Physical Gold Storage – But How?

Unallocated gold storage, allocated gold storage, segregated gold storage or allocated and segregated gold storage – these terms describe the form of storage and the legal relation of a gold owner with his or her physical gold purchased and stored.

The same terms are of course also used for the storage of physical silver, platinum or palladium, or other items. To make the text easy to read, we will focus on the term gold storage, representing the storage of other precious metals or items as well.

Buyers of physical gold or silver or other precious metals are often not aware of the terms "unallocated", "allocated", "segregated" and "allocated and segregated" storage. Or, they do not really know what those terms describe. And in many cases, they do not know the legal and virtual consequences of those different forms of gold storage.