About Gold IRA Insight

Gold IRA Insight exists because Gold IRA research is dominated by two bad options: affiliate blogs that rank companies by commission size, and thin exact-match sites that scraped each other. We publish the third version — slow, sourced, methodical reviews that show their work.

What we do

We rate Gold IRA dealers and custodians on a published, weighted methodology: fees, customer feedback, transparency, buyback and storage. Every review lists the sources we used and the date we checked them. When sources disagree, we print the range. When a company has a real problem — a bankruptcy, a lawsuit pattern, hidden pricing — we print that too, with dates.

Editorial standards

• Ratings follow the methodology before anything else. No company can buy a score, a ranking, or the removal of a con.
• Every tax statement traces to IRS publications; every rating claim traces to a dated public profile.
• We mark unverified numbers instead of rounding them into false confidence.
• Reviews are re-verified at least quarterly; corrections ship within days.
• We never give individualized investment advice — our pages explain how things work and who typically benefits, and who doesn't.

Who writes this

The desk is led by Marcus Whitfield, senior editor, retirement & precious metals. His background is editorial, not sales: 12 years of editing and fact-checking consumer finance coverage, the last eight concentrated on self-directed retirement accounts, the IRS rules that govern precious metals IRAs, and the fee structures dealers would rather not publish.

His working rule is the site's rule: every number in a review must trace to a primary source — the company's own fee schedule, a BBB profile, a court docket, an IRS publication — and every number we could not verify gets marked, not smoothed over. Reviews are researched against these sources, scored under the published methodology, and re-verified at least quarterly.

What Marcus checks personally, on every review

• The published fee schedule against the fees third parties report — line by line
• The full BBB record: grade, accreditation dates, complaint themes, resolution behavior
• Review-platform distributions (Trustpilot, ConsumerAffairs) — the shape, not just the average
• Court dockets and regulator actions for every company with a history
• IRS publications behind every tax statement we make

How a review is produced

1. Primary-source research. Fee schedules, BBB files, court dockets and IRS publications are collected first; marketing claims are never the source of a fact.
2. Scoring under the published criteria. Five weighted scores with hard caps — hidden pricing and unresolved complaints limit a score before any prose is written.
3. Second read against the methodology. The finished review is checked criterion by criterion: does the score match the evidence, does every number carry a source or a [verify] mark?
4. Dated publication and quarterly re-verification. The check date ships with the review; when facts change, the date does too.

How we're funded

The site may earn commissions when readers open accounts with companies we review. That money never touches ratings — the details, including what we'd refuse, are in our affiliate disclosure.

Facts across the site were last checked October 2026. Questions or corrections: contact page.