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Old 06-12-2025, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by opinionist View Post
Physical gold/silver has no counterparty risk, unlike every other asset.
True, sort of. Do you store it yourself? If not you have counterparty risk. And storage costs.

If you self-store, you have storage risk.

Both ways, you pay excessive spreads.

I prefer Gold ETFs for those reasons.