A gold IRA is a high-stakes retirement decision, and that only works if you can trust what you read here. This page sets out exactly how Gold IRA Consulting operates: how we stay independent, how we make money, where our facts come from, and how to hold us accountable when we get something wrong.
Scores are set by our research team using published criteria. No company can buy a higher ranking.
We earn affiliate commissions, marked rel="sponsored", at no extra cost to you. It never moves a score.
Claims are checked against primary IRS and .gov sources and reviewed by a Certified Financial Planner.
Our rankings, scores, and recommendations are decided by our research team alone. No company can pay to be ranked higher, to be described more favorably, or to have a negative finding deleted. Advertising relationships, partnership offers, and commission rates are kept entirely outside the editorial process. The people who negotiate affiliate partnerships are separated from the people who evaluate providers, and our full scoring framework is published on our how we rank page so you can audit the logic yourself. If a partner company scores poorly against those criteria, it ranks poorly, and several companies we earn nothing from still appear in our research. Independence is not a slogan, it is a set of hard lines: we never let a provider preview a review for approval, we never trade favorable coverage for a higher commission, and we never bury a documented complaint to protect a relationship.
In line with the Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements and disclosures, we want this stated plainly. Gold IRA Consulting is reader-supported and earns affiliate commissions. When you click certain links to a provider and later open an account, that company may pay us a referral fee. Those links are marked rel="sponsored" in the page code, and every page that contains them carries a visible disclosure. This compensation never changes our rankings or scores, and it costs you nothing extra. We are not a broker, dealer, custodian, or financial advisor, and nothing on this site is personalized investment advice.
Transparency about revenue is part of earning trust. Gold IRA Consulting is funded primarily by affiliate commissions paid when readers open accounts with providers we link to. We are paid only for a completed referral in some cases, never for the rating a company receives. We do not sell precious metals, we do not custody assets, and we do not accept payment to insert or remove specific claims about any company. Where a relationship could reasonably look like a conflict, we disclose it on the page itself.
Because retirement money is a your-money-your-life topic, we hold accuracy above speed. Every factual claim about IRS rules, contribution limits, tax treatment, or provider pricing is checked against a primary source before publication and reviewed by a Certified Financial Planner. Fees and account minimums are quoted from provider data and stamped with the month we verified them, alongside a reminder to confirm current pricing, because terms change. If you spot an error, tell us. Verified mistakes are corrected promptly, and material corrections are noted with an updated date so the record stays honest rather than quietly rewritten.
We anchor claims to primary, authoritative sources rather than to other blogs or marketing copy. For tax and retirement-account rules that means the IRS directly, including Publication 590-A, Publication 590-B, and the Internal Revenue Code, and for fraud and disclosure standards it means the SEC, FTC, and CFTC. Each guide cites the specific documents it relies on in a sources box near the end. When a rule is nuanced or contested, we say so rather than flatten it into false certainty, and we link the underlying document so you can read it for yourself. In practice that means:
Gold IRA rules, contribution limits, and provider fees all move, so our content is reviewed on a recurring schedule and whenever a relevant rule changes. Every article carries a visible last-updated date near its headline, plus a named author and the reviewer who checked it. An updated date reflects a genuine review of the page's facts, not a cosmetic timestamp. When figures such as annual fees or account minimums change, we update the page and re-stamp the verification month so you always know how fresh a number is.
Our writers and reviewers do not accept gifts, paid trips, or personal compensation from the companies they evaluate, and they disclose any holding that could bias their judgment. Editorial staff are paid by Gold IRA Consulting, never by the providers under review. The commercial side of the business, which manages affiliate relationships, has no vote in scoring decisions. If we ever cannot cleanly separate a commercial interest from an editorial judgment, we will say so in the article itself rather than hope you do not notice.
Accountability needs an address. If you believe something here is inaccurate, out of date, or unclear, email our editorial team at corrections@goldiraconsulting.com with the page and the specific claim. We read every message, verify it against primary sources, and fix confirmed errors quickly. You can learn more about the people behind this research on our about page, see the framework behind our scores on how we rank, or go straight to our independent rankings.
No. Rankings, scores, and recommendations are decided by our research team using published criteria, and no company can pay to rank higher, to be described more favorably, or to have a negative finding removed. The staff who negotiate affiliate partnerships are separated from the staff who evaluate providers, so compensation never touches a score. Several companies we earn nothing from still appear in our research.
Gold IRA Consulting is reader-supported and funded primarily by affiliate commissions. When you click certain links to a provider and later open an account, that company may pay us a referral fee at no extra cost to you. Those links are marked rel="sponsored" and every page that uses them carries a visible disclosure. We do not sell precious metals, custody assets, or accept payment to insert or remove specific claims about a company.
Every factual claim about IRS rules, tax treatment, contribution limits, or provider pricing is checked against a primary source before publication and reviewed by a Certified Financial Planner. Fees and account minimums are quoted from provider data and stamped with the month we verified them, with a reminder to confirm current pricing because terms change. Each guide cites the specific IRS, SEC, FTC, or CFTC documents it relies on.
Email our editorial team at corrections@goldiraconsulting.com with the page and the specific claim you believe is wrong. We verify every report against primary sources and fix confirmed errors promptly. Material corrections are noted and the page's last-updated date is changed so the record stays honest.
The standards on this page draw on primary government and regulatory sources. Confirm current rules and guidance before acting.
Independence is only credible if the method is open. Read the scoring framework behind every ranking, then check the providers it produces.