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title: Putting Gold In Your Pension In the UK
description: What you need to know about gold and your pension in the UK. Why Gold? A Pension and Gold. Criteria for Gold in a Pension. Investing in Gold
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# Investing In Gold In Your Pension In The UK

What you need to know about gold and your pension in the UK

SIPPs and SSASs were launched by the UK Government in 2006 in order to enable UK citizens gain more control over their pension investment portfolio.

A key rule of both schemes is that UK citizens can invest in gold in a self-administered pension fund.

To protect SIPPs and SSASs from inferior product, all gold must come in the form of ‘good delivery bars’ as per the London Bullion Market Association who maintains a list of approved bar manufactures such as the Perth Mint of Western Australia.

By downloading this eBook, you will learn the fundamentals of how to put gold in your pension in the UK.

**In this eBook you will find out about:**

- Why Gold?
- A Pension and Gold
- Criteria for Gold in a Pension
- Investing in Gold

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