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How do you own Silver

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How do you own silver?

Buy silver bullions or silver bars – The American Eagle coins are known to be of the highest quality silver coins that a person can accumulate. Of course, we have other silver bars made by reputable companies that you can easily find doing a search online.

Buy commodities mutual funds which have exposure to silver mining companies. Good way to invest as you can indirectly own not one, but many of such companies to diversify your holdings. However, mutual funds can be expensive to own due to the many kinds of expenses (which fund managers may not even inform you of all charges) and they are usually meant for long-term holdings.

Buy silver Exchange Traded Funds – EFTs are traded on stock exchanges and you can buy and sell just like you do for any stock on the exchange. The investment costs are much lower than that for mutual funds – no annual management fees, performance fees, etc which you have to incur for mutual funds. The only costs incurred are brokerage fee, clearing fee, and trading fee (and Goods and Service Taxes or Value-Added Taxes for countries with such tax structure). But you may be exposed to liquidity risks as ETFs can be illiquid– you may wish to sell that ETF but there may not be any buyer.

I prefer to hold silver bullion coins and silver bars - tangible and highly valuable things always appeal to all of us. We can see, feel and touch them! Unlike intangible stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, I personally love to hold onto physical metal because I can see I don’t have to subject my investment to factors that are beyond my control like the management style of companies and fund managers which will affect the price of the funds and stock of the companies that I invest in. In times of uncertainty, we feel more at ease and can sleep better at night because we KNOW we have something that is valuable and universally accepted everywhere. NO one in the right mind would hold on to local currencies – they would have become worthless and useless!