As well as offering a full transactional platform for buying gold and
buying silver, the BullionStar website features a wide variety of
original research, analysis and other content addressing the global precious
metals markets. BullionStar's aim with this analysis and content is to
provide readers and viewers with unique and up-to-date insights into the
precious metals markets that are not available elsewhere.
A case in point is the BullionStar Perspectives video series which
provides viewers with free access to leading independent views of the
precious metals markets. In July, BullionStar had the privilege of hosting an
exclusive interview in Singapore with legendary investor, author and
financial commentator Jim Rogers, and this interview has now been published
under the BullionStar Perspectives series.
Jim Rogers - Catastrophe and Opportunity
Rogers, who currently resides in Singapore, co-founded the famous Quantum
Fund in 1973, and has written a number of best-selling investment and travel
themed books.
The interview touches on potential crises that Rogers thinks could impact
the global economy and the opportunities that such crisis may offer
investors. Catastrophe and Opportunity can be viewed as the same phenomenon,
and panic creates buying opportunities.
Ideally, Rogers thinks the Federal Reserve should stand aside since it has
created many problems such as driving interest rates to zero and wiping out
savers. Realistically, he doubts the Fed would be abolished, and in a future
acute crisis, it will be pressured into generating ultimately futile
financial market rallies.
Crucially, Rogers believes in the importance of acquiring physical gold
and silver as an insurance policy, and in understanding what you are
investing in. Everybody, he says, should have some gold and silver as an
insurance policy if nothing else. “You hope you never need it”, but
“its the best insurance policy in the world”.
Rogers owns physical gold and thinks that due to future financial market
instabilities, gold could well turn into its own bubble. This is because,
when financial crises hit, people go to gold and silver as a safe haven
asset. "That’s what they do", he says.
Rogers appreciates that the gold market is a fractional-reserve market,
with only partial backing by real physical metal. On the subject of paper
gold versus physical gold, Rogers envisages that in a real crisis, there
won’t be a paper gold market - the paper gold markets will close down due to
widespread chaos. That is what there is a need for physical gold ownership,
in your pocket or in a vault.
Jim, who has some gold stored in Singapore, thinks that Singapore is
better than most as a gold storage jurisdiction, and an added attraction is
that buying investment gold and silver in Singapore is tax free (GST free).
The interview with Jim Rogers is published as part of the BullionStar
Perspectives series, a series which aims to provide viewers with free access
to original and independent views and analysis of the precious metals
markets.
The Jim Rogers Interview, which is just over 14 minutes long, can be
viewed here
Other videos in the BullionStar Perspectives videos series include Marcus
Grubb of the World Platinum Investment Council on the Case for Platinum. Bron
Suchecki of Monetary Metals on the intricacies between
the physical and paper gold markets, Chris Powell of GATA on price manipulation in the
gold market, analyst Jayant Bhandari on the Indian gold market,
and Ronan Manly of BullionStar on Secrecy vs Transparency in
the gold market.
The BullionStar website also features in-depth factual gold market
information in BullionStar's
Gold University portal, original research and analysis of the
global precious metals markets by BullionStar analysts Koos Jansen
and Ronan Manly, a unique monthly review of the world's most important
physical gold markets in chart form in BullionStar's Gold Market
Charts series, and a specific company-focused blog series known as BullionStar Blogs
(also known as 'Inside BullionStar').
BullionStar's Gold University is aWikipedia-style resource for use by the
gold industry, by financial media and reporters and by general readers. It
features contemporary factual information covering the world's gold markets,
a selection of the world's largest gold vaults, profiles of the world's
largest precious metals refineries and mints, and profiles gold industry
associations. It also contains sections addressing the core concepts of the
Chinese gold market, central bank policies on gold, and the mechanics of
bullion banking and gold ETFs.
Articles and analysis by BullionStar analysts Koos Jansen and Ronan Manly, published
in the form of blogs, keep readers up to date with developments in the
precious metals markets. These blogs contain original research, such as on
the Chinese and London gold markets, and are popular across the precious
metals industry as well as being frequently featured across many other
websites.
BullionStar's Gold Market Charts uses charts to capture current
developments and demand and flow trends in the world’s most important
physical gold markets including China, India, Russia and Switzerland.
The BullionStar Blog's series (Inside BullionStar) features posts relevant
to the company BullionStar and its products, but also extends to hosting
interesting articles on aspects of the gold market and BullionStar's unique
Infographics on the gold market.
All of the above content can be found on the BullionStar site under the
'BullionStar Research' menu.
BullionStar in the Media
BullionStar and its team members are also frequently quoted in the wider
financial media, and have appeared in coverage by well-known publications
such as the Wall
Street Journal, Bloomberg, Straits Times of Singapore, and CityWire Asia.
Media Coverage of BullionStar is summaried in a Press Room page on
BullionStar's website.