BullionStar Media & Original Content

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 why 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 a Wikipedia-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.