Dudley BakerDudley Pierce Baker is the owner/editor of Precious Metals Warrants. Dudley started this unique investment service in March 2005 and has a worldwide subscriber base providing complete details on all warrants trading on the natural resources shares as well as opening up his entire portfolio in his, “A Look Over My Shoulder”.
Dudley has been an investor for many years. With a major in Accounting he went to work for the Internal Revenue Service as an IRS Agent. The intent was to spend 5 years or so, learn as much as possible and then get ‘a real job’; but now looking back, this ‘early retirement’ has worked out great. ’Yes, many of you may not like this IRS thing, but, that was many years ago and he accepted an early retirement in 1996 at age 50 and 29 years of service.
Many of his years were as a ‘Revenue Agent – Team Coordinator’ heading up the audits of some of the largest corporations in the world, and going head to head with some of the big law firms in Washington and New York. Those years and experiences are but a distant memory and he currently does not represent any clients, nor in anyway offer tax advice. He comes from a numbers’ background and that is what should be important to you as a subscriber or potential subscriber to his service.
Dudley follows many of the top analysts and newsletter writers and resides in Ajijic, Mexico.
Chris BerryChris Berry, with a lifelong interest in geopolitics and the financial issues that emerge from these relationships, founded House Mountain Partners in 2010. The firm focuses on the evolving geopolitical relationship between emerging and developed economies, the commodity space and junior mining and resource stocks positioned to benefit from this phenomenon. Chris holds an MBA in finance with an international focus from Fordham University, and a BA in international studies from The Virginia Military Institute.
Jeff BerwickA self-described financial freedom fighter, Jeff Berwick founded Canada’s largest financial website, Stockhouse.com, in 1994. The company expanded worldwide into 8 different countries and had a market capitalization of $240 million USD at the peak of the “tech bubble”. He was the CEO from 1994 until 2002 when he sold the company and still continued on as a director afterwards until 2007. Stockhouse.com was and still is used by nearly a million investors.
After selling Stockhouse, Berwick went forth to travel the world by sailboat but after one year of sailing his boat sank in a storm off the coast of El Salvador. After being saved clinging to his surfboard with nothing but a pair of surfing shorts left of his material possessions he decided to travel the world as spontaneously as possible with one overarching goal: See and understand the world with his own eyes, not through the lens of the media.
During this time he met and spoke with a plethora of amazing people, from self-made billionaires to some of the brightest minds in finance – as well as entrepreneurs running street noodle carts in Shanghai and Tacos Al Pastor stalls in the smallest of towns in Mexico. He also read everything he could find on how the world really works politically and financially – a pursuit he continues to this day.
He is now the founder and Chief Editor of The Dollar Vigilante, a free-market financial newsletter with its groundings in Austrian economics.
Sean BrodrickWhen Sean Brodrick graduated college with a journalism degree, he experienced the Internet boom and bust firsthand as the personal finance website he worked for suffered a spectacular flameout. The experience of being dumped on the curb with a handful of useless stock options gave him an appreciation for real assets. Today, Sean’s specialty is natural resources … especially the little-known, undervalued foreign stocks he picks as likely to ride the next wave of the commodity supercycle.
Sean has a trio of services — Crisis Profit Hunter, Red-Hot Commodity ETFs and Red-Hot Global Small-Caps. He also contributes weekly to UncommonWisdomDaily.com. His special reports, including “The Golden Age of Green Energy” and “The New Gold Rush – to $2,000 and Beyond,” have gathered accolades from investors and industry insiders alike. And his book, The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, which helps prepares readers for all sorts of physical and economic crises, hit Amazon.com’s best-seller list.
Sean is a weekly guest on one of Canada’s premiere financial websites, HoweStreet.com, and from time to time he makes appearances on various U.S. radio and TV news programs. He contributes semi-regularly to Dow Jones Marketwatch.
He travels far and wide to seek out small-cap values in the natural resource sector.
Thom CalandraThom Calandra is best known for his current work at Stockhouse,and for past work at CBS MarketWatch, where he identified undervalued companies on behalf of investor audiences. Thom has become an industry leader in natural resources, evaluating companies first-hand on extensive property tours. He works with Torrey Hills Capital of San Diego, where he identifies promising, early-stage companies, primarily in the natural resource sectors. As a financial and investment journalist,Thom has “written up” natural resource companies for more than 30 years He is a co-founder of Stockhouse’s Ticker Trax and of CBS MarketWatch. . He has written, edited and broadcast for The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, London’s Financial Times, Bloomberg, USA Today and others.
Brent CookBrent Cook, a renowned Exploration Analyst and Geologist, is the author of Exploration Insights, a mining and exploration investment letter. He has over twenty-five years of experience providing economic and geologic evaluations to major mining companies, resource funds and investors. He has worked in over 50 countries on virtually every mineral deposit type on projects ranging from grassroots projects through feasibility studies and bank audits. He was principal Mining and Exploration Analyst to Global Resource Investments through 2003 where he provided analysis to retail brokers and two in-house funds. His newsletter selectively covers junior mining and exploration investment opportunities.
Adrian DayAdrian Day is considered a pioneer in promoting the benefits of global investing in this country. A native of London, after graduating with honors from the London School of Economics, Mr. Day spent many years as a financial investment writer, where he gained a large following for his expertise in searching out unusual investment opportunities around the world. He has also authored two books on the subject of global investing: International Investment Opportunities: How and Where to Invest Overseas Successfully and Investing Without Borders.
Mr. Day is a recognized authority in both global and resource investing. He is frequently interviewed by the press, domestically and abroad. He is a popular speaker and frequently invited to lecture at financial conferences and seminars around the world. His pleasures include fine dining, reading (especially history), and the opera.
David FranklinDavid joined Sprott Asset Management Inc. in 2008 as a Research Analyst and divided his time between Sprott Asset Management LP and Sprott Consulting. David’s main focus was on equity research within the precious metals and materials sectors. In April 2009 David became the co-author of the monthly “Markets at a Glance” articles with Eric Sprott and subsequently became “Market Strategist” in February 2010.
David was named CEO of Sprott Private Wealth in March 2011 and now oversees the business unit of Sprott that provides wealth management services to high-net worth individuals, foundations and trusts. A frequent guest speaker at conferences across the globe, David has also been featured in numerous newspaper articles and television shows, providing insights on the ever changing financial landscape. David is also a former director of a publicly listed australian gold company. David previously worked at Integral Wealth Securities and Toll Cross Securities in Institutional Equity Sales. He has an Honours Degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and has over 7 years of experience in the financial industry.
Mickey FulpThe Mercenary Geologist Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences with honor from the University of Tulsa, and M.Sc. Geology from the University of New Mexico. Mickey has over 30 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, oil and gas, and water in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist for the past 22 years, specializing in geological mapping, property evaluation, and business development. In addition to Mickey’s professional credentials and experience, he is high-altitude proficient and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2003 to 2006, Mickey made four outcrop ore discoveries in Peru, Nevada, Chile, and British Columbia.
Mickey is well-known throughout the mining and exploration community for his ongoing work as an analyst, newsletter writer, and speaker.
Ian GordonIan Gordon, Analyst & Chairman, The Long Wave Group – It wasn’t until 1983 that Ian entered the financial realm. He worked as a stock broker in Ontario for eight years before working in Management for three more years in Toronto and Vancouver. It was 1998 when Ian determined that the Long Wave Theory was too compelling to ignore any longer. He began writing the Long Wave Analyst and re-entered the sales side of the business. He accurately predicted the end of the massive equity bull market and also accurately predicted the beginnings of the current gold bull market. By 2003, Ian was the #1 performer at Canaccord Capital (Canada’s largest independent brokerage firm)—a position he maintained until he left the firm in late 2005. The same Long Wave principles that have guided Ian for the last decade are just as relevant today as they were a decade ago.
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John KaiserJohn Kaiser heads Kaiser Research Online, a San Francisco based information portal for resource companies that tracks sector trends and evaluates companies in the context of the “rational speculation model” John developed during his 30 year career as an analyst and independent newsletter writer.
Al KorelinAlexander Korelin has been involved in the financial community since 1967 when he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington with a dual major in Economics and Russian literature. He went on to receive his Masters in Business Administration degree, with an emphasis Finance and International Trade, from the University of Puget Sound in 1978.
He founded A.B. Korelin and Associates in 1982. The focus of the Company has always been on the mining industry. Al and his associates specialize in completing the regulatory work that needed to be done in order for Canadian mining companies to be traded in the United States on major exchanges.
In addition to his regulatory work, Al was an active member of the Board of Directors of American Pacific Bank for twenty two years. As a Director of the Bank, he oversaw its evolution from a small private, rural community institution located in Aumsville, Oregon to one with its headquarters in downtown Portland and trading on Nasdaq. During his twenty two year tenure, he served on many of the Bank’s Management Committees; participated in meetings with the Federal Reserve; and, retired when the Bank was purchased by a major banking institution.
Jim LetourneauJim Letourneau, P.Geol. is the founder and editor of the Big Picture Speculator investment newsletter, and a professional geologist living in Calgary, with 25 years experience in the oil and gas sector. His unique perspective as a professional geologist, dynamic speaker, communicator and investor, is sought as a valuable source of information on continuing developments in the resource sector.
Mr. Letourneau is frequently interviewed in the national media, including the CBC and Globe and Mail.
Jack LiftonJack Lifton is a consultant, author, and lecturer on the present and projected future market fundamentals of the technology metals, the name he has given to those strategic rare metals the electronic properties of which make our technological society possible. These include the rare earth metals group, lithium, and most of the 32 “rare metals,” defined by Jack as “those metals produced at a rate below 32,000 MT/year in 2009.” Jack advises both OEM high tech industry and the global institutional investment community on the natural resource issues that impact either a proposed business model or a high volume manufacturing plan for the mass market. His work today is principally as a due diligence consultant for institutional investors looking into opportunities where rare and technology metals availability are a factor in determining the probability of commercial success of a metals related venture.
Jack Lifton, educated as a physical chemist specializing in high temperature metallurgy, was first a researcher, then both a marketing and a manufacturing executive, and, finally, a metal trader specializing in the field of technology metals and of rare metals. Today, after 48 years of industry involvement he focuses on consulting, writing, and speaking about rare metals and technology metals. Jack Lifton is also the co-founding principal of Technology Metals Research, www.techmeatlsresearch.com. A commercial information and analysis resource at which he also publishes on a wide variety of metals related topics for the general public.
Ian McAvityIan McAvity has been writing his “Deliberations on World Markets” Newsletter since 1972 for a global readership. His letter is based on chart, technical and inter-market relationship analysis, a market historian’s perspective, an old fashioned philosophic approach to money and outspoken free-market views on finance and geo-political events. His historical charts have won acclaim over the years, with frequent references to him as a “Chartist’s chartist.”
He draws on 49 years experience in the world of finance since 1961, as a banker, stockbroker, and independent advisor/entrepreneur since 1975. In the 1980’s & 1990’s he was a director of many junior mining & exploration companies.
He was a founding director/advisor of Central Fund of Canada, the NY/AMEX listed (CEF) closed end, $3.5 billion bullion entity holding 47 tonnes of gold and 2340 tonnes of physical silver. CEF is the original stock exchange traded bullion proxy since 1983, with all bullion held in Canada’s largest bank, in allocated and segregated safekeeping. He is also a trustee of Central Gold-Trust, (GTU-NY/AMEX) ($800 million, holding 19 tonnes of gold); Silver Bullion Trust (SBT.UN-TSX), and CEO of Duncan Park Holdings Corp, a junior explorer.
Rob McEwenRob McEwen has been associated with the mining industry for 29 years. His career began in the investment industry, and then in 1990 he stepped into the mining sector. Rob is the founder of Goldcorp Inc., where he took the company from a market capitalization of $50 million to over $8 billion. Rob is currently the Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Minera Andes, US Gold and of Lexam VG Gold, exploring for gold, silver, copper in Canada, USA, Mexico and Argentina. Some of Rob’s awards: 2000: Business Week elects Goldcorp as one of 50 most innovative companies on the web worldwide; 2002: Ernst & Young’s Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year Award-Energy; 2003: Northern Miners’ Mining Man of the Year; 2004: Outstanding Achievement Award “Philanthropy” by the Canada Museum Association; 2005: Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from York University; 2006: Most Innovative CEO by Canadian Business Magazine; 2007: Order of Canada
Axel MerkAxel Merk is the President and CIO of Merk Investments, manager of the Merk Funds. An authority on currencies, he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. Axel Merk is a sought after speaker and author on topics ranging from the economy, gold and currencies to sustainable wealth and personal finance, as well as a regular guest and contributor to the business media around the world.
Mr. Merk manages the Merk Hard and Asian Currency Funds and co-manages the Merk Absolute Return Currency Fund. He holds a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Jon NadlerJon Nadler’s thirty three year professional career has focused exclusively on precious metals.
He established and managed successful retail precious metals operations at major private bullion firms and at large financial institutions.
He has consulted on precious metals marketing and product development issues to a wide range of clients such as government mints precious metals retailers, as well as to trade and membership organizations
Tom O’BrienTom O’Brien is the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Tom O’Brien Show”, author of the Amazon.com bestseller “Tom O’Brien’s Timing The Trade; How Price & Volume Move Markets”, editor of the wildly popular gold letter “The Gold Report” and CEO of TFNN Corp, a premier investor education company that produces diversified radio content, educational materials, investment/health newsletters, and various web and print content.
Mr. O’Brien is also a frequent contributor to major financial news outlets like CNBC, Fox Business, Forbes.com and more. In addition, he features top rated contributors on his radio program like Steve Forbes, William O’Neil, Tom Sosnoff, and Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
You can learn more about Tom and TFNN by visiting www.TFNN.com, where you can also listen to “The Tom O’Brien Show” live or archived 24 hours per day. You can also get a free trial subscription to his weekly gold letter, “The Gold Report”, or his daily market letter, “Market Insights”.
Siddharth RajeevSiddharth Rajeev, B.Tech (Electronics Engineering), MBA (Finance), CFA Vice-President – Head of Research
At Fundamental Research Corp, Sid heads the research department which covers over 150 small and micro cap companies and 15 exempt market/private issues from a broad array of industries including Energy, Mining, Real Estate and Technology. He also manages the FRC list of Top Picks, which are the stocks under coverage which he has the highest conviction level about. These picks have historically helped the firm finish strong in various third party analyst performance rankings.
Sid holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics Engineering from Cochin University of Science & Technology, and an MBA (Finance) from The University of British Columbia. He is a CFA Charterholder, and has completed studies in exploration and prospecting at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Sid is sought by the media for commentary on the valuation of small cap stocks and industries he covers. He is also co-author of two online courses including the very successful “Evaluation of Junior Mining Companies for Investment Purposes” which has evolved into classroom courses, seminars, and is in demand at investment conferences across North America.
Lawrence RoulstonLawrence Roulston, editor of Resource Opportunities, is a geologist with engineering and business training, and more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the resource industry as a consultant and independent mining analyst.
He is a renowned guest speaker at industry conferences and events, and can be heard on popular business television and radio programs. Mr. Roulston’s years of hands-on experience and extensive personal contacts in the industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for Resource Opportunities.
Keith SchaeferKeith Schaefer is Editor and Publisher of the Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin. The Bulletin subscription service finds, researches, and profiles growing oil and gas companies that Mr. Schaefer buys himself, so Bulletin subscribers know he has his own money on the line.
Mr. Schaefer identifies oil and gas companies that have high growth rates, or have the potential for that – this usually means they have a large undeveloped land position in an area where either production costs are very low or production rates can be very high. They are covered by several research analysts, so there is research support and institutional money flow behind them.
There is tremendous potential to profit in oil and gas companies for informed investors. Technology has transformed exploration in both oil and natural gas in three short years. New plays in old locations are opening up huge profits for producers and their shareholders. And high-impact international plays are starting to benefit from these new technologies as well.
The Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin subscriber portfolio generated approximately 114% gains in 2009 and 74.5% in 2010.
For more information about the Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin: www.oilandgas-investments.com.
Jay Taylor
Mr. Taylor is editor of J Taylor’s Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks newsletter. A native of Ohio, he has resided in New York since 1973 when he began working there for Barclays Bank International. His interest in the role gold has played in U.S. monetary history led him to research gold and into analyzing and investing in junior gold shares.
In 1981 he began publishing North American Gold Mining Stocks, which preceded his current newsletter. His continuing interest in gold mining prompted him to study geology at Hunter College in New York City, supplementing his MBA in Finance & Investments from Baruch College, NYC. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor worked as a commercial, then as an investment banker. Most recently, he worked in the mining and metals group of ING Barings in New York. Prior to that he was involved in the first gold loan made in modern times in the U.S. to Amax Minerals, a 250,000 oz. loan facility led by Citicorp.
In 1997 he resigned from ING Barings to devote himself full time to researching mining & technology stocks, writing his newsletter and assisting companies in raising venture capital. In March of 2009, Jay began hosting the popular web radio show titled Turning Hard Times into Good Times, which features high profile guests who discuss leading economic issues of our day. The show also discusses investment opportunities primarily in the precious metals mining sector. Jay’s show is now by far the most popular show on the Voice America Business network with just under 100,000 monthly listeners.
John ThomasJohn Thomas graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics in 1974. He moved to Tokyo, Japan to join Dai Nana Securities as a research analyst of Japanese companies, becoming fluent in Japanese.
In 1976 he was appointed the Tokyo correspondent for The Economist magazine and the Financial Times. For the next seven years he published thousands of articles about the economies, companies, and leaders of every country in Asia. He was one of the first American correspondents to cover China during the Cultural Revolution. He reported on the American attempt to climb Mount Everest and guerilla wars throughout Southeast Asia. The major figures he interviewed included China’s Premier Deng Xiaoping, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, the UK’s Margaret Thatcher, the PLO’s Yassir Arafat, and of course President Ronald Reagan.
In 1989 John Thomas was appointed a director of the Swiss Bank Corp responsible for its then vast portfolio of Japanese equity derivatives. A year later he left to set up the first ever dedicated international hedge fund, which became a top performer in the industry.
Seeing the incredible inefficiencies and severe mispricing offered by the popping of multiple bubbles during the Great Crash of 2008, and missing the adrenaline of the marketplace, he returned to active hedge fund management.
His career has taken him up to 20,000 feet on Mount Everest, to the edge of space at 90,000 feet in the Cockpit of a MIG-25, and to the depths of a sunken Japanese fleet in the Truk Lagoon. Why they call him “mad” he will never understand.
James WestJames West is publisher and editor of The Midas Letter, an independent capital markets entrepreneur and investor. He has spent more than 20 years working as a corporate finance advisor, corporate development officer, investor relations officer, media relations and business development officer for companies involved in mining, oil and gas, alternative fuels, healthcare, Internet technology, transportation, manufacturing and housing construction.