Philip Klapwijk
Philip Klapwijk is an economist specialised in precious metals commodities markets.
After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis. After a management buyout of GFMS in 1988 with Paul Walker and Hester le Roux he became Executive Chairman and Global Head of Metals Analytics. In 2011 has been part of Thomson Reuters.[1].
After leaving GFMS Philip Klapwijk became Managing Director of Precious Metals Insights Limited a Hong Kong based precious metals consultancy company for investors and other institutions. He speaks regularly at conferences on precious metals and other commodities and his views on the gold, silver and PGMs markets are regularly quoted in professional online media sources, the world's financial press[2][3] and in business news channels such as Bloomberg News. In the 2009 London bullion market LBMA Forecast Philip Klapwijk was awarded the prizes for the year's most accurate economic forecaster for both gold and silver prices[4].
External links
- Precious Metals Insights Limited Official site
- Philip Klapwijk's article in June 2013 for www.bullionbulletin.in
- Philip Klapwijk News at Bloomberg.com
- Philip Klapwijk News at Moneycontrol.com, India
- Mines and Money Hong Kong Keynote speaker 2012
- Kitco News interview regarding silver markets 2012
- Text of speech at the The LBMA Precious Metals Conference 2005 in Johannesburg South Africa
- Presentation at the The LBMA Precious Metals Conference 2012 in Hong Kong
- Articles in The Economic Times, India
- Mining MX, Rainmakers & Potstirrers, Mexico profile of Philip Klapwijk
- Business Standard, India Question & answer session 2011
- Hard Assets Investor interview 2010
- Seeking Alpha interview text 2009
- Think Exist Philip Klapwijk quotes
References
- ^ "Company History GFMS Thomson Reuters". GFMS. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Gold bears eye fall". FT.com. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ "Gold price boom will end". thisismoney.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ^ "Press release for the 2009 LBMA Forecast winners" (PDF). LBMA. Retrieved 5 January 2010.