fee.
- BullionVault: Storage and insurance costs just 0.12% per annum for gold. More details.
- Jurisdiction
- ETFs: The huge majority of ETF gold is stored in London and New York. The ETF manager chooses the jurisdiction – you don't.
- BullionVault: We believe a choice of storage jurisdictions is important - as is the ability to switch. We let you choose. About 75% of our users choose Zurich, in Switzerland.
- Dealing and settlement flexibility
- ETFs: ETFs are traded on major stock exchanges, which tend to be open 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. They settle to your stockbroker in two or three days, who then settles with you.
- BullionVault: We are open for dealing 24/7 with instantaneous settlement to your BV account. A requested withdrawal to your bank account will usually be sent and arrive the following business day.
What People Say About BullionVault
"A well-established online gold investment service: signup is easy, low minimums, premiums are cheap, very close to spot, fully allocated."
Jeff Clark, Casey Research, 'The Best Online Purchase and Storage Programs'
"An online gold market with vaults storing more gold than the central bank reserves of Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland and Qatar combined."
Wall Street Journal
BullionVault
It's free to open an account and registration takes less than a minute. There's no obligation to trade.
Open Account
You can transfer funds immediately, ready to buy your silver or gold. Standard proof of identity is then required within two weeks...
BullionVault
FAQs
Contact Us
Phone
- UK and International: +44 (0)208-6000-130
- US and Canada toll-free: 1-888-908-2858
- Opening Hours: 9am to 10pm (UK), 4am to 5pm (EST), Mon to Fri
Email support@BullionVault.com
Address BullionVault (Galmarley Ltd)
Landmark House (12th Floor)
Blacks Road
Hammersmith
London W6 9DP
United Kingdom
Registered in Great Britain: 4943684
Landmark House (12th Floor)
Blacks Road
Hammersmith
London W6 9DP
United Kingdom
Registered in Great Britain: 4943684
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With BullionVault you may buy physical gold and silver by the gram at current market prices.
ReplyDeleteYour gold and silver is stored in one of 5 secure worldwide vaults. And you may exchange it online or take away physical bars.