CHAPTER 18

Physical Assets: Bars, Storage and Farmland

Owning the real thing

Opening question

“What does it really cost to own physical gold or farmland?”

In this chapter

Why investors still want physical assets
Bars and coins: formats, premiums and buy–sell spreads
A worked example on a Vietnamese gold bar and the domestic premium
Storage options from the home safe to the allocated vault
Safety and authenticity: refiners, assays, certificates and dealers
Farmland and timber as productive real assets, with a worked example
Comparing the total cost of physical holdings with funds and futures
Legal and tax questions to check in each country

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This chapter is in the full book

Chapter 1 is free to read online. The full text of chapter 18 — with its tables, figures, worked examples and practice lab — is available in the complete edition of Commodity Investing: From Theory to Practice (Volume 2, NXW Investment Library).

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Sections of this chapter

18.1 Why own the real thing?

18.2 Bars and coins: formats and premiums

18.3 Gold in Vietnam: the domestic premium

18.4 Where to keep it: storage options

18.5 Safety and authenticity

18.6 Silver and the other precious metals

18.7 Farmland and timber: productive real assets

18.8 Liquidity and the total cost compared

18.9 Legal and tax aspects

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