First-Time Gold Buyers +159% at West's No.1
- Between them, BullionVault users own more gold than do most of the world's central banks, more than 38.2 tonnes worth over $1.9bn (£1.5bn, €1.7bn);
- All told, they traded $119.5m of physical gold this August (£98.3m, €108.8m, ¥12.7bn);
- Of the 76,785 people from over 175 countries using BullionVault since it opened in 2005, nearly 9-in-10 live in the US, the European Union, Japan or Canada.