30 Under 30 Finance: The Top Young Traders, Bankers And Dealmakers

SOURCE Gold Bullion International LLC (GBI)

Savneet Singh, President/Co-Founder

Savneet Singh, 29, Co-Founder, Gold Bullion International

Mr. Singh was an investment analyst at Chilton Investment Company where he covered investments in the technology, alternative energy and infrastructure space. Prior to Chilton, Mr. Singh was at Morgan Stanley in the investment banking division where he worked on large financial sponsor and strategic company transactions. Mr. Singh received his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and currently serves on the boards of Ecologic Solutions and Stiki Digital.

Savneet was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list, in addition to the Empact 100 list of top 100 Entrepreneurs under 30.

Company Overview

Gold Bullion International (GBI) is a leading institutional precious metals provider to Individual Investors and the wealth management industry. GBI's technology platform allows clients to acquire and manage their precious metals assets directly through GBI or through their existing wealth management account relationships. Precious metals are acquired from dealers that sell London Bullion Market Association recognized brands and stored on behalf of clients in protected and insured vaults in New York, Salt Lake City, London, Zurich, Singapore and Australia. GBI is the safest and most reliable option for precious metals owners.

• GBI was the first precious metals company to technologically integrate onto a wealth management workstation.
• GBI allows clients to own specifically allocated precious metals in a cost effective manner.
• GBI clients can order physical precious metals as simply as one would order a stock or bond.
• GBI’s relationships and technology streamline an antiquated system of purchasing, vaulting and owning physical precious metals.
• GBI clients can own physical metals without the security risk and the high cost of insurance associated with physical ownership in their home or safety deposit box.
• GBI provides unparalleled transparency and security through its partnerships with an internationally recognized auditing firm and approved vaulting partners.
• GBI provides direct delivery of precious metals to clients, subject to the risks, costs and potential devaluation pertaining to precious metals that are out of the approved chain of custody.

February 3, 2012: Gold’s importance has never been as great as it is today, relative to the limited understanding of why it is important.

Here, we place gold within the world economic, political and social context.

World leaders from all walks of life have been gathering in Davos.

It is important for them to realize that the current solutions that have been chosen to deal with the financial systems problems are easy, lazy solutions.

The value of gold is rising because owners of capital realize that their capital is being debased by the world's authorities. Ultimately, gold is not just a commodity or a currency. It is an asset with links to power, wealth, political control, history, freedom, moral values and even the direction of culture.

We are currently in a period where the world's monetary and fiscal authorities have chosen to debase their currencies, either by suppressing interest rates artificially (USA) or by actual policies forcing their currencies to weaken (Switzerland).

The acknowledgement that debasement is a viable solution to problems that have grown over the past 30 years is now more or less acknowledged as the right and proper course of action.

Each of the three main economic players on the stage (the US, Europe and China) currently maintain negative real interest rates and perform some sort of asset purchasing, asset support programs. Free market principles and the discipline that they bring with them are now gone from the scene.

Answers to current economic problems, which themselves were brought on by excess and leverage, are now being solved with added leverage, tinkering and ultimately debasement.

The problem today is not that the dollar has fiat status 'and can be printed up' as so many suggest. The problem is that the total corps of world economic and financial 'leaders,' who get together in remote ski villages, all believe in the same debasement programs. The 'everyone-is-doing-it-so-it-must-be-ok' mentality has prevented real thought from occurring. It killed what might be innovative policy responses to the current problems.

Remarkably, even the ECB, the last holdout of the important central banks has finally succumbed to the world's pressure to monetize fiscal deficits. It is a gesture that is surely the most important in its 12 years of existence.

The killing off of the last of the hard money policymakers (Axel Weber and co.) has almost guaranteed that systematic debasement will occur at an increasing rate and will lead to the continued erosion of savers' capital.

Why is this erosion a bad thing? In the long run it encourages a certain type of morality...upon which almost every great fortune was ever built. Hard work, determination, foresight, savvy, and skill are all characteristics of the owners of capital. That is not to say that poor or unsuccessful people do not have such virtues, just that 'owners of capital' almost always have them.

Debasement of currency - in essence the slow erosion of the value of capital - encourages one to think that saving, and in effect, hard work, in the creation of a lasting endeavor is not something that the culture places value upon.

What is the point of working hard when the government will ultimately support you? And - even if you did work hard - it wouldn't matter because the actual money that you would eventually make would be losing its value by 2% a year in real terms or 4% a year if you lived in the UK.

Bad personal habits are an unfortunate outgrowth of bad economic policy that usually go unrecognized.

However, currency debasement also corrupts the leaders who support such policies. The idea that one can print one's own currency and then use that currency in the way that one likes is too much of a temptation for anyone. Behind such action ultimately lies the need for certain individuals to control the fate and well-being of the rest.

Gold, of course, is not the answer to all the problems. It does, however, have a valuable role to play in limiting the degree of world currency debasement, while at the same time placing a check on political leaders who would want to spend money that isn't theirs, on whichever programs they like.

Gold should stand as an alternative to the world's currencies. It is the only one that cannot be debased, devalued, defaulted upon or over taxed and easily confiscated.

Unlike almost any other large forms of cash, it can be held outside the banking system and the purview of the federal authorities. While the accumulation of gold is hardly a creative or important life endeavor, it stands against the manipulation of central authorities, central banks or central governments.

In recent years, odd as it may seem, one of the largest groups of gold buyers has been the central banks of the emerging world. Somehow, these countries, aware of the debasement programs of the US and Europe (and to some degree China as well) are eager to protect the savings they have accumulated, held in dollars and euros, over the past 10 years.

It might be going too far to say that these central banks and their sovereign entities are repudiating, in a quiet way, the values propagated by reckless spending and currency debasement.

However, as time goes on, and as they allocate more of their savings to gold and hard assets, they will see real wealth increases that are the benefit of their hard work, skill and determination.

The co-authors of this report, Savneet Singh and Dan Tapiero, are the co-founders of Gold Bullion International.