Jeff Christian: The CPM Gold Yearbook 2012

Jim is pleased to welcome back Jeff Christian to discuss CPM Group's Gold Yearbook 2012. CPM Gold Yearbook 2012 is the most comprehensive source of information, statistics, and analysis on the international gold market. The report begins with a thorough review of gold market trends and fundamentals. It continues by assessing the impact of economic and financial market trends on the gold market. The Yearbook concludes with an in-depth analysis of each gold market segment, including mine production, secondary recovery, bullion and futures market activity, central bank holdings and transactions, fabrication demand, investment demand, prices, and other important aspects of the gold market.

CPM Group was founded in 1986 by Jeffrey M. Christian. Mr. Christian was previously the head of commodities research at J. Aron & Company, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Christian formed CPM group through a management buy-out of the commodities research group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. with the vision to provide independent market leading research on the commodities markets to a variety of customers ranging from sovereign governments to investment funds.