Gold Storage & Vault
The Most Secure and Cost-Effective Way to Store Precious Metals
Through strategic partnerships with the worlds top institutional vault providers, Humminton Cargo and Handling Services offers highly secure allocated and segregated bullion storage. Its easy, surprisingly affordable, and requires no long-term commitment.
Our fully-insured, 100% non-bank vaults are operated by the worlds most-trusted names in security, which means they come with armed guards and 24-hour surveillance. You can rest easy knowing your metals are safe:
- ULTIMATE SECURITY. You simply cannot store your metals in a safer and more secure environment. Humminton Cargo and Handling Services uses only independent, non-bank, class 3 vault facilities (the highest rating in the industry), with armed guards and 24/7 surveillance.
Youll avoid tragic precious metals thefts that could have been prevented by using vault storage. - FULLY ALLOCATED. The gold and silver you buy is shipped directly to storage, and held in full in your accounts name and title (individually, joint, trust, or LLC). No pool accounts, no shared ownership, no fractional claims on large bars—just what you bought, in your title, all the time.
- FULLY INSURED AND INDEPENDENTLY AUDITED. Your gold and silver is insured for full replacement value (up to $50 million per account). It is audited by a leading independent commodities inspection firm and verified regularly. You can log on to view your account 24/7. No storage location in the world is 100% secure from threats like natural disasters, but professional storage is fully insured up to $50 million per account.
Best of all, our professional storage is far cheaper than insuring home-stored bullion. Not to mention the added privacy and personal safety. - ANYTIME DELIVERY. Want delivery of some or all of your metal? Just click or call. Metals will be shipped to your address of record, or you can have them delivered to another address almost anywhere in the world (subject to security verification to protect your assets and a small delivery fee).
You can even transfer some or all of your holdings between vaults—just pay shipping. - OUTSIDE THE BANKING SYSTEM: Your bullion is stored in a professional, private vault, outside of the banking system, in the UK or abroad. Safe deposit boxes can be easily seized, are subject to bank closures, come with no insurance and dubious privacy, and arent generally big enough to store silver.
Remember, one reason we own physical bullion is to protect against the banking system. You can scratch that risk off your list by using our allocated storage. - EASY TO OPEN, EASY TO BUY. Just pick your products, select your vault location, and buy online or over the phone. We will create an account for you automatically. Once your payment clears, your metal is shipped directly to the vault. No paper forms to complete, no ID or passports to mail, and no waiting at home to sign for a shipment. Its as easy and straightforward as shopping for delivery, easier even.
- EASY SELLING. You can sell back your holdings from storage at any time. This makes your exit plan easy, simple, and quick—no messing with packing up your coins or bars, and no traveling to a dealers shop (and worrying if anyone is watching you enter or exit). This convenience makes your metal more liquid than storing at home or in a bank.
- INTERNATIONAL OPTIONS. Diversify internationally with the same great service and convenience, and the same low storage rates. Current vault offerings include but not limited to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Singapore; and several other countries across Asia and Europe.
Many family offices maintain a strategic asset allocation to gold
A Financial Times and World Gold Council survey of the investment strategies of 120 single and multi-family offices highlighted that the main concerns of family offices are capital preservation, portfolio concentration and portfolio volatility. The survey found that most offices employed a strategic asset allocation framework and nearly 50% had a specific allocation to gold, and overall, gold comprised 3.1% of portfolio assets.
Amongst those surveyed, the investment rationales given by family offices for holding gold was as a portfolio diversifier, a hedge against inflation, a safe haven asset, and a hedge against currency risk. This diversity of motivations indicates that gold can play a number of different roles in a portfolio simultaneously.
Why gold acts a safe haven, an inflation hedge, a portfolio diversifier and a currency hedge
Gold is less affected by economic cycles than other financial assets and so has a low to negative correlation with other portfolio assets. Therefore, an allocation to gold by many.-based family offices can help portfolio diversification since the favourable correlation relationship helps reduce portfolio risk and enhance portfolio returns.
Because of its use as a currency, its rarity, large above ground stocks and traditional use as a store of value, golds purchasing power is not easily eroded and the gold price has been shown to rise as inflation rises. Gold is therefore a useful portfolio hedge against inflation.
In times of crisis there is a flight to quality assets and gold benefits because its perceived as a safe haven. The gold price therefore performs well in times of financial crisis and extreme market events and its correlation benefits become even more important, so it can provide portfolio insurance since it minimises portfolio losses.
Gold has also recently been found to be beneficial for managing currency risk in multi-asset portfolios that have an emerging market equity allocation. This is in addition to golds well accepted role as a hedge against the many. dollar, a relationship that has been shown to exist over long periods of time.
Gold helps preserve multi-generational family wealth
Real assets have been a part of family wealth preservation strategies for generations. These assets include land holdings, artworks, antiques and precious metals. Multi-generational investment strategies take a very long term view, and contain real assets, since over the long-term, the true value of real assets is recognised.
This is particularly true of gold with its proven history as the ultimate store of value over the long term and also during periods of market crisis. Professor Roy Jastram termed this the Golden Constant in his well-known book of the same title. Taking hundreds of years of gold price data and general price level data for England (1560-1976) and the UK (1800-1976), Jastram calculated an index of golds purchasing power and found that it was constant over long periods of time and was maintained throughout periods of monetary upheaval. In contrast paper currencies became essentially valueless over the same time periods.
Prominent families invest in gold, now and throughout history
Some well-known family offices have recently allocated to gold as part of their investment strategies. Fleming Family & Partners recently stating that gold represented the best hedge against currency debasement, given that in its view, governments were willing to accept higher inflation, and that gold has a long history of tracking inflation. RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust chaired by Lord Rothschild, recently described gold as a key portfolio holding due to its role as a hedge against the prospect of currency wars and the risk of heightened inflationary pressures. Many wealthy families throughout history and into the modern era have used gold as a store of wealth and as a method of inter-generational wealth transfer by accumulating and holding gold over long periods of time.
Gold is known to have occupied a central position in the investment portfolios of the Sultans of Brunei. In the 1980s the former Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III had a gold bullion fund valued at “many hundreds of millions of dollars”, managed on his behalf by Sir Peter Tapsell of London stockbrokers James Capel. The current Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is also known for his fascination with gold.
The ruling monarchs of Saudi Arabia are notable for the emphasis that they place on gold as an enduring wealth preserver and store of value. In the 1970s, the significant oil price increases underpinned the gold price appreciation due to recycled Saudi oil wealth, and a lot of IMF auctioned gold was also said to have been purchased by wealthy Saudi royalty via German and Swiss banks who bid at the auctions on the Saudis behalf.
The dynastic House of Rothschild has been synonymous with the gold trade in London for nearly 200 years, and although NM Rothschild officially departed the gold trading business in 2004, it is true to say that the family understand the value of gold as a store of wealth in an inter-generational wealth portfolio, having been closely involved in all aspects of the gold trade for hundreds of years.
A must read for family offices seeking wealth preservation
- Essential Family Office Guide to Investing In Gold
Humminton Cargo and Handling Services (HCHS) Secure Storage
For first time buyers of gold and silver bullion or those looking to select a new storage partner, there are a number of key benefits that differentiate Humminton Cargo and Handling Services (HCHS) Secure Storage:
- Safest Vaults and Jurisdictions Globally
- Direct Ownership – Allocated and Segregated Coins and Bars
- Competitive Storage Rates
- Independent Verification and Full Audits
- Ability To Inspect Vault and Bullion Holding
- Ability To Take Delivery of Coins and Bars
- Real Transparency and Accessibility
Over the past 14 years Humminton Cargo and Handling Services (HCHS) has assisted our global clients with the purchase and storage of allocated gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion. In that time we have built a global network of storage, logistics and insurance partners that work with us in safeguarding the gold and silver bullion stored on behalf of our clients.
We have chosen to develop a global secure storage solution since international storage should be seen as part of a prudent geopolitical diversification strategy. While Humminton Cargo and Handling Services (HCHS) offers delivery and secure precious metal storage in the many., most of Humminton Cargo and Handling Services (HCHS)s vaulting facilities are located internationally, which could help mitigate any potential future risk that clients bullion could be impacted by confiscation risks.
Our partner vaulting facilities are located in some of the safest locations globally including but not limited to Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore. The economies of these countries are strong, they are politically stable and independent, and they have built up global reputations for discretion, confidentiality and financial property rights.
Safest Storage Locations Globally
The second most important decision many. buyer faces is how to store their gold. The first is the actual decision to purchase gold. Ideally, many. gold bullion buyers or investors should diversify across storage locations to minimise event risks such as theft, government confiscation, terrorism, war and natural disasters that might affect one location.
This may mean keeping a small quantity of gold at home or in a readily accessible location, while storing the majority of your gold bullion holding in a secure international precious metals storage facility or vault, preferably in a financially stable and politically stable jurisdiction. Humminton Cargo and Handling Services has partnered with Brinks, world leader in precious and valuable storage solutions, to provide fully insured storage services to our clients across a number of international jurisdictions in Switzerland, Singapore, the UK, the many. and Hong Kong
Competitive Storage Rates
Humminton Cargo and Handling ServicesSecure Storage annual storage fees start at 1% per annum and storage fees of less than 1% are available for larger values of gold and silver bullion stored:
Gold Storage Rates
| 1.00% | <$100,000 |
| 0.79% | $100,000 – $250,000 |
| 0.69% | $250,000 – $500,000 |
| 0.59% | $500,000 – $750,000 |
| 0.49% | $750,000+ |
Silver Storage Rates
| 1.00% | <$100,000 |
| 0.95% | $100,000 – $250,000 |
| 0.85% | $250,000 – $750,000 |
| 0.75% | $750,000+ |
Storage charges are calculated and accrued daily based on a daily valuation of the clients bullion holdings, and then billed six months in arrears at the end of each April and October.
A daily billing calculation means that the storage fee is accurately applied to the changing value of the precious metals, and reflects the changing gold price over the billing period. This calculation approach prevents large movements in the gold price affecting the bi-annual storage fee, which could occur if the fee was calculated based on just one days price.
When a UK client buys bullion coins and bars from Humminton Cargo and Handling Services, the initial purchase price does not include a storage fee. Therefore the client defers payment on storage until the first invoice date, which could be up to six months later. For example, if a client buys bullion in the first week of May, they only get billed for their first storage fee nearly six months later at the end of October, and so (the client) avoids an upfront storage fee at the time of purchase.
