John Butler is a seasoned, international financial professional with a wide variety of industry experience. Working as an investment strategist and portfolio structurer for 25 years, John has advised many of the world's largest institutional investors and central banks. He has served as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and Dresdner Bank, in charge of global teams responsible for macro and commodity strategy and has been ranked #1 for interest rate strategy by Institutional Investor Magazine.
He has also worked in FinTech, most recently as the Head of Treasury for FinTech startup TallyMoney. Prior he served as Director and CEO of the Lend and Borrow Trust Company, the world’s only regulated peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform on which all loans are collateralised by physically-allocated precious metals. He also served as Vice President and Head of Wealth Services for Goldmoney, the world's leading gold-backed financial services firm.
John is on the record having predicted some of the most important global financial events during his career, including a secular bull market in gold and a US-centric housing and credit bubble that would eventually burst. In 2016, he predicted that a series of balance of payments crises would ripple through emerging markets. In 2019, he predicted that inflation would begin to surge and 'stagflation' would set in thereafter.
John's publications include The Golden Revolution (John Wiley and Sons, 2012), and The Golden Revolution, Revisited (2017), books explaining the causes and consequences of the 2008 global financial crisis and exploring the financial market implications of global monetary regime change.
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