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Monty Guild

Founder,

Guild Investment Management

  • Chief Investment Office at Guild Investment Management
  • Founded Guild Investment Management in 1971
  • Publisher of Guild's Market Commentary

About Monty

Monty Guild founded Guild Investment Management in 1971. He serves as the chief investment officer and co-manages clients' accounts with Anthony Danaher. Prior to founding Guild, he was a securities analyst at Taurus Partners, LP and Security Pacific Bank. Over the years, he has become a widely recognized and quoted author, speaker, and commentator on international investing and economics in leading business and financial media. Since 2003, he has published Guild's Market Commentary, a review of global market trends and conditions sent weekly to clients and subscribers. Mr. Guild supervises the investment and research functions at Guild Investment Management. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a BA in economics, and received his MBA in finance with highest honors from California State University, Long Beach.

Monty's Articles

We believe the beginning of 2023 will likely bring a recession and more stock market declines — perhaps beginning between now and the end of January, forecasts Monty Guild, money manager and editor of Guild Investment Market Commentary.
Recent remarks from Fed Chair Powell essentially confirmed that the FOMC will be slowing the pace of rate rises — the conventional wisdom being that December will feature a 50-basis-point hike rather than another consecutive 75-basis-point hike, observes Monty Guild in Guild Investment Management's Market Commentary.
It’s been an unpleasant year for investors — especially for those who sought comfort in bonds, or who were locked into traditional 60/40 portfolios. Globally, government bonds are on track for the worst year since 1949, observes Monty Guild in Guild Investment Management's Market Commentary.
Given how conflicted so many market participants seem to be, it is worthwhile to offer a brief rundown of the case to be made on each side of the market, bull vs. bear, suggests Monty Guild, money manager and editor of Guild Investment Management's Global Market Commentary.

Monty's Videos

Playing it safe is the name of the game for many investors these days as the current bull market gets longer in the tooth. But, safe doesn't mean sitting idly as your money loses value in miserly poorly paying money market accounts or investing in dicey high-yield bond funds. But, how do you get a decent income return without risking your principal? A group of the industry's brightest income investing experts offer strategies for creating a safer, higher-income-generating portfolio, without taking on uncomfortably higher levels of risk.

  • Discuss current global market problems and their coming solutions.

  • Explain why the strong US dollar is attracting money to the US and away from non US stock markets.

  • Explain why US after tax income growth per capita, the most important US economic statistic for individuals and very strong US corporate profits which is the most important economic statistic for the stock market indicate a continued strong economy, consumer spending and a rising stock market in the US.



  • Discuss current global market problems and their coming solutions.

  • Explain why the strong US dollar is attracting money to the US and away from non US stock markets.

  • Explain why US after tax income growth per capita, the most important US economic statistic for individuals and very strong US corporate profits which is the most important economic statistic for the stock market indicate a continued strong economy, consumer spending and a rising stock market in the US.


  • 2017 was the year Bitcoin went mainstream. We'll discuss digital currencies and blockchain technologies -- how they work, what they're for, and what the arrival of this new asset class means for investors. We'll look at digital currencies whose characteristics may have an impact on the price of gold, and we'll discuss strategies that speculators can apply as they search for the emerging crypto assets with exponential potential.






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