International Gold Safekeeping Management Announces Its Launch

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- International Gold Safekeeping Management, LLC (IGSM), a provider of precious metals management and storage at some of the most secure and attractive vaults worldwide, announces the launch of its company. The firm offers a network of more than 10 top-class vaults in safe and geographically diverse locations and a management team with extensive precious metals expertise.

IGSM provides a comprehensive solution addressing the risks and costs inherent in direct ownership of precious metals. IGSM-sanctioned vaults are located in multiple countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Switzerland, Singapore and New Zealand, providing investors the ability to spread their holdings across the globe and minimizing risks due to economic or political factors in any one location. Additionally, IGSM has negotiated optional and institutionally-priced insurance for precious metals investors that covers many of the exclusions in typical vault policies. The management company utilizes top institutional trading desks and refineries for the purchase and sale of investors' metal, thus providing less expensive institutional pricing directly to the investor.

"With the value of precious metals increasing and investors diversifying their financial assets, we discovered the need for a company that could offer a unique combination of management, geographically-diversified storage, expertise, and customer service. We conducted extensive research and onsite visits to vaults around the world in order to select the best-in-class vaults for our investors," said Brian Sneed, principal for International Gold Safekeeping Management. "We provide investors with detailed information regarding our vaults and assist them with storage decisions tailored to their preferences and portfolio needs. IGSM enables investors to maintain 100 percent individual ownership and control of their gold and precious metals."  

In addition to a highly customized approach that seeks to minimize storage related risks, IGSM offers its investors complete transparency. Through a secure website, IGSM provides up-to-date investor portfolio information. The investor is able to monitor the status of their precious metal and obtain pertinent information on location, insurance and other factors that affect their investment decisions for vaulting precious metal. Additionally, IGSM has partnered with a "Big Four" firm to provide regular audits. The auditing firm accounts for specific serial-numbered metal bars with onsite visits and provides accounting reports directly to the investor with all physical accounts, showing details of the observed precious metal and a photo of each bar.

"Our goal is to carefully manage metal for our investors and to make sure our investors are treated fairly in the marketplace," added Sneed. "The management team's job is to provide our investors with the ability to mobilize, diversify and monetize their metal quickly and inexpensively. We also do not charge commissions or profit from any investor transactions. The feedback from the sophisticated precious metal investors that utilize our product has been extremely positive."

About International Gold Safekeeping Management, LLC ("IGSM")
International Gold Safekeeping Management is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas and manages diversified storage of physical precious metals at major bank vaults and secure private vaults around the globe. IGSM focuses on protecting investors' assets by utilizing safe and geographically diverse locations to store investors' metal. IGSM offers a diversified group of more than 10 major vaults which all have unique characteristics. IGSM assists investors when choosing vault location(s) and vault characteristics that best fit their physical precious metal vaulting and trading needs. Minimum investment is $250,000. More information can be found at www.goldsafekeeping.com or by calling IGSM at 646-397-7480.

SOURCE International Gold Safekeeping Management