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Please contact Auctus directly to request the Account Opening Forms. Clients may call +65 6340 9192 or email [email protected] with their enquiry. Clients confirm whether they are bringing existing metal allocations into the vault or injecting cash capital - or combining both approaches.
Account Opening Forms must be completed with selection of preferred portfolio model and holding method (Segregated Account or Singapore Managed Portfolio). Required documents include passport copy, address confirmation, and additional identity verification and KYC details.
Auctus is not a fund management group but a physical metal bullion advisory service targeting sophisticated or accredited investors per MAS definition. The company advises clients on percentage weightings across five precious metals - Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium - to maximise returns. Re-weightings occur as the signals warrant, based on market activity - historically four times per year - executed under client Power of Attorney when the models trigger diversification events.
Clients hold physical metals in wholly segregated vaults under their family, company or trust name within Le Freeport Singapore - with complete ownership and control. Metal holdings carry no third-party liability, undergo an independent annual physical inventory audit by Bureau Veritas, and are fully insured by Lloyd's of London. Clients may liquidate holdings at any time without penalty.
Auctus does not require a MAS financial licence since clients own the physical metals in personal vaults. The company is regulated by the Ministry of Law for anti-money-laundering and terrorism-financing prevention.
Auctus conducted exhaustive methodology replication with BDO Global, backtesting models using 50 years of daily metal data covering all algorithm aspects including bear markets, extreme inflation, deflation, wars, banking crises, oil crises and the Global Financial Crisis. Results demonstrate consistent performance across bull and bear markets without mathematical doubt.
The company employs sophisticated mathematical algorithms with over 55 live data variables to generate maximum portfolio returns and determine optimal metal weightings throughout the investment cycle. Algorithms ensure consistent, immutable and multi-variable measurement processing of large data volumes. Major trade trigger events receive management analysis while algorithms remain rigorously adhered to. Daily algorithm execution enables instant detection of input anomalies.
Portfolio algorithms focus exclusively on optimum client returns by identifying precious metals correlation breakdowns presenting trading opportunities. Several extreme imbalances in precious metal prices represent immediate profitable opportunities. Auctus measures models against metal values relative to each other rather than the US dollar - with dollar returns following naturally. Current signals indicate generational entry levels presenting unusually attractive opportunities.
All trade costs appear in client allocation reports complying with the Terms and Conditions. Auctus endeavours to improve prices through multiple supplier contracts within wholesale markets. Market conditions and liquidity factors may alter buy and sell prices, preventing guaranteed spread commitments.
While not obligated to release information as a non-fund entity - and considering strict client confidentiality clauses - Auctus mandates market-beating precious metals portfolio management. The company advises on substantial assets, circa US$220 million, growing rapidly month-to-month.
Precious metals move in value amplitudes against each other within clearly defined ranges across differing economic periods, with unique determinable pricing relationships. The algorithms extract optimum returns from already acceptable performing asset classes by identifying unrecognised investment opportunities.
While paper gold and silver typically correlate negatively to the US dollar, the more volatile PGMs (platinum, palladium, rhodium) typically thrive during high economic growth or supply-driven shortages, offsetting slower gold and silver growth periods. Silver underperforms gold during mutual price declines against the US dollar, but historically performs oppositely during rises. Silver historically outperforms gold by over 100% during price rises, and the models constantly leverage these situations to generate returns exceeding static metal holdings.
Many investors treat physical precious metals as non-yielding insurance against counter-economic cycles affecting portfolio value - stock crashes, financial crises, wars, currency debasement, sovereign debt crises. Cautious physical metal investors value insurance against paper and digital market breakdowns.
Auctus never removes investors from allocated physical holdings. The platform isn't trade-intensive, adjusting portfolios as the signals warrant, based on market activity - historically four times per year - identifying infrequent price anomalies that maximise total metal value beyond a static holding. This achieves growth yield exceeding static allocations.
Clients traditionally hold a small overall portfolio percentage in physical metals, balancing the rest in higher-yielding stocks, properties and bonds. Auctus bridges these methodologies, enabling higher overall portfolio percentages in hybrid physical-metal growth portfolios.
The precious metals industry is considered defeatist when explored by serious quant investment teams - explaining limited investigation versus other classic asset classes. Auctus represents a hybrid category, providing yielding precious-metal investment participation while maintaining physical, liquid portfolio security.
Major financial institutions avoid holding physical vaulted metal, trading only paper futures markets. Gold, silver and platinum have established futures markets; palladium and rhodium do not. Long-term futures or ETF positions with regular rollovers severely compromise net returns - especially over lengthy holdings. Physical precious metal holding is considerably cheaper than paper futures. Futures suit short and medium-term trading only; long-term invest-and-hold strategies are physical, generally unappealing to quant funds and trading teams.
An Auctus portfolio sits on the other side of that line: 100% physical precious metals, with no ETFs, derivatives or paper instruments at any point in the structure.
Engagement size is bespoke to the client. Recent advisory mandates have started from approximately SGD 250,000 in physical metal under advisory.
The financial industry, including banks and investment funds, regularly incorporates financial analysis within trading strategies through backtesting or risk modelling. Backtesting applies a trading system to historical data, verifying performance during specified periods - an extremely important process requiring strict execution criteria. Today's financial market investment models predominantly utilise backtesting. Future prediction is impossible, yet historical strategy methodology verification across multiple market conditions spanning decades is achievable.
Auctus Metal Portfolios models were independently replicated and backtested by BDO Global, incorporating all daily metals data from 1968 forward. Achievements are net after all costs - management fees, vaulting costs, and metals-swap bid/offer spreads on every executed trade - are deducted.
Auctus Metal Portfolios fully instigates the required metal swaps based on algorithmic trade trigger events analysed daily using live feeds. The proprietary system implements portfolio adjustments recommended by the algorithm, trading physical holdings at optimal wholesale prices while cross-checking metals market product prices through extensive partnership networks. Strong relationships with refineries, wholesale suppliers, mints and bullion dealers simplify the process.
During Account Opening, clients provide a limited Power of Attorney allowing Auctus to execute metal swaps. Clients receive prospective re-weighting notifications and immediate adjustment information. Service withdrawal occurs at any time without penalty.
As often as the signals call for. Rebalances are not on a fixed calendar - they are triggered when Auctus's proprietary indicators (inter-metal ratios, supply-demand pressures, the Provectus signal) cross a threshold, always under Investment Committee oversight. Historically that has averaged around four per year.
Clients may withdraw at any time, divesting from portfolios and receiving cash transferred to a personal or corporate bank account. Drawdown instructions, reducing allocations or complete exit, are covered in the Terms and Conditions, depending on the invested metals' liquidity.
Auctus ensures privacy protection at the highest encryption levels. Information requested for identification purposes follows the Privacy Policy and complies with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) and the Data Protection Act 1998 Singapore.
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Auctus Metal Portfolios' vaulting partner is Malca-Amit Singapore. During account opening, Auctus assists clients throughout the vaulted account opening process. A leading third-party auditor physically inspects and audits every ounce of physical precious metals within the vault each year. The most recent Audit Report (21 July 2025) by Bureau Veritas Inspectorate Singapore covering the entire client bullion holdings at Malca-Amit's Le Freeport Singapore location is available for download.
