Category Archive: 6a.) Ronan Manly (Bullionstar)

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Ronan Manly
Ronan Manly is an investment professional and research analyst with an interest in the monetary gold market. His career has taken him from Dublin to London, New York, and Frankfurt, in roles spanning portfolio management, stockbroking, and technology, working for companies including Dimensional Fund Advisors and Morgan Stanley. In his time, Ronan has collected various economic and finance degrees, most recently a Master's in Finance from London Business School.
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Central Banks Care about the Gold Price – Enough to Manipulate it!

2018-03-30

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2018-03-30

Gold for Oil
In early March, RT.com, the Russian based media network, asked me for comments and opinion on the subject of central bank manipulation of gold prices. The comments and opinion that I supplied to RT became the article that RT then exclusively published on its website on 18 March under the title “Central banks manipulating & suppressing gold prices – industry expert to RT“. This article is now transcribed below, here on the BullionStar website.

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Why the World’s Central Banks hold Gold – In their Own Words

2018-03-22

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2018-03-22

World Official Gold Holdings, February 2018
Collectively, the central bank sector claims to hold the world’s largest above ground gold bar stockpile, some 33,800 tonnes of gold bars. Individually within this group, some central banks claim to be the top holders of gold bullion in the world, with individual holdings in the thousands of tonnes range.

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Ronan Manly Will Economics Dictate a Gold Price Rise?

2018-02-17

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The Matterhorn Interview- April 2016 For Matterhorn Asset Management, Lars Schall spoke with Ronan Manly, who is an investment professional and research analyst with an interest in the monetary. Subscribe to our Free Financial Newsletter: We have an expert in Gold with us today, Ronan Manly from BullionStar will be discussing the disconnection between Physical. …

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Central Banks and The Gold Markets – Ronan Manly Interview

2018-01-29

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The Matterhorn Interview- April 2016 For Matterhorn Asset Management, Lars Schall spoke with Ronan Manly, who is an investment professional and research analyst with an interest in the monetary. Subscribe to our Free Financial Newsletter: We have an expert in Gold with us today, Ronan Manly from BullionStar will be discussing the disconnection between Physical. …

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US Gold Reserves, Of Immense Interest to Russia and China

2018-01-22

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2018-01-22

Russia China Real Gold Standart
Recently, Russian television network RT extensively quoted me in a series of articles about the US Government’s gold reserves. The RT articles, published on the RT.com website, were based on a series of questions RT put to me about various aspects of the official US gold reserves. These gold reserves are held by the US Treasury, mostly in the custody of the US Mint. The US Mint is a branch of the US Treasury.

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Russia, China and BRICS: A New Gold Trading Network

2017-12-12

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2017-12-12

Deputy Governors
One of the most notable events in Russia’s precious metals market calendar is the annual “Russian Bullion Market” conference. Formerly known as the Russian Bullion Awards, this conference, now in its 10th year, took place this year on Friday 24 November in Moscow. Among the speakers lined up, the most notable inclusion was probably Sergey Shvetsov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s central bank, the Bank of Russia.

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Neck and Neck: Russian and Chinese Official Gold Reserves

2017-10-17

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2017-10-17

Russian Central Bank Gold Reserves, 1994 - 2016
Official gold reserve updates from the Russian and Chinese central banks are probably one of the more closely watched metrics in the gold world. After the US, Germany, Italy and France, the sovereign gold holdings of China and Russia are the world’s 5th and 6th largest. And with the gold reserves ‘official figures’ of the US, Germany, Italy and France being essentially static, the only numbers worth watching are those of China and Russia.

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Ronan Manly-Can China Impact the Fraudulent London Paper Gold Markets?

2017-08-23

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Ronan Manly, explains how an honest gold bullion market in Shanghai could put pressure on western gold markets to correct price distortion caused by the paper futures markets?

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The West lost at least another 1000 tonnes of large gold bars in 2015

2017-08-14

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2017-08-14

Kilobars
Over the last number of years, one of the most interesting trends in the physical gold world is the ongoing conversion of large 400 ounce gold bars into smaller high purity 1 kilogram gold bars to meet the insatiable demand of Asian gold markets such as China and India.

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Unveiling the Silver in the LBMA London vaults

2017-07-09

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2017-07-09

Pallet
Sometime in the coming days, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) plans to begin reporting the amount of real physical gold and silver that is actually stored in the network of LBMA vaults in London. This follows an announcement made by the LBMA on 8 May.

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Synthetic Gold Holdings Are An Accident Waiting To Happen (w/ Ronan Manly) | Gold | Real Vision™

2017-07-07

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The only financial TV that matters. Start a 30 day trial on Real Vision to watch this interview in full: https://rvtv.io/2Jfe8UQ Ronan Manly brings an investment banking background to his analysis of the London gold market, which is dominated by a handful of bullion banks and huge unallocated positions. An inability to convert these positions …

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Are the World’s Billionaire Investors Actually Buying Gold?

2017-06-24

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2017-06-24

Roths
The 4 investors profiled in the infographic are: Jacob Rothschild (Lord), chairman of London-based investment trust RIT Capital Partners Plc, David Einhorn, president of Manhattan-based hedge fund firm Greenlight Capital, Ray Dalio, chairman and CIO of hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates, Westport (Connecticut), Stanley Druckenmiller, chairman and CEO of Manthattan-based Duquesne Family Office (and formerly of Duquesne Capital Management).

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Switzerland: A Who’s Who of Central Bankers

2017-06-13

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2017-06-13

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Headquarters
A central bank Gold Pool which many people will be familiar with operated in the gold market between November 1961 and March 1968. That Gold Pool was known as the London Gold Pool.

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Liberty Silvers ädelmetallseminarium i Göteborg – Ronan Manly

2017-06-13

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Info will follow in english. I februari anordnade Liberty Silver ett ädelmetallseminarium i Göteborg. Kvällen började med en företagspresentation av Liberty Silvers VD Mikael From följt av en föreläsning av Liberty Silvers grundare Torgny Persson. Torgny berättade om prismanipulation på ädelmetallmarknaden och bullionbanker. Därefter intog den irländske ädelmetallanalytikern Ronan Manly scenen och föreläste om centralbanker …

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Basle: Part 2 – Pool vs Gold for Oil

2017-05-26

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2017-05-26

Gold Price, Spetember 1979 - April 1980
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. The series focuses on collusive discussions and meetings that took place between the world’s most powerful central bankers in late 1979 and 1980 in an attempt to launch a central bank Gold Pool cartel to manipulate and control the free market price of gold. The meetings centered around the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basle, Switzerland.

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Basle, Switzerland: Part 1

2017-05-21

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2017-05-21

“In the Governor’s absence I attended the meeting in Zijlstra’s room in the BIS on the afternoon of Monday, 10th December to continue discussions about a possible gold pool. Emminger, de la Geniere, de Strycker, Leutwiler, Larre and Pohl were present.”  

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An update on SGE Vault Withdrawals and SGE Price Premiums

2017-05-20

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2017-05-20

SGE Gold Withdrawals, 2008 - May 2017
In 2016, withdrawals of gold from the Shanghai Gold Exchange totalled 1970 tonnes, the 4th highest annual total on record. This was 24% less than SGE gold withdrawals recorded in 2015, which reached a cumulative 2596 tonnes (See Koos Jansen’s 6 January 2017 blog at BullionStar “How The West Has Been Selling Gold Into A Black Hole” for more details of the 2016 withdrawals).

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BullionStar’s Ronan Manly interviewed by Crush the Street

2017-05-16

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Kenneth Ameduri of Crush the Street interviews BullionStar’s Ronan Manly. The conversation covers such topics as the disconnect between physical and paper gold, and the secrecy with which central banks operate in the gold market.

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Bank of England releases new data on its gold vault holdings

2017-05-04

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2017-05-04

An article in February on BullionStar’s website titled “A Chink of Light into London’s Gold Vaults?” discussed an upcoming development in the London Gold Market, namely that both the Bank of England (BoE) and the commercial gold vault providers in London planned to begin publishing regular data on the quantity of physical gold actually stored in their gold vaults.

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Sweden’s Gold Reserves: 10,000 gold bars (pet rocks) shrouded in Official Secrecy

2017-04-28

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2017-04-28

In February 2017 while preparing for a presentation in Gothenburg about central bank gold, I emailed Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, enquiring whether the Riksbank physically audits Sweden’s gold and whether it would provide me with a gold bar weight list of Sweden’s gold reserves (gold bar holdings). The Swedish official gold reserves are significant and amount to 125.7 tonnes, making the Swedish nation the world’s 28th largest official gold...

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