Gold American Eagles now available in your offshore IRA

By Ryan Kirsch

Would you use your IRA nest egg to make a risky bet? Of course not. Or at least, not on purpose. Yet, you are doing so every day if your retirement funds are entirely in securities and all held domestically.

ASI is excited to announce you can now own 1-ounce Gold American Eagles in your self-directed IRA, with your coins stored safely offshore in Zurich, Switzerland. It's easily set-up through ASI Precious Metals Direct (ASIPMD), our online precious metals buying system.

We continue to facilitate our 'three legged stool' philosophy. For complete portfolio balance, you should diversify...

1. across currencies,
2. across countries, and
3. across asset classes.

Now, we can help you achieve that goal with your IRA funds with Swiss storage of Gold American Eagles.

The new Zurich option extends your ability to protect and globalize holdings. This geographic diversification is especially important for those planning to retire, do business, travel or live abroad part-time.

Of course, you can also diversify your IRA into gold, silver, platinum and palladium bars, coins, rounds and the wafer thin Valcambi CombiBars and MultiGram25+ bars. These are held in domestic storage facilities in New York or Salt Lake City.

Don't gamble with your money in or out of an IRA

Our stock market goes into substantial decline, on average, once every eight years and takes from eighteen months to two years to recover. That's bad enough for any nest egg. If recession hits, while you are actively taking money out of your IRA after retirement or just before your required minimum distribution date, you may never recover fully.

You must have alternative assets to stocks and bonds in your IRA.

In 2008, the market dropped 40% and needed to rise 67% for you to recover. This was an enduring disaster for many retirees who thought they were done with the accumulation phase of their lives. Owning physical precious metals in your IRA adds the diversification you need to decrease portfolio volatility and thus, lessen the impact of such threats as they occur.

ASI Precious Metals Direct is readily available for precious metals ownership outside of an IRA in an individual, joint, corporate, UTMA (for minors) or trust relationships as well. It takes less than ten minutes to start the relationship and mere seconds to make a trade from any smart phone, computer or tablet. You can access your statement 24/7.

Of course, the same great pricing mechanism enabling worry-free buying applies to Swiss storage of Gold Eagles in your IRA as well.

ASI Precious Metals Direct literally tracks supplier pricing of precious metals moment to moment. There is no better price protection than wholesalers competitively blind-bidding for your business. That is precisely how ASI Precious Metals Direct works. Over a dozen refiners and wholesalers bid and the high tech system comes up with the 'indication price' - the average of the best three prices offered. The trade is executed at the lowest of the three prices.

You are spared confrontations with high pressure commissioned salespeople. There is no guessing or concern a better price is around the corner, and there are no anxiety producing phone calls to shop price.

Get uninvited salespeople out of your life with ASI Precious Metals Direct. When you do need guidance, you will speak with your ASI Preferred Client Relations representative who does not work on commission. Rather, he is rewarded for excellence in customer service to you.

When liquidating precious metals through ASI Precious Metals Direct, your sale is subject to the same best execution benefit as your purchase – just in reverse.

Storage is Key to IRA Safety and Liquidity

With 1-ounce gold American Eagle coins in your online offshore IRA, you not only achieve safety with gold through one of the most recognized legal tender coins in the world, but with the safety and security of a best-in-class Swiss precious metals storage facility.

With our new Zurich option you get all the benefits you expect of an ASI approved storage service:

• Your assets are insured for full replacement value;

• Your assets get quarterly audits conducted by a major international accounting firm;

• Intra Day liquidity: your holdings remain in the 'chain of custody' so you can sell during market trading hours by placing an order online with no need for assaying or authentication of your coins;

• In Zurich there is no VAT (Value Added Tax) on stored gold.

Here's What to Do Next

There is still enough time to make your 2013 and 2014 IRA contributions. Visit our website, www.asipmdirect.com and take a few moments to open a relationship.

The Entrust Group, your custodian, will send you funding instructions and do the rest. From then on, you will be able to buy and sell precious metals easily.

Keep What's Yours through ASI

Our Preferred Client Relations representatives are available to walk you through the process or answer any questions you may have regarding the funding of your IRA, the purchase of precious metals, foreign currencies, rare coins or rare stamps. Call us at 877-340-0790 or send me an email.

Make the move to Swiss safety now. Time has nearly run out on making 2013 IRA contributions.