Certified Gold Exchange Authors
Meet the professionals behind Certified Gold Exchange's educational resources on precious metals, Gold IRAs, and retirement accounts.
John J. Halloran
Founder & CEO, Certified Gold Exchange
John J. Halloran is the Founder and CEO of Certified Gold Exchange and author of The Retirement Accounts Playbook. Since founding CGE in 1992, he has spent more than three decades working directly with physical gold and silver, precious metals pricing, dealer markups, and retirement accounts involving physical precious metals.
Over the past three decades, John has been quoted as a precious metals industry source in hundreds of publications and media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, MarketWatch, and Yahoo Finance. His experience has given him a close view of both the products investors can easily compare and the high-premium offerings that can be difficult to independently value.
That perspective shaped CGE's focus on widely traded bullion, transparent pricing, and consumer education. John also writes about Gold IRAs, rollovers, Roth conversions, required minimum distributions, inherited accounts, and retirement taxation, with an emphasis on helping readers understand the questions worth asking before making important financial decisions.
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Pat Collins
Senior Vice President of Gold IRA Services
Pat Collins is Senior Vice President of Gold IRA Services at Certified Gold Exchange and author of The Complete Guide to U.S. Retirement Accounts. For more than 17 years, he has worked directly with retirement-account transfers, rollovers, inherited IRAs, precious metals purchases, storage arrangements, and account liquidations.
Pat's experience comes from handling real retirement-account cases across dozens of custodians and plan administrators, each with its own procedures, paperwork, and timing requirements. That hands-on work gives him practical insight into the problems investors often face when accounts stall, dealers disappear, inherited assets need to be resolved, or high-markup metals need to be liquidated.
He also writes extensively about Gold IRAs, self-directed IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, Roth conversions, required minimum distributions, beneficiary rules, and retirement-account taxation. His focus is straightforward: explain the process clearly, show clients their options, and help them understand the administrative and pricing issues that matter before they make a decision.
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