The Gold IRA,
done honestly.
For retirees and near-retirees rolling a 401(k) or IRA into physical precious metals — who want the Office's architectural commitments inside the IRA wrapper. Reserve IRA minimum $100,000. Launching by-invitation cohort Q2 2026.
The Reserve IRA brings the Office's standing architecture inside the IRA wrapper: the reviewed Strategy Brief, named refiner sourcing through direct counterparty relationships with Argor-Heraeus, MKS PAMP, and Valcambi, allocated and segregated custody at Brinks (IRS-approved for IRA metal storage), institutional-grade bullion only, transparent metal-spread and vaulting pricing named in writing, and the exit posture in writing before entry.
The structural posture is the same one the Office holds across every engagement: two transparent line items in pricing, no numismatic product by specification, the documentation chain delivered to the client. The IRA wrapper is the only thing that changes. Reviewed by a founding partner before delivery, within five business days of intake.
The deliverable, specified.
Named on the marketing page. Contracted at intake. Delivered in writing.
- ✓Reviewed 8-section Strategy Brief — IRA variant
Situation framing, allocation sizing against the rollover balance, custody architecture (self-directed custodian + IRS-approved depository), titling within the IRA wrapper, form of the reserve specified to IRS-eligible product only, implementation sequence against the 60-day rollover deadline, exit posture, and open questions for your CPA or estate attorney. Delivered in five business days.
- ✓IRS-approved Brinks custody — allocated and segregated
Specific, individually identifiable bars designated to your IRA and held apart from any other holder’s metal. Not a pooled account, not a fractional claim. Brinks is IRS-approved for precious-metals IRA storage; the Office works directly through the Brinks relationship. All-risk insurance coverage underwritten at Lloyd’s of London.
- ✓Institutional-grade bullion only
IRS-eligible sovereign bullion coins from the major mints — American Eagles and Buffalos (US Mint), Canadian Maple Leafs (Royal Canadian Mint), Australian Kangaroos (Perth Mint), Austrian Philharmonics, and others — in gold, silver, platinum, and palladium where IRS-eligible. Plus IRS-approved kilo and larger bars and Good Delivery formats. Sourced through direct refiner counterparty relationships with Argor-Heraeus, MKS PAMP, and Valcambi. No numismatic coinage. No "exclusive" or "semi-numismatic" upsell. No "pre-1933 confiscation protection" fiction.
- ✓Self-directed custodian coordination
The Office coordinates with a nationally recognized, industry-leading IRS-approved self-directed IRA custodian on rollover paperwork, funding, and annual reporting. The custodian is administrative; the operational commitment to the architecture — named refiner sourcing, allocated-and-segregated Brinks custody, transparent pricing, written exit posture — is the Office's.
- ✓Transparent pricing — two line items, brief included
A competitive wholesale spread on the IRS-eligible metal (buy and sell, named in writing by format) plus a vaulting rate at IRS-approved Brinks (negotiated at company level, passed through to the client without markup). The Strategy Brief, custodian coordination, documentation chain, and annual review are included with the engagement. No numismatic premium structure, no AUM percentage, no separate brief fee, no performance fee. The only economics inside the Reserve IRA are the ones disclosed in the brief.
- ✓Written exit posture — built for RMDs and drawdown
The brief names the spread expectations at exit, the mechanism for Required Minimum Distributions once they begin, and the drawdown sequence for when the IRA is converted to cash or in-kind distribution. The exit is written before the entry.
A Gold IRA built on the client’s side of the margin — because the arithmetic requires choosing a side.
What this engagement looks like.
- How is the Reserve IRA different from the firms that advertise nationally?
- The Reserve IRA carries a reviewed Strategy Brief, sources through direct refiner counterparty relationships with Argor-Heraeus, MKS PAMP, and Valcambi, holds metal in allocated and segregated custody at Brinks (IRS-approved), and contains no numismatic or "semi-numismatic" product by specification. The pricing is two transparent line items — a competitive metal spread by format and a vaulting rate at Brinks, both named in writing — with the brief and implementation included. /standards documents the standing rules; /comparison maps where the Office sits in the broader landscape, including the segments where the public regulatory record sets the structural context.
- What is the minimum? Can I roll a $50,000 IRA?
- The Reserve IRA minimum is $100,000 at this stage. The economics of an engagement at this standard — brief reviewed by a founding partner, named refiner sourcing, allocated-and-segregated Brinks custody, no commissioned revenue path — do not work below that floor. Retail operators can take $10,000–$50,000 rollovers because their revenue model runs through numismatic premium capture, not engagement economics. The Office is not a retail operator.
- Which self-directed IRA custodian does the Office work with?
- The Office works with a nationally recognized, industry-leading IRS-approved self-directed custodian and names the specific firm in the brief for each engagement. The custodian performs administrative functions — account opening, rollover paperwork, IRS reporting — and does not hold any discretion over the metal itself. The operational commitment to the architecture is the Office's, not the custodian's.
- What product is held inside the Reserve IRA?
- IRS-eligible bullion only. Sovereign bullion coins from the major mints — American Gold Eagles and Buffalos, Canadian Gold and Silver Maples, Australian Kangaroos, Austrian Philharmonics, and other IRS-eligible coins in gold, silver, platinum, and palladium where eligible — plus kilo and larger bars meeting IRS purity thresholds and Good Delivery bars for larger engagements. No graded coins, no proof coins, no "semi-numismatic" product, no "exclusive" or "limited-mintage" product. The distinction between IRS-eligible and IRS-approved-but-upsold is the line retail operators cross to generate their margin; the Office does not.
- What happens at Required Minimum Distribution age?
- RMDs from a precious-metals IRA can be taken as cash (the Office coordinates a partial sale through the same refiner counterparty relationship the brief names, at the then-prevailing spread) or as in-kind distribution (specific bars withdrawn from Brinks and titled directly to the client outside the IRA wrapper). The brief names the expected mechanism and the cost structure for both paths, so the RMD is planned before it is required, not managed under time pressure.
- When can the cohort launch?
- The Reserve IRA is accepting by-invitation engagements beginning Q2 2026. The Office accepts a small number of IRA engagements each quarter; selection is by considered fit, not by pace of inbound. Intakes submitted now will be reviewed in order received.
The Gold IRA, built the way the Office builds everything else.
The Reserve IRA is not a different product with a different standard. It is the same engagement, the same refiner sourcing, the same allocated-and-segregated Brinks custody, inside the IRA wrapper — with the retail premium-capture mechanism deliberately absent. Begin the intake now. The reviewed brief is delivered within five business days of intake.
The metal is yours — not a fund’s, not a claim on any counterparty.
Reviewed brief delivered in five business days of intake. The engagement structure is named in the brief — you proceed only if both fit your situation.
The Office accepts a small number of new engagements each quarter. Selection is by considered fit, not by pace of inbound.