51: Kitco Global Trade Director, Peter Hug’s Views on Markets and Metals

Peter Hug is the Director of Global Trade at Kitco Metals Inc, which has retail and online departments for trading metals as well as a news division called Kitco News. Peter is one of a handful of experts who have succeeded through multiple bull and bear cycles using skills honed during the dramatic fluctuations of the 1980s. Prior to joining Kitco, Peter served as Senior Vice President at Guardian Trust Company, now a part of Laurentian Bank, which became one of the largest international trading houses for precious metals.

With equity markets surging, we wanted to hear from Peter on his views of precious metals, where they belong in your investment portfolio and how fed and geo-political variables can affect prices. Peter also shares with us daily operations at Kitco and some interesting insights to the purchasing of physical metals.

Links:

Kitco

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Where are we:

Peter - California

Discussed:

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Book:

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Time Stamps:

03:15 - Peter’s background

04:57 - The face of Kitco

06:48 - Equity market since Trump's election

11:48 - Peter’s personal asset allocation model

12:48 - Should you buy gold?

21:14 - Hong Kong gold crafts

25:11 - Buying gold from the US government

30:10 - Silver and gold % in your portfolio

32:57 - Fed raises rates and inflation

34:50 - Buying mints for liquidity

37:23 - Agnostic gold

39:45 - Highest volume coin in retail store

40:44 - Who buys good delivery bars

42:38 - Johnny’s father is alive because of gold

43:59 - Stealing $20,000 of gold coin

46:06 - Carrying a gold coin in your pocket

49:26 - Trading Cryptocurrencies in the future

50:42 - Investing in precious metals

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