Podcast interview: Financial journalist Lars Schall talked with highly respected Singapore-based fund manager Grant Williams about, inter alia: the philosophy of gold and money; gold as “power money”; the bad effects of central bank interventions; the Swiss Goldinitiative; and the question whether gold will become the ultimate bubble in the future after the bubbles in bonds and equities will have popped.

By Lars Schall

The following interview was conducted for and originally published here by Matterhorn Asset MGMT in Zurich, Switzerland.

Grant Williams is the portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore — a hedge fund running over $280 million of largely partners’ capital across multiple strategies. For more information on Vulpes, please visit here. Grant has almost 30 years of experience in finance on the Asian, Australian, European and US markets and has held senior positions at several international investment houses. Since 2009 he has been writing the regular column “Things That Make You Go Hmmm…” – see here.

Here is an article that Grant Williams mentions during the podcast interview with Lars Schall: “Deus ex machina”.