I have pension fund that, I would like to use to invest in gold, can anybody give advice on how to go about doing this.

Presumably a SIPP would be required, has anyone already done this?

Bulllionvault on its website has a list of pension providers that offer holding gold via Bullionvault in a pension but they are all companies I have never heard of which makes me a little wary.

Any comments or advice would be apreciated.

Hi

I couldn't find any pension provider which had a gold fund, so opened a SIPP (Selftrade) and transferred my stakeholder pension into it. I split my pension between Merrill Lynch gold fund and Gold Bullion Securities, giving me access to shares and physical gold (or as near as I can get in a pension).

GoldMoney also have a SIPP offering via Berkeley Burke (who tbh I've never heard of) - GoldMoney SIPP

I'm sure I came across a pension provider recently who had gold as one of the fund choices, but I can't remember who they were. I'll post if I come across them again...

Regards,
crude.

The provider is Merchant Investors Assurance who have Merrill Lynch Gold as part of their fund choices, although they don't have a gold ETF.

Regards,
crude

Skandia have ML G&G - most pension providers would offer this. SIPP would be best for flexibility - all ETF's can be held including silver

I have just opened a vatange SIPP with Hargreaves Lansdown. You can held ETFs in this Sipp. Will have some silver and soft commodities ETFs in this.

Good move! Look at silver miners too. Good silver thread on GEI.