Euro Pacific Capital

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Peter Schiff’s brokerage firm, focuses on international investments and precious metals

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Posted by Chux91 on Jul 25, 2011 @ 12:47 pm

I transferred a little over half of my retirement account to Euro-Pac in October of 2008 when I retired from 30 years working for a large municipality and chose a lump sum payoff. I wanted my money in either energy, agriculture or precious metals, preferably in all of them. Once my account was established, they got me into Baytex Energy, Westshore Terminals, Vitasoy, Duet Group, Central Fund of Canada, Silver Wheaton and others and looking back I can see this was a prime time to invest in such things, as the market really had no other way to go, it was down so much. You can use your imagination to see how some of these picks have appreciated or do a Yahoo search. They do a portfolio review with me personally every 3 to 6 months or whenever I feel the need and we have made several changes over the years, though never wandering too far from the energy, ag and PM’s I had grown to LOVE, though I’m also now into a couple of their funds. Namely their hard assets fund and the int’l bond fund. My only regret in dealing with these fine folks was that I should have given them ALL my money upon retirement back in 2008. Of course it hasn’t been all peaches and cream as in they like to push their reco’s and tend to overlook yours. But overall I’d give them a HUGE thumbs up and the balance in my portfolio doesn’t lie. To say I couldn’t really be happier with how they’ve managed my money would be an understatement. As for the naysayers I would suggest they either ran out of patience or weren’t really ready to invest in blue chip, foreign dividend paying stocks and commodities like they thought they were. Oh well, to each his or her own….

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Posted by Jean Christensen on Dec 11, 2010 @ 3:29 pm

If I could, I would give Peter Schiff and his so-called brokerage firm -10 (at least stars). My invovement with them was a nightmare from beginning to end. It began with this obnoxious broker asking me “Have you read the book yet?”…as if that “book” explained EVERYTHING there was to know about investing. He then told me that there was a minimum investment of $250,000 if you wanted to invest with them which I found out several traumatic episodes later was a LIE. In fact, Peter Schiff in an e-mail, told me that there was NO minimum but a $500,000 minimum if you wanted the great (in his mind) Schiff himself to handle your account.

If I hadn’t been ill at the time and often in a “brain fog”, I wouldn’t have invested a dime with EuroPacific. I panicked which is unusual for me and went ahead despite everything that was telling me “DON’T DO IT” and invested a large chunk of money with them.

It was the WORST financial mistake of my fairly long life. It’s a long, long story beginning with the first broker that I was working with and who was quite intelligent and reasonable….probably why he suddenly departed from EuroPacific…he must have some INTEGRITY (in their then Medford office which was run by a real piece of work, a totally sleazy individul) disappearing abruptly.

It’s so wonderful to have someone ask you “Aren’t you used to share prices going down?” when I am looking at a statement that shows me losing 65% of my initial investment. Or getting e-mails from the “great” man himself inviting you to investment conferences for which he is paid enormous sums of money to speak and meanwhile his “company” is losing your retirement money for you big time. Hey DUDE….how the heck am I supposed to go to this investment conference (even if I wanted to) when you have lost me most of my means to do so. And then there were the e-mails asking for donations for his campaign since he didn’t see why he should have to use his OWN money for the campaign. HEY! Nobody told you to run for that office oh brilliant one.

Just insult after insult. Insults to my intelligence, insults to my future economic well being, insults to my common sense.

EuroPacific Capital doesn’t give a DAMN about their clients (at least in my experience)

The final and last straw was when they failed to let me know that a lot of the companies in my “portfolio” had stopped paying dividends and one had gone bankrupt. I was fighting for my life at the time and didn’t have the time or the energy to investigate all of those companies myself. They had assured me at the beginning that if anything went awry with any of those companies they would certainly let me know. What a LIE that was.

I invested for income and didn’t even end up with much of that. I got everything out of there early this year and they are still sending me statements! Nothing in the account and the are still sending me statements! Nothing like adding insult to injury.

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Posted by qluvr on Sep 29, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

I took most of my IRA acct positions in Feb/Mar 2009 and i’m up overall about 80% since then. They have both self-directed and managed services so don’t expect a lot of hand-holding or sell-timing advice unless you ask for it if you’re self-directed. They do offer direct foreign purchases which is hard to come by except Canada/TSX you can get on Etrade. They have given me timely sell advice unsolicited which worked well, eg a EuroPac selected nickel miner i closed out with a >250% profit. I rejected a number of their recommendations, added my own and have about half europac and half my own picks. It does bug me a bit about Peter’s showmanship and not sticking to his brokerage knitting so to speak. I do believe that between quality dividend-paying foreign-denominated stocks, including mostly ones that do well when asia itself does well, plus precious-metal stocks, i’m well insulated against inflation/USD$ currency weakness, with a combo of upside and dividend income.

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Posted by Joe on Sep 29, 2010 @ 6:57 am

I’ve had a great experience with EuroPac as well. Their outlook on the global economy suffers from none of the common fallacies that one finds in mainstream investment advisors/economists.

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Posted by michael on Apr 30, 2010 @ 11:20 am

I disagree with the negative reviews posted. I have been a client since 2008 and my portfolio has developed nicely. My broker is excellent and in the past two weeks we have had conversations for at least 30 minutes at a time discussing positions, stocks, general outlook on what may happen in the world economies. He has a conservative approach and while their philosophy is “long term hold”, he and I regulary discuss my portfolio and make changes accordingly. Stay in touch with your money no matter where it is, waiting for any broker to “advise you” is foolish.

As for Peter Schiff personally, he has had the courage to stand by his convictions and ultimatley is being proven right.

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