GFMS is the world's foremost precious metals consultancy, specialising in research into the global gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets.

GFMS is based in London, UK, but has representation in Australia, India, China, Germany, France, Spain and Russia, and a vast range of contacts and associates across the world.

Our research team of fifteen full-time analysts comprises qualified and experienced economists and geologists; while two consultants contribute insights on important regional markets.

Executive Chairman Philip Klapwijk and CEO Paul Walker appear regularly at international conferences and seminars, and their articles have been widely published. All analysts travel regularly and extensively to stay in touch with GFMS' unrivalled network of contacts and sources of information around the world.

We are:

Independent - GFMS can claim to be the only genuinely independent researchers of the gold market, as we do not rely solely on financial support from one sector of the industry. You can trust us to give it to you straight.

Informed - with over 15,000 contacts on our database, we know exactly who to speak to. Our reputation has also given us access to a wide range of unpublished commercial and official data - backbones for our research that no other organisation enjoys. We are informed to keep you informed.

International - no other consultancy has the international reach of GFMS. - Not only do we have an unrivalled travel programme for our London based staff - they visited 49 countries in the last 2 years - but also GFMS now has permanent analysts in Russia, China, India and Australia. If you really want to know what is happening across the globe, GFMS are the people you should be speaking to.

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