Investing in precious metals is as much about strategy and wealth preservation as it is about practical considerations like secure storage and discreet delivery. Gold is often regarded as a safe haven, but timing the market — knowing when to buy and sell — is critical, and this is even more true for the more volatile metals such as silver, palladium, and platinum.
Spear’s 2025 selection of top precious metals advisers highlights experts renowned for their deep knowledge and strategic foresight. These are the professionals ultra-high-net-worth individuals trust when investing in precious metals.
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- The best precious metals advisers: the complete list
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The best precious metals advisers: the complete list
Click on the individual names to be directed to more detailed profiles of each adviser on The Spear’s 500 website. The table is ordered by ranking and then alphabetically by surname.
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Methodology: how we choose our recommendations
Each year, the Spear’s Research Unit reassesses and refreshes its rankings of the leading providers in each sector by gathering data from and about the advisers and firms themselves, assessing submission forms, collating nominations, carrying out peer reviews, reviewing data from third-party sources, gathering references and recommendations, canvassing experts and conducting hundreds of interviews.
Advisers are evaluated using a proprietary scoring system that assigns different weightings to certain attributes. These scores feed directly into each new set of rankings in the Spear’s Indices. Each of these indices are published first online (according to the research calendar) and then in print. Print publication takes the form of the annual Spear’s 500 directory, which includes the top advisers in every index.
[See also: A guide to the Spear’s 500: Everything you need to know]
Each featured adviser is profiled on spears500.com. The site allows users to search the Spear’s database of more than 4,000 entities to find one (or more) to meet their specific requirements by filtering for specific attributes such as an adviser’s location, their specialist expertise and information about their client base.
The best precious metals advisers: Some names to know
Andrew Dickey
- Focus: Diversifying investment portfolios
- Position: Director of precious metals
- Firm: The Royal Mint
- Rank: Top Recommended
Andrew Dickey is divisional head of precious metals investments at The Royal Mint. His role is to support clients with access to physical and digital gold, silver and platinum, from newly minted and pre-owned coins and bars to digital bullion.
The Mint also offers responsibly sourced gold-backed exchange-traded commodities: its four funds track the price of gold, and are backed by physical bars held by the Mint.
Read Andrew Dickey’s full profile on Spears500.com
Mark Yaxley
- Focus: Acquisition and storage of precious metals
- Position: CEO
- Firm: Strategic Wealth Preservation
- Rank: Top recommended
Mark Yaxley has advised on precious metals investments and storage for almost two decades. When he began his career at Kitco Metals, he was responsible for managing and developing wholesale accounts; in 2014 he joined the Cayman Islands-based Strategic Wealth Preservation.
Now CEO of the firm, Yaxley tells Spear’s that he has become ‘an industry expert on the growing demand for offshore storage and geo-diversification of assets, including gold and silver’.
Read Mark Yaxley’s full profile on Spears500.com
David Russell
- Focus: Storage and delivery of precious metals
- Position: CEO
- Firm: GoldCore
- Rank: Top recommended
David Russell is the CEO of GoldCore, a company which guides investors in the purchase, delivery and ultra-secure storage of gold, silver, platinum and palladium coins and bars.
Their ‘open vault’ offering is a key differentiator for the firm and, according to Russell, gives the investor more assurance as to the safety of their precious metal investments.
The firm also has a policy of dealing with physical bars as opposed to simple online transactions.
Read David Russell’s fuill profile on Spears500.com.
Josh Saul
- Focus: Storage and delivery of precious metals
- Position: Founder, CEO
- Firm: The Pure Gold Company
- Rank: Top recommended
Josh Saul, founder and CEO of The Pure Gold Company, was an analyst researching markets and opportunities for large investment houses when he first became interested in precious metals.
Now he often appears as a well-informed commentator in the media and runs a company that allows investors to buy gold and silver in bar or coin form; it also provides storage solutions.
Pure Gold, which highlights that precious metals are a tax-efficient way of diversifying investment portfolios, provides an authenticity guarantee on all metal it sells and, according to the company, will buy back anything it sells at a favourable price.
Read Josh Saul’s full profile on Spears500.com
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