Axel Merk

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  7 Reasons Gold Is Falling: Currency Manager Merk

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 16, 2013

  A gold brick is still a brick, and hurts just as much when it falls on your foot, Axel Merk says.

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  Currency Manager Merk on Cyprus and Why PIMCO’s El-Erian Is Wrong

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 26, 2013

  Merk doesn’t buy the PIMCO chief's argument that time will heal the crisis.

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  Inflation Boogeyman Will Strike Suddenly—Be Prepared: Merk, Goolgasian

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  October 5, 2012

  Someday, in the possibly near future, you will suddenly be paying $10 for a gallon of milk and wondering how it happened so fast.

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  Global Investing and Election: 6 Key Strategies by 6 Top Analysts

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  October 4, 2012

  To sort out the pros and cons of international investing this election season, AdvisorOne went straight to the source for some of the best commentary from thought leaders in asset management.

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  Currency Manager Axel Merk Talks Money as Inflation Hedge

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  October 2, 2012

  “It’s still an asset class investors are not sufficiently looking at,” says Merk, president and CIO of Merck Investments.

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  Merk Funds’ President Calls Draghi ‘Pure Genius’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 7, 2012

  Draghi told the world that the ECB will act like a central bank of a United States of Europe.

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  Bernanke Strategy Won’t Work: Merk

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 10, 2012

  As Fed chairman Ben Bernanke keeps interest rates low to combat the possibility of a depression, says Merk, he’s inviting inflation—which may not be as easy to fight as Bernanke may believe.

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  5 Top Alternative Funds

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 26, 2012

  So-called alternative funds offer just what they advertise: non-correlated assets in a convenient ’40 Act wrapper.

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  Axel Merk: How to Save the Euro

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 30, 2011

  Can the euro be saved? Short answer—yes, but it will take some doing, says currency manager AxeI Merk. In commentary released Wednesday, Merk examines what he calls 'the dual challenges of fiscal sustainability and bank solvency' which are key to the euro’s recovery.

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  Axel Merk: Is Occupy Wall Street a Threat to the Dollar?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  October 27, 2011

  Will the Occupy Wall Street protests have a detrimental effect on the dollar? No doubt some protesters hope so, and currency manager Axel Merk says the notion isn’t farfetched.