By Patrick Heller
Virtually all Americans who have self-directed Precious Metals Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) have chosen the less expensive form of “unallocated storage” in vaults for their holdings in these IRAs.
As we learned during the bankruptcy of MF Global during the Great Recession, unallocated storage means you don’t own real gold and silver. In unallocated storage, you have a claim against the assets of the operator of the storage vault, who is the party who has title to the gold and silver that you think you own
