Is my metal allocated or pooled?

Allocated and segregated, recorded by serial where bars carry them, and stated in the agreement rather than on a website.

Do you ever lend or lease client metal?

No. It is never lent, leased, pledged or used as collateral. It sits in the vault.

Can I come and look at it?

Yes, by appointment, and you may attend the audit. A holding you cannot verify is a promise rather than custody.

No, and no vault contents anywhere are, including at a bank. Coverage is arranged separately through Lloyd's of London.

Do I get the same bars back?

Yes, checked against your signed inventory. Ask any vault whether they can settle in cash instead — that clause matters.

Why is silver more expensive to store?

You pay for volume and handling. The same value in silver takes roughly seventy times the space of gold.

Do you offer anonymous storage?

No. Every client is identified and valid legal process is honoured. We publish that position.

What if the company fails?

Metal is held as your property in our custody, allocated and identifiable as yours. It is not our asset and is never pledged.

Fort Lauderdale

Allocated and Segregated Are Two Different Words

Allocated means specific bars are recorded as yours. Segregated means they are stored apart from everyone else's. Plenty of storage is one and not the other, and a surprising amount is neither — which is why the paperwork at intake matters more than the vault door.

Arrange storage Call (954) 565-7233

Come and see the vault before you move anything. No account relationship is required to visit.

Allocated

Your specific bars. Not a claim on a pool

Highest UL vault rating available

1983

Operating on the Galt Ocean Mile since

Audited

Independent verification, and you can attend

What we store

Six kinds of holding. Each page names when storing here is the wrong answer.

Gold Bullion

Gold is the easiest metal to store and the one where the storage arrangement matters most, because a large value occupies very little space and is completely fungible once it leaves your sight.

Bulk Silver

Silver is where storage economics become real. The same value in silver occupies roughly seventy times the volume of gold, and volume is what a vault charges for.

Sovereign Coins

Coins introduce something bars do not: condition is part of the value, so how they are handled and what they sit in matters as much as where they sit.

Platinum & Palladium

Platinum and palladium store like gold and trade in much thinner markets, which makes documentation and provenance disproportionately important.

Dealer & Business Holdings

A dealer's storage problem is different from an investor's. The metal moves constantly, it has to be countable at short notice, and somebody else's accountant will eventually ask about it.

Leaving Pooled or Overseas Storage

A common reason people call: they have read their storage agreement properly for the first time and discovered it says something other than what they assumed.

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What to ask a vault

What to ask any vault

Five questions to put to us and to every competitor. The answers vary more than the marketing does.

Is It Allocated and Segregated?

Three words that sound similar and mean very different things. This is the question that matters most and the one most often answered vaguely.

How Is It Insured?

Every vault says "fully insured". The useful questions are who the insurer is, what the limit is, what is excluded, and who is the named insured.

Who Audits It?

An audit performed by the custodian on its own holdings is a stock check. Independence is what makes it an audit.

What If the Vault Fails?

The uncomfortable question, and the one that most cleanly separates arrangements that differ only in marketing.

How Do I Get It Back?

Easy to get metal in. The arrangement is defined by how easy it is to get out, and that is the part nobody demonstrates before you join.

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The difference

What we will put in writing

Allocated and segregated, which are two different words

Allocated means specific bars are recorded as yours. Segregated means they are stored apart from everyone else's. Plenty of storage is one and not the other, and a surprising amount is neither. Ask any vault which they mean, and get the answer in writing.

It is not lent, leased or rehypothecated

Your metal sits in a vault. It is not used as collateral by us, not lent to anyone, and not part of any financing arrangement. That sounds obvious. It is not universally true in this industry, which is exactly why it is worth stating.

You can come and look at it

Inspection by appointment, and you can attend an audit. A storage arrangement you are not permitted to physically verify is a promise rather than a custody service.

We are not a bank and we say so

No deposits, no lending, no banking services. Stored contents are not FDIC insured — no vault contents anywhere are, including in a bank. Coverage is arranged separately through Lloyd's of London.

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Arrange storage

Tell us what you hold and roughly how much. Come and see the vault before you move anything — no account relationship is required to visit.

If a safe deposit box would serve you better than a bulk arrangement, we rent those too and will say so.

Common questions

Is my metal allocated or pooled?: Allocated and segregated, recorded by serial where bars carry them, and stated in the agreement rather than on a website.
Do you ever lend or lease client metal?: No. It is never lent, leased, pledged or used as collateral. It sits in the vault.
Can I come and look at it?: Yes, by appointment, and you may attend the audit. A holding you cannot verify is a promise rather than custody.
Is it FDIC insured?: No, and no vault contents anywhere are, including at a bank. Coverage is arranged separately through Lloyd's of London.
Do I get the same bars back?: Yes, checked against your signed inventory. Ask any vault whether they can settle in cash instead — that clause matters.
Why is silver more expensive to store?: You pay for volume and handling. The same value in silver takes roughly seventy times the space of gold.
Do you offer anonymous storage?: No. Every client is identified and valid legal process is honoured. We publish that position.
What if the company fails?: Metal is held as your property in our custody, allocated and identifiable as yours. It is not our asset and is never pledged.

Visit us

Come and see where the metal sits

Address: 3562 N Ocean Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Galt Ocean Mile
Hours: Mon–Fri 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Phone: (954) 565-7233

Get directions

Read our Google reviews — worth a look before you hand anyone your property.

Tours are by appointment

You are welcome to see the vault before you decide anything. Tours are private and booked in advance — you will see the door, the man-trap entry and the box room, and nobody else will be walking through.

We are on the Galt Ocean Mile, on North Ocean Boulevard between Oakland Park Boulevard and Commercial Boulevard. If you are crossing one of the Intracoastal bridges, allow a few extra minutes — an opening adds ten.

No account relationship is required to visit. Call(954) 565-7233 and we will put a time aside.

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Where to store gold: the six real options

A bank box, a home safe, a large depository, the dealer who sold it, a pooled account, or offshore. Each page names what that option does better than us.

A Large Depository

Delaware Depository, Brink’s Global Services and the state-chartered depositories do this at a scale we do not attempt. For a large part of the market they are the correct answer, and one requirement settles the question outright.

A Bank Safe Deposit Box

A bank box is cheap, familiar and for a lot of holdings entirely sufficient. We rent boxes too, and we will point you at one rather than sell you something larger. But two things about bank boxes surprise almost everyone.

Storage Where You Bought It

Buy the metal and it never ships — it appears in an account and can be sold in a click. The convenience is real and the liquidity is genuinely better than ours. The question is what happens when your seller, your price-setter and your custodian are the same company.

A Home Safe

A good safe, properly bolted down, is a reasonable answer for a modest holding and costs nothing after you buy it. Two details decide whether it stays reasonable as the holding grows: what your policy actually covers, and what a house fire does to metal.

Pooled or Unallocated Storage

Pooled storage is cheaper, and for someone treating metal as a position rather than a possession that is a fair trade honestly made. But the difference between the two is not a service tier. It is the difference between owning a bar and being owed one.

Offshore Storage

Switzerland and Singapore have deep, mature vaulting industries and long-settled law on bailment. If your specific concern is exposure to one government, offshore storage addresses something no domestic vault can. It also brings obligations that are not ours to advise you on.

Tell us what needs to move.

What, from where, and roughly when. You do not need an inventory to start the conversation, and if the job belongs with an armored carrier we will say so on the call.

Arrange storage Call (954) 565-7233