As I mentioned have a position in PSLV. But I have long held a position in CEF sometimes more sometimes less. Perhaps I have been fooled, but I have come to trust the Sprott products.
I am surprised you can’t find a work around. Setting up a foreign account for example but makes accounting and tax issues. Why are they banned? Baffling.
aurum
added: I prefer to pick my own stocks because of charting technicals and also I worry about geographic risk.