Royal Mint opens gold investment to SIPP and SSAS savers

Gold is 'standard asset'

Jenna Towler
clock • 1 min read

Pension savers will be able to buy gold from the Royal Mint for the first time.

Self-invested personal pension (SIPP) and small sell-administered scheme (SSAS) investors will be able to buy gold from the Royal Mint through its bullion trading platform. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) added physical gold bullion to its list of standard assets in 2014. Talbot and Muir head of pensions technical Claire Trott said: "It is great that Royal Mint are making investing in gold a simpler thing for investors to do. We do from time to time have enquiries from people wanting to do this because of the security they see in physical gold. "We already have a relationship...

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