Juan Carlos Artigas is a seasoned financial industry executive with extensive experience in the investment world. Currently, he is the Director of Investment Research at the World Gold Council, where he manages the global Research team and develops timely insights on the gold market. This includes analyzing the drivers of demand and supply, as well as the key attributes of gold as an investment and its role in investor portfolios.
In his role, Juan performs robust financial analysis of gold's performance by incorporating findings from physical and derivatives markets, and their link to macroeconomic and geopolitical dynamics. Additionally, he oversees Goldhub.com, the World Gold Council's website that provides data, insights, and tools to analyze and understand the gold market.
Juan is also responsible for developing the Gold Valuation Framework, an academically validated methodology for understanding gold performance. He has also spearheaded the development of Qaurum, a web-based quantitative tool that calculates gold's implied long-term returns under various macroeconomic scenarios. His expertise and leadership have been instrumental in positioning the World Gold Council as a leading authority on gold investment and market analysis.
"We believe gold's headwinds my start to subside while supportive factors will likely remain, thus encouraging demand for gold as a long-term investment hedge," Artigas said in a note last week.
“Gold actually performed quite well, all things considered,” said Juan Carlos Artigas, Global Head of Research at the World Gold Council. “It was indeed one of the best-performing asset classes of the year.”
"There is more to gold than one specific market," he said. "In the last 30 years, the market has changed a lot and the reality is that gold is as important as ever."
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