Julien Phillips
Julian Phillips is the Founding Partner of Gold Forecaster - Global Watch and Silver Forecaster [incorporating Platinum]. Mr. Phillips analyzes the gold, silver, and platinum market alongside the macro economic currency aspects of these precious metals. He covers the shares involved in these sectors and publishes numerous articles on specialist websites concerning precious metals. Mr. Phillips is also a specialist in Exchange Controls and international currencies. He has qualified to be a member of the London Stock Exchange. His working life has focused on Gold/Currencies/Fund Management and now Silver and Platinum. Additionally, Mr. Phillips has spent some years in capital creation in currency distressed countries through exchange control incentives. Mr Phillips is also the Chairman of Stockbridge Management Alliance Ltd. a company that offers gold storage in a way designed to prevent its confiscation should such an order be issued in any country. His websites are at http://www.goldforecaster.com and http://www.silverforecaster.com/.
Julien Phillips Articles
The events in India have taken a most interesting turn for gold. The one year-old political party that is anti-corruption is shaking the political foundations there. The ruling National Congress Party is having to change its stance in a...
In 2013 the Indian Government raised import duties to 15% on gold. It then prevented the import of gold unless 20% of that gold was exported. Now this is blocked too. What impact has this had on the gold price? Here we look at the...
When the euro arrived on the scene, it took over around 32% of global foreign exchange reserves from the USD, with the tacit approval of the U.S. This dropped the USD’s percentage of global reserves from 95% to around 63%. Since then [2000...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 7)
In this part and the next, we will look at the prospects for the gold price for the rest of this year and beyond. These next parts are critical. What we will try to do is to synthesize the factors playing on the gold market from the...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 6)
In this part and the next we will look at the prospects for the gold price for the rest of this year and beyond. These next parts are the critical parts. What we will try to do is to synthesize the factors playing on the gold market today...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 5)
Indian Imports & Temple Gold - We feel it important to raise this topic once more in this series because Societe Generale, the French bank has stated that if the Indian government does not handle this matter well there could be a run...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 3)
It may be in the reader’s mind that somehow all gold markets come together at some point and an exact representation of demand and supply is given by the gold price. The reality is that most markets are entirely separate from each other...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 2)
One of the biggest problems facing a miner, a refiner, a jewelry maker and anyone forced to hold gold for a period of time, when his business is not speculating on the gold price, is avoiding the price risk inherent in owning gold for such...
Gold Markets Are Not Efficient, Don’t Reflect Fundamentals & Understate Gold’s Market Value (Part 1)
This is a series on how and why the gold markets fail to reflect the true balance of demand and supply in gold and silver prices. Many investors expect and believe that the gold price is an accurate reflection of demand and supply, but it...
Difference between India & China. While both nations have been touted as the fasted growing nations in Asia, there are stark differences between the two nations that are coming to the fore now. The first is that in China, the...
