Eric Sprott

Eric Sprott founded Sprott Asset Management in 2001 after decades running Sprott Securities. His firm became one of the largest precious metals-focused asset managers globally, offering physical gold and silver trusts, streaming royalties, and mining equity funds. Sprott has been a consistent and vocal advocate for gold as a monetary alternative, warning of fiat currency debasement long before the 2008 financial crisis. His Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS) and Silver Trust (PSLV) became vehicles for institutional and retail exposure to physical metals. His early warnings about monetary system fragility and currency debasement, which seemed extreme when he first articulated them, gained far more mainstream credibility following the extraordinary quantitative easing programs launched by central banks globally after 2008 and again in 2020, validating the core thesis that had underpinned his precious metals investment philosophy for years.