Custody, logistics and transfer process for physical precious metals
How GBI holds, moves and verifies physical precious metals, from collection to allocated custody.
Is It Too
Late to
Own Gold?
Gold is up 109% in two years. Silver is up 201%. And most advisors still have zero allocation.
Trey Reik, GBI's Managing Member and precious metals economist, makes the structural case for why the rally isn't over — and what it means for your clients' portfolios.
Is It Too Late
to Own Gold?
Gold is up 109% in two years. Silver is up 201%. And most advisors still have zero allocation.
Trey Reik, GBI's Managing Member and precious metals economist, makes the structural case for why the rally isn't over — and what it means for your clients' portfolios.
What's Inside
- How positions are held: allocated, not pooled, commingled or rehypothecated
- Vaulting, insurance and audit
- How metal reaches the vault, by shipping or armored pick-up
- The seven steps of a transfer, from request to credit on the account
- What GBI confirms before any transfer
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What's Inside
Inside the report you'll find:
- Why gold's three biggest long-term drivers — deteriorating US finances, anti-dollar sentiment, and eroding Fed credibility — reached critical tipping points in 2025
- How the 60/40 portfolio model broke down and why gold is replacing bonds as the diversifier of choice
- What Dalio, Dimon, Gundlach, and Goldman are allocating — and why most institutions are still massively underweight
- Why the January selloff was a flush, not a reversal — and what the data says about where gold goes from here