Alasdair Macleod
Author & Head of Research @ Goldmoney
Alasdair Macleod has over 50 years of experience in financial markets, with a focus on monetary history, systemic risk, and the enduring roll of gold.
He began his career at the London Stock Exchange in 1970, rising to Senior Partner by 1979, and has held senior roles in fund management and private banking, including as Investment Director at Ansbacher (CI) Ltd in Guernsey.
A long-standing commentator on precious metals and unsound monetary policy, Alasdair is widely respected for his clarity, depth, and commitment to helping investors understand how to preserve wealth outside a failing fiat system.
In 2024, he launched his independent platform via Substack, where he continues to provide monetary insights to a global audience.
Alasdair’s expertise enhances our capacity to deliver informed, long-term guidance to our clients.
Alasdair Macleod Articles
This week an article in Euromoney points out that liquidity in bond markets is drying up. The blame is laid at the door of regulations designed to increase banks' capital relative to their balance sheets. Furthermore, the article informs...
On Wednesday Finland gave in to public pressure and revealed where she stores her gold reserves. The statement followed a press release by the Bank of Sweden on similar lines released on Monday.
China is now overtly pushing for the US dollar to be replaced as the world’s reserve currency. Xinhua, China’s official press agency on Sunday ran an op-ed article which kicked off as follows:
Recently the GoldMoney Foundation published an article proposing a new measure of money supply, the Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ), so that a direct comparison can be made between gold and currency, principally US dollars. This has two...
Put simply, so long as a central bank decides to hold interest rates at a chosen level and is prepared to provide liquidity to any bank that requires it, the central bank stands in the market to offer unlimited quantities of money at the...
There is some evidence in the UK of a pick-up in consumer spending, probably echoed elsewhere. There are two likely factors behind this, the first perhaps being seasonal, aided by the fine weather. The second is less obvious, but combines...
