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While I was in Mexico for our Global Offshore and Investment Summit in Cancun in 2015, I was approached by Forbes Mexico for an interview on some of the key trends in the global economy as well as internationalization strategies for investors. You can read the full article here in Spanish, and below I’m
December 10, 2014 Santiago, Chile When Karl Marx wrote about the bourgeoisie as the “unproductive class” he was writing from personal experience. The foremost champion of the proletariat, Marx never actually belonged to the working class himself. Born into a well-off middle-class family, Marx ascended up the social hierarchy by marrying into Prussian
December 8, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] You can be for gold, or you can be for paper, but you cannot possibly be for both. It may soon be time to take a stand. The arguments in favour of gold are well
December 1, 2014 Santiago, Chile Over four centuries ago, the Dutch East India Company made history as the world’s first IPO. Known as VOC in the Netherlands, the company was one of the most successful ventures in the last several hundred years. When adjusted for inflation, its highest market capitalization would be worth
December 1, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] So the Swiss have decided not to force their central bank into underpinning its reserves with harder assets than increasingly worthless euros. At least they had the chance to vote. But in the bigger picture,
November 12, 2014 Santiago, Chile Thousands of years ago whenever the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt passed away, they were buried with all of their gold in a specially constructed tomb. The idea was to ward off thieves with booby traps and other perils so that these perceived demigods could enjoy their riches for
At USD $1160, a lot of gold owners are looking at the paper price right now and panicking. The conventional wisdom is that, because it takes fewer pieces of paper to buy an ounce, gold is a bad ‘investment’. This isn’t the right idea. It shouldn’t be viewed as an investment at all.
November 12, 2014 Santiago, Chile When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first came to Prague on 11 January 1787, he was an absolute sensation. His smash hit opera Le nozze di Figaro had been released in the city a few months prior, and the people were absolutely wild about it. So this time, in 1787,
October 29, 2014 Region VII, Chile Among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci’s “La Scapigliata” stands out distinctly from the rest. The unfinished painting is of a common woman with disheveled hair. It’s remarkable particularly for depicting not the exceptional, but the real. Part of da Vinci’s genius was the
October 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon today.] For the benefit of anyone living under a rock these past weeks, Bill Gross, the so-called “Bond King” and manager of the world’s
September 2, 2014 En route to South America As the world’s top central bankers gathered at their annual jamboree recently, the governor of Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, undoubtedly received envious comments from his fellow money magicians for Canada’s perceived status as a global financial safe haven. This newly found perception was perhaps
“Price is what you pay; value is what you get.”– Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s aphorism has been rightly celebrated. But to be a true value investor, it helps to have values. Courtesy of near-zero interest rates and global competitive currency debauchery, it is increasingly difficult to assess the value of anything, as denominated
Five full years on from the financial crisis, stock markets have regained lost ground and are within striking distance of new record highs. Yet, it’s only NOW, after all the gains from the bottom have been made, that the investing crowd is starting to put money back into stocks. Curious. When stocks were
September 26, 2012 Hong Kong It’s now officially a 3-way race to the bottom between the dollar, the euro, and the yen. It started on September 6th with the ECB announcing a new, UNLIMITED bond-buying program. A week later, the US Federal Reserve officially announced QE3, another open-ended (de facto limitless) bond buying
The Cheapest Ways & Places to Buy Gold in 2023 AUTHOR PUBLISHED Looking to buy gold or silver as an insurance policy against the uncertainty the world faces today? Below we reveal the cheapest ways to buy gold and silver and how you can find the least expensive places to buy gold coins,
