Institutional Asset Management – Family Offices, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Pension Funds and Endowments
Gold Bullion International is the world's best PHYSICAL precious metals trading and operations platform for the institutional asset management industry. GBI’s technology allows for buying, storing, and selling of physical gold, silver, platinum, or palladium on a state-of-the art electronic trading portal. All physical holdings can be reported into an institution’s existing reporting software or fully integrated on an order management system.
Through GBI, Institutional Investors (pension funds, endowments, hedge funds etc.) can store their physical precious metals holdings in the safest and most cost effective manner.
- Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium (both Bars and Coins)
- Storage is offered in four locations (London, New York, Zurich and Salt Lake)
- Bullion is stored at non-bank vaulting facilities
- Title is held in the client/fund's name, removing all counterparties between the owner and the custodian
- Holdings are fully insured for replacement value
- Big Four Accounting firm physically verifies each bar on a quarterly basis
- Completely integrated solution for seamless trading – logistics, reporting, statements etc.
Advantages of investing in physical precious metals through GBI:
- Remove a layer of counter party risk (storage provided at non-banking vaulting providers; not large financial institutions)
- Diversify portfolio holdings into real assets
- Diversify holdings geographically by storing in various locations around the world
- Best price execution (higher quality product with pricing comparable to most ETFs)
- No 13F filings (as with paper assets); physical precious metals are not securities
- Better liquidity (liquidity of the underlying and not of a share in a trust)
- Delivery to virtually anywhere in the world
Recent Examples of Institutions opting for converting to physical metals: