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Real gold, silver, and Bitcoin Managed
Ainslie Wealth manages the Ainslie Bitcoin & Bullion Fund, an Australian wholesale unit trust holding physical metal and Bitcoin.
An Australian wholesale managed fund.
Ainslie Wealth manages the Ainslie Bitcoin & Bullion Fund, a wholesale unit trust holding physical gold, silver, and Bitcoin. The Fund is available only to wholesale investors as defined in s761G of the Corporations Act 2001.
ABN 75 647 626 784
AFSL 560644
s761G Corporations Act
Meet the team.
The Investment Committee and senior team behind the Ainslie Bitcoin & Bullion Fund. Drawing on Ainslie's research to shift allocations as conditions move.
Chris Tipper
Chief Economist and StrategistChris sets the Fund's positioning across Bitcoin and precious metals. He brings two decades of experience analysing macroeconomic cycles and global liquidity, applied through Ainslie's quantitative and AI-supported framework. His research appears across the Macro and Global Liquidity Analysis series, Real Vision, and Mastering the Markets.
Paul Engeman
Chief Investment Officer and DirectorPaul owns the Fund's asset allocation and risk decisions. He has led Ainslie Group's executive team for over 11 years, including its expansion into precious metals and cryptocurrency.
Jamie Coutts
Investment CommitteeJamie sits on the Fund's Investment Committee as its lead digital-asset analyst. He is currently Chief Crypto Analyst at Real Vision, and previously founded Bloomberg Intelligence's digital assets research product. Earlier in his career he worked at Credit Suisse and in Australian stockbroking. He holds CMT and CFTe designations and sits on the global board of the CMT Association.
Joseph Brombal
Research and Analysis ManagerJoseph leads the Fund's research and analysis function, focused on macroeconomic cycles, global liquidity, peak-liquidity dynamics, and gold market structure. He co-hosts the Macro and Global Liquidity Analysis series with Chris Tipper, and contributes to Beyond the Block, Real Vision, and Mastering the Markets.
Paul Bolinowsky
Responsible Manager and Investment CommitteePaul is the Fund's Responsible Manager, accountable for licensing and compliance, and a member of the Investment Committee. His career spans CEO roles across asset management, mutual funds, and hedge funds.
Sam McAnallen
Fund and Business Development ManagerSam manages investor relationships for the Fund and oversees its business development. Before Ainslie, he worked across cryptocurrency, precious metals, and leveraged derivatives markets, advising clients on positioning, risk, and allocation. He also contributes regular financial commentary in written and video formats.
Michael Engeman
Chief Executive Officer
Deanne Du Barrie
Finance Manager
Stephanie Cumming
DirectorJosh Kelly
Marketing ManagerThe Ainslie Group.
The Group began with Ainslie Bullion in 1974. It's now Australia's second-largest independent bullion dealer and a Perth Mint Primary Distributor, with operations across physical bullion, digital assets (Ainslie Crypto, The Gold & Silver Standard), secure storage (Reserve Vault, The Melbourne Vault), and wealth management.
Why Ainslie? +
The Ainslie Group has operated in the Australian precious metals market since 1974. Over more than five decades, the Group has built a bullion business serving over 46,000 Australian clients (the majority repeat) with annual turnover exceeding $1 billion. Ainslie Crypto, the Group's digital assets arm, has been active in Bitcoin since 2017, with a dealing and custody operation that predates the entry of most Australian financial institutions into the asset class.
This scale is the structural foundation of the Fund. Bullion is sourced, traded, and held within the Group's own infrastructure. Bitcoin is acquired through long-established institutional channels. The result is tighter execution, lower spreads, and a transparent chain of custody from purchase through to in-specie redemption.
Bullion is held in Reserve Vault, a world-class vaulting facility originally established by the Reserve Bank of Australia, with all client holdings independently audited quarterly by PKF and insured through Lloyd's of London. Bitcoin is custodied with Zodia, the institutional digital asset custody venture of Standard Chartered Bank and NAB. Dealing, execution, and analytical capability sit within the Group, providing meaningful pricing, execution, and in-specie redemption advantages without compromising the integrity of asset holdings.
The Fund is managed by a senior team with combined experience across precious metals, digital assets, macroeconomic analysis, and global markets, including CMT and CFTe-credentialed market technicians and decades in licensed Funds Management. The Chief Economist's weekly published report is further discussed and analysed in fortnightly publicly available video panel presentations, giving investors and the broader market continuous visibility into the analytical framework guiding the Fund's positioning.
Investors benefit not only from the Fund's strategy, but from the operational depth of a group whose entire business is built around the assets the Fund holds. This alignment, between manager, dealer, vaulting partner, and analytical engine, is rare in the Australian funds management landscape and is, in our view, a meaningful structural advantage.
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