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Security Storage & Trade of Physical Precious Metals

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Security Storage & Tradeof Physical Precious Metals


Gold - Silver - Platinum - Palladium

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Why do HNWIs like physical gold & silver?

• Securing wealth on the long term

• Little confidence in the banking system or in banks

• Little confidence in financial markets

• Little confidence in currencies

• Little confidence in political decisions

• Possessing physical commodity, physical wealth

• Securing liquidity

• Hedging other investments / currencies

• Gold is an investment commodity and currency since 4000 years!

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Who are our clients?

• Individual Clients• Middle Class

• High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs)

• Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individual (UHNWIs)

• Corporate Clients• Companies, investing own assets

• Banks

• Insurance Companies

• Funds and Fund Management Companies

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What do we provide in detail?

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100% discretion……We and our storage facilities in Liechtenstein do not belong to the banking system.

• We are not subject to CRS (AEOI).

• We are not subject to the compliance rules of financial institutes.

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Safe and secure…• High-tech and high-security storage

facilities for• Precious Metals

• Diamonds

• Art

• Security Grade X (XCD)

• Swiss-designed and Swiss-built

• Six-eyes principle

• Location: Liechtenstein

• Own bonded warehouse within the building

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Sophisticated…• Segregated and allocated storage

• Insurance in the name of the client (Lloyd’s of London (XL Catlin) and Alliance)

• Insurance covers:• 100% + 20% increase of value

• Embezzlement (infidelity of employees)

• 24/7 access to your assets stored

• Physical delivery at any time

• Climate control for fine arts

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Segregated and allocated storage…• 100% allocated and segregated, stays in

private ownership

• Your assets are outside our companies’ balance sheets, no third-party risk, no insolvency risk

• Insured customer assets under storage more than 1.4 billion CHF (Dec. 2017)

• XL Catlin Insurance -> comprehensive insurance coverage incl. embezzlement

• World wide storage (HK, Singapore, London, Cayman Island, Panama etc.)

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Safety deposit boxes & vaults in Liechtenstein…• Vaults with Grade X (XCD)

security level

• Allianz Swiss insurance partner

• Own vault rooms for clients

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Bonded Warehouse in Liechtenstein…• In-house bonded warehouse

(within the building)

• Single vaults can be declared and assigned as bonded warehouse storage

• GRASP certified storage(Global Risk Assessment Platform , a risk assessment system for evaluating warehouse and museum facilities)

• Insurance from Helvetia and Basler Insurances

• Tailor made insurance for diamonds

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Global services…• Headquarter and main storage

facilities in Liechtenstein

• World wide storage (HK, Singapore, Zurich, London, Cayman Island, Panama etc.)

• Physical delivery possible at many global locations

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We sell…• only new and uncirculated gold, silver,

platinum and palladium

• generally from own stocks

• from refineries in Switzerland and Germany (Valcambi, Metalor, ArgorHeraeus etc.)

• LBMA standard or higher

• Gold: 999,9 Silver: min. 999,0

• Platinum: 999,5 Palladium: 999,5

• bars of all weights and coins

And: We re-purchase precious metals sold by us.

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A little comparison…

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Where are you better off?Us

• Gold etc. not in our assets (off-balance)

• Delivery of any quantities

• Insurance in the name of our clients

• 100% + 20% insurance coverage

• No GRS, no AEOI

• Not subject to compliance rules of banks

• Vault rooms, small vaults and security deposit boxes available

• Sales prices generally slightly below banks

• Storage of physical gold etc. generally cheaper than ETFs (for medium and larger amounts)

Banks

• Gold etc. in the assets of banks (> liquidity)

• Do not deliver other than small quantities

• Insurance coverage in the name of banks

• Generally under-insured

• Subject to GRS and AEOI

• Full compliance

• Storage (security deposit boxes and small vaults) almost not available

• Generally higher prices than us

• ETFs generally more expensive than physical storage

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USD EUR USD EUR2003 19,7% 0,5% 23,9% 4,1%2004 5,3% -2,7% 14,9% 6,1%2005 20,0% 36,8% 33,4% 52,1%2006 23,0% 10,6% 46,6% 31,7%2007 30,9% 18,4% 14,6% 3,6%2008 5,6% 10,5% -23,0% -19,5%2009 23,4% 20,7% 47,6% 44,3%2010 29,5% 38,8% 83,0% 96,2%2011 10,1% 14,2% -10,2% -6,9%2012 7,0% 4,9% 8,3% 6,2%2013 -28,3% -31,2% -35,9% -38,5%2014 -1,5% 12,1% -19,6% -8,5%2015 -10,4% -0,3% -11,5% -1,5%2016 9,1% 12,4% 17,3% 20,9%2017 13,6% -1,0% 7,1% -6,7%2018 2,0% -0,2% -4,0% -6,0%Ann. Average: 9,9% 9,0% 12,0% 11,1%

Gold Spot Silver Spot

Source: goldprice.org and silverprice.org, 08 April 2018

Gold and SilverGlobal Spot PricesDuring Last 15 Years

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Global Gold Spot Price / ROUBLE

Hedging inflation…5th June 2018

100%

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Global Silver Spot Price / ROUBLEHedging inflation…

5th June 2018

100%

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Talk to you soon!

The desire of gold is not for the gold.It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson(American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet, 1803 - 1882)

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