Dudley Baker
Dudley 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.
Jeff Berwick
A 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 Brodrick
When 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.
Steve Contursi
Steve Contursi has been an active rare coin wholesaler for the past 35 years. A collector since the age of seven when he used money from his paperboy job to fill holes in coin folders, Contursi built his childhood pastime into one of America’s most respected and renowned dealerships. A professional numismatist since 1975, he has bought and sold over a $1 billion worth of United States rare coins, and helps both collectors and other dealers acquire the finest quality, historically significant coins.
In January 2005, he purchased for a record price of almost $3 million, the first gold coin struck in the United States the unique 1787 Brasher Doubloon with designer Ephraim Brasher’s initials, “EB,” punched on the eagle’s breast. In November 2005, he paid a record $8.5 million for the legendary King of Siam proof set originally presented as a diplomatic gift on behalf of President Andrew Jackson to the King of Siam (now Thailand) in 1836. He made worldwide news in May 2010 by selling the unique 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar believe by many experts to be the first silver dollar ever struck by the U.S. Mint. He sold the coin for a world’s record $7.85 million, the highest price ever paid for a single rare coin. Steve is also an annual consultant to the oldest pricing book in publications, The Guide Book to U.S. Coins, “Red Book”.
David Coffin
David has been active in prospecting, resource calculation, and feasibility studies for resource companies for 29 years. He attended the Haileybury School of Mines, authored numerous qualifying reports for resource companies, and managed and designed field programs for over 15 years.
His experience is so vast that scores of companies try and lure him to look at their projects. Why? Because they know if their project has Dave’s seal of approval, a lot of serious market players and other analysts will take notice.
David was one of the first (along with Eric) to call the current cycle as the secular trend others have only recently recognized. They made that call back in 2001. David is a regular speaker at resource and commodity investment shows in North America and Europe, and has been interviewed numerous times on radio and TV and in third party news articles for his opinions on the gold sector and resource stocks in general.
Eric Coffin
Eric has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures.
Eric has been interviewed on CBC Television’s Business News and national and local radio in Canada and the US for his opinions on resource trends and is a frequent contributor to several third party publications and a number of resource, gold, metals and market related Internet sites.
He regularly speaks at a number of North American gold and resource conferences. He was one of the first analysts (along with David) to point out the disastrous effects of gold hedging and gold loan capital financing (1997) and to predict the start of the current secular bull market in commodities based on the movement of the US Dollar (2001) and the acceleration of growth in Asia and India.
Brent Cook
Brent 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 Day
Adrian 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.
John Doody
John Doody, with degrees in Economics and Finance from Columbia and Boston Universities, left his professorship at Bentley University outside of Boston in 1994 to start his newsletter, Gold Stock Analyst. John believes that while all miners’ output is exactly the same, gold or silver, the stock market is inefficient and does not correctly value all the stocks, all the time. Covering 70 producing or near production miners, and using unique valuation metrics to select the best values, the results from GSA’s Top 10 Stocks portfolio have been spectacular: Up 130% in 2009 and up 1,027% in the past decade.
Mickey Fulp
The 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 Gordon
The son of a British military officer, Ian followed in his Father’s footsteps and graduated from The Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He served as a Platoon Commander in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Four years later in 1967 Ian immigrated to Canada where he entered the History Department at the University of Manitoba—a decision that has had a profound impact on his career to this day. It was during this period that he began to study the historical trends that ultimately provided the foundation for his Long Wave theory.
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 need to access further institutional investment, vital to supporting Ian’s financings prompted him to move his team to Bolder Investment Partners in late 2005. The move to Bolder proved very successful for Ian and his team, accelerating the momentum that had been gained at Canaccord previously. Ian served as a Vice President of Bolder for three years.
The Long Wave Theory, in addition to a keen sense of what constitutes a winning deal, has enabled Ian and his team to enjoy meteoric growth over the last decade. This success has enabled Ian to chart the course for the next leg of his journey.
The same Long Wave principles that have guided Ian for the last decade are just as relevant today as they were a decade ago. These principles very accurately predicted the collapse of the financial markets—a prediction that factored heavily into Ian’s investment strategies over the last decade. His focus now is the next decade. Ian is focusing his attention on using the same Long Wave principles to help define next steps for both institutional and retail investors.
The Long Wave Group, a company dedicated to this pursuit has been formed, and Ian, the Long Wave Analyst himself, is assuming the reins as Chairman. Ian’s experience and expertise, in addition to his infectious passion and enthusiasm, will serve as a guiding beacon for employees and clients alike.
Frank Holmes
Frank Holmes is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., which manages a diversified family of mutual funds and hedge funds specializing in natural resources, emerging markets and infrastructure.
The company’s funds have earned more than two dozen Lipper Fund Awards and certificates since 2000. The World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX) was Lipper’s top-performing gold fund in 2009, the second time in four years for that achievement.
Mr. Holmes was 2006 mining fund manager of the year for Mining Journal, a leading publication for the global resources industry, and he is co-author of “The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing.”
He is also an advisor to the International Crisis Group, which works to resolve global conflict, and the William J. Clinton Foundation on sustainable development in nations with resource-based economies.
Mr. Holmes is a much-sought-after conference speaker and a regular commentator on financial television. He has been profiled by Fortune, Barron’s, The Financial Times and other publications.
John Kaiser
John Kaiser is an independent analyst who has covered the junior resource sector since 1983. After a decade working as a research director in Vancouver, he left the brokerage industry in 1994 to launch the Kaiser Bottom-Fishing Report which applied the “bottom-fishing strategy” to Canadian listed companies.
In 2002 he turned the report into Kaiser Bottom-Fish Online and created the “rational speculation model” as a tool to evaluate the speculative value of exploration plays. Kaiser Bottom-Fish Online publishes his recommendations, provides information on over 1500 Canadian listed junior mining and exploration companies, and tracks trends within the junior sector and their relationship to macro trends.
John Kaiser is also one of the few independent analysts with an in-depth knowledge of diamond exploration.
He often speaks at conferences and private venues in North American and Europe, and contributes to a range of online and print publications.
Jim Letourneau
Jim 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 Lifton
Jack 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 McAvity
Ian 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 McEwen
Rob has been associated with the mining industry for 29 years. His career began in the investment industry, 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 $10 billion.
Rob is currently the Chairman & CEO and largest shareholder of US Gold, Minera Andes and of Lexam Explorations. Exploring for gold, silver, copper, and oil & gas in Canada, USA, Mexico and Argentina.
Some of the Awards Rob has received: In 2000, Business Week named Goldcorp as one of 50 most innovative companies on the web worldwide. In 2002, Ernst & Young’s Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year Award—Energy; in 2003, Northern Miners’ Mining Man of the Year; 2004, Canada Museum Association. Outstanding Achievement Award “Philanthropy”; 2005: York University, Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree; 2006: Canadian Business Magazine: Most Innovative CEO; 2007: Order of Canada.
Rob and his wife Cheryl are strong supporters of education, in particular leadership development and of health care. In 2006, they opened the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at University Health Network in Toronto (Canada’s largest research hospital complex). Over the past 8 years, they have donated in excess of $50 million.
Jon Nadler
Jon 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’Brien
Tom 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”.
John O’Connell
John O’Connell is Managing Director of Financial Integration, an educational consulting company developing client and employee training programs for international banks and trading companies. John brings practical experience as a Floor Trader, a Registered Supervisory Analyst, and a Senior Sales Executive to his classroom with over 24 years of experience on Wall Street. John was previously Executive Director of Global Financial Product Training Programs at Morgan Stanley. John designed and implemented financial product training from client and senior trader programs to continuing educational development including, open enrollment, e-learning, CFA prep and Analyst, Associate and lateral Hire programs. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, John was Director of Research and International Client Education for Refco, a major derivatives trade house, and traded on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. John is a CFA and holds a Masters Degree from the Stern School of Business at NYU. John has created educational programs for a wide range of commercial and financial enterprises including The World Bank, the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). John has spoken at NYMEX seminars and been published in Euromoney and Futures and Options magazines.
Sid Rajeev
Sid joined Fundamental Research Corp. as head of research in April 2006. At FRC, he oversees the research department, and also covers a broad array of companies, primarily in the Energy, Mining, and Technology sectors. Prior to FRC, he has had a mix of engineering and finance experience including corporate finance experience at a leading Investment Bank in Kuwait. Sid is ranked a 4 star analyst in the energy sector by Deutsche Asset Management, a division of Deutsche Bank. His picks in the energy and mining sector in 2009, were determined to outperform their respective benchmarks after transaction costs.
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 also a Level 3 candidate in the CFA program, 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, and is a speaker at various investment conferences.
Lawrence Roulston
Lawrence 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.
Rick Rule
Rick Rule owns and operates Global Resource Investments (FINRA, SIPC) a US based broker dealer focusing on natural resources and basic industries investing world wide. He also operates very highly regarded managed pool and segregated account investment operations in the natural resource industries. In these capacities Mr. Rule provides advisory, analytical, management and transactional services to individual, institutional and corporate natural resource investors worldwide. Mr. Rule’s particular focus is privately structured debt and equity transactions, he has originated, and\or participated in several hundred such transactions over the last three decades.
Keith Schaefer
Keith Schaefer is Editor and Publisher of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin, at www.oilandgas-investments.com. With a degree in journalism, he tells his readers where the new discoveries are, who has the big land positions, and how investors might benefit from all this in a simple and easy to read manner. His subscription service follows his own real portfolio, so subscribers know his money is on the line with all his stock selections.
Brian Tang
Prior to founding Fundamental Research Corp., Brian was an analyst in the corporate banking group of one of the world’s largest international banks where he performed fundamental analysis on Financial Post 500 companies (the Canadian equivalent of the Fortune 500). Prior to this, he worked at a financial advisory firm where he analyzed and published research on Canadian equity mutual funds.
Brian holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Finance with a minor in Economics) from Simon Fraser University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Brian is a member of the CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research) and CFA Vancouver (formerly the Vancouver Society of Financial Analysts).
Vincent Weber
Vincent graduated from the University of Waterloo in the interdisciplinary Honours Science and Business program. This has equipped Vincent with a unique blend of knowledge in technology, science and business, as well as information technology. His educational experience also built the backbone for knowledge in geological research including regional deposit and structure mapping, sample interpretation and technical report writing.
Vincent has given presentations at various investment conferences related to his areas of focus – mineral projects and small cap companies. He has conducted due diligence site visits on mining projects around the world, from Peru to right at home in Canada.
