-- Published: Monday, 4 July 2016 | Print | Disqus
Summary
James Machuga, Senior Vice President of Merk Investments Advisor Services, makes his show debut.
Merk Investments suggests that every financial portfolio includes gold insurance, amid an environment of global currency devaluation.
Due in part to the growing theme of negative interest rates, the medium / long-range outlook for the PMs sector continues to improve.
Our guest outlines the options strategies used at Merk Investments, to divine currency volatility and impending market risk.
While equities / bonds appear to be overvalued, which might culminate in a considerable bear market correction, the precious metals are more fairly valued.
Merk Investments research indicates that the optimal investment portfolio melange requires a 20% gold investment.
Merk Investments offers safer alternatives such as a 100% gold backed ETF: (OUNZ).
Bob Hoye, senior investment strategist at Institutional Advisors returns with comments on Dr. Greenspan's recent call for a "Gold Standard."
Dr. Greenspan is now a professed "Gold Bug," and points out that all central banks keep tons of the "barbarous relic" in their stockpiles.
The former Fed Chair notes that under the former gold standard, 1870 to 1913, represents one of the most prosperous periods in US economic history.
In the dialogue, Dr. Greenspan placed the blame for the economic mess on Fiscal decision-making, accepting no responsibility for monetary policy.
Our guest likens the Brexit to the unshackling of modern feudalism, the fall of London's "Berlin Wall" may represent a great success for freedom.
Bob Hoye is also a gold bug - the PMs shares continue to benefit from significantly lower petroleum prices, which decreases overall expenses.
The Brexit gave the Fed policymakers a perfect excuse to halt rate hikes and even cut rates if needed in 2017, to the benefit of equities / PMs investors.
Bob Hoye, senior investment strategist at Institutional Advisors returns with comments on former Fed Head, Dr. Greenspan's recent call for US policymakers to return the monetary system to a "Gold Standard."
Dr. Greenspan is now a professed "Gold Bug," and points out that all central banks keep tons of the "barbarous relic" in their stockpiles.
The former Fed Chair notes that under the former gold standard, 1870 to 1913, represents one of the most preposterous periods in US economic history, which may imply a call for a new monetary system. In the dialogue, Dr. Greenspan placed the blame for the economic mess on Fiscal decision making, accepting no responsibility for monetary policy.
Our guest likens the Brexit to the unshackling of modern feudalism, the fall of London's "Berlin Wall" may represent a great success for freedom and a stumbling block to the globalist agenda of total control.
Bob Hoye is also a gold bug - the PMs shares continue to benefit from significantly lower petroleum prices, which decreases overall expenses, while improving profitability.
The Brexit gave the Fed policymakers a perfect excuse to halt rate hikes and even cut rates if needed in 2017, to the benefit of equities / PMs investors.
James Machuga is the Senior Vice President of Adivsor Services and brings over 7 years of financial services experience to Merk Investments.
Mr. Machuga holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bryant University and has further developed his investment acumen through additional courses in Modern Portfolio Theory.
Mr Machuga began his career at UBS Financial Services working with a wealth management group in Connecticut, before joining Fidelity Investments Institutional Services, Inc., in 2007. At Fidelity, Mr. Machuga was Senior II Regional Investment Consultant with the Wire-House Advisor Group, where he was responsible for the distribution and sale of Fidelity products to financial intermediaries. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 registrations.
Mr. Machuga lives in Boston, Massachusetts and is actively engaged with the community through his volunteer activities focused on restoration and improving the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay region. He enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, competing in challenge course events and running.
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Bob Hoye
Institutional Investors
With a degree in geophysics and a number of fascinating summers in mining exploration, one winter in "the bush" quickly led Bob into the financial markets. This included experience on the trading desk and in the research department of a large investment dealer, which led to institutional stock and bond sales.
Bob's review of financial history provided the forecasting models designed to anticipate significant trend reversals in the sometimes alarming volatility typical of the transition from rampant speculation in tangible assets to fabulous speculation in financial assets.
In anticipation of the latter opportunity, a monthly publication for financial institutions was started in January 1982.
This competently covered the stock market, the yield curve, credit spreads as well as metal and energy prices.
In 1998 the Institutional Advisors website was started as a forum for unique and reliable financial research.
Powell has been managing editor of the Journal Inquirer, a daily newspaper in Manchester, Connecticut, since 1974. He began working at the paper when he left high school in 1967. He writes a column about Connecticut issues that is published in a dozen other newspapers in the state and Rhode Island and often appears on radio and television public-affairs programs in Connecticut.
From 2004 through 2009 he was legislative chairman of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. In 2006 he was inducted into the Academy of New England Journalists by the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.
In addition to the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information, he is a member of the Connecticut, Manchester, and Vernon historical societies and the Churchill Centre.
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