Gold has always been a popular investment vehicle for the world’s wealthiest so it was quite a surprise to hear that that isn’t the case here in the Philippines. According to Joshua Rotbart, founder and managing partner of J. Rotbart and Co., while there is an acknowledgment of gold as a precious metal and a thriving, ground level buy-and-sell industry, there has been no formal system of gold trading here in the country until their company opened a Manila office earlier this year