INVITED
Mary Anne and Pamela Aden are two of the most influential and well known investment analysts, writers and lecturers in the world. They are the co-editors and publishers of The Aden Forecast, a monthly investment newsletter, which specializes in the U.S. stock market, mutual funds, U.S. interest rates and bonds, the international stock and bond markets, as well as the foreign exchange and precious metals markets.
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.
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.
Ian Gordon entered the financial services industry as a broker in 1983. It didn’t take long for the history graduate to become fascinated by the apparent cyclical nature of events that occurred in both the economic and financial sectors. In particular, Ian focused on the Kondratieff cycle which demonstrated that economic events repeated in a surprisingly regular sequence every 60 years or so.
Rick Rule is the founder of Global Resource Investments, Ltd. He began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. He is a leading American retail broker, specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture.
Jay Taylor is editor of J Taylor's Gold & Technology Stocks newsletter. 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.
Jay 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.