"And that is one reason why I recommend putting a great portion of your retirement portfolio into physical gold and silver bullion held in your own possession. There is really no other safe alternative. But if you want to take a much greater risk, and still participate in the continuing precious metals bull market, in the knowledge that silver, in particular, is greatly underpriced in today’s dollars, then physical bullion ETF’s such as SIVR (ETFS Physical Silver Shares), PSLV (Sprott Physical Silver Trust ET), PHYS (Sprott Physical Gold Trust ETV), SGOL (ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares), CEF (Central Fund of Canada), and GTU (Central Gold Trust of Canada) are far better alternatives than GLD (SPDR Gold Trust) and SLV (iShares Silver Trust)."