LONDON, 15 August 2015 – The Financial Times' award-winning personal finance supplement, FT Money, today names BullionVault as a secure way for private investors to buy and trade physical gold as their own property.
Contrasting BullionVault's low fees with the $100,000 minimum and 1.5% annual charges of one London-based gold investment fund, "BullionVault is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, but relies on English property law" to protect its users.
Exchange-traded trust funds, on the other hand, "involve too many intermediaries and do not allow for the direct holding of gold," says FT commodities correspondent Henry Sanderson.
"Gold always benefits in 'risk off' conditions," Sanderson also tells FT Money's weekly podcast. So "retail investors have been buying this year on sites such as BullionVault."
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