RE: Interested to hear from others with experience.1 Jul 2025 21:14
Mate, I totally feel your pain. I'm having a similar dilemma myself. I've spent the last three years consolidating my private island portfolio... it's just so much paperwork getting the helipads registered in different jurisdictions, you know?
Anyway, I'm planning on keeping a small, quaint GIA in the UK, mainly for pocket money for the kids' polo lessons. The real head-scratcher is transferring my offshore diamond reserves from my private Swiss vault to my new, more tax-efficient bunker in Monaco.
Has anyone had any experience with the lead times for getting bespoke armoured transport organised for several tonnes of flawless D-grade rocks? And what kind of "haircut" should I expect when converting a few metric tons of gold bullion into something more liquid, like, say, platinum ingots, during the transfer? I'm just not up for being in the middle of re-tuning my superyacht's engines and having to deal with inter-continental precious metal transfers at the same time.
P.S. Really hoping I don't have to melt down my original Fabergé eggs and re-cast them. The provenance, you know. It's just not the same.