 Speakers
The speakers we have assembled for the 2012 New Orleans Investment Conference continues our long tradition of assembling the best and the brightest from the worlds of finance, economics and politics.
True to the principles of our founder, Jim Blanchard, our chosen speakers share a common belief in the power of free markets, sound money and personal freedom. They are people who have reached the pinnacles of their professions and on whom institutional and private investors willingly lavish millions of dollars in consulting and advisory fees.
And the New Orleans Investment Conference gives you unprecedented access to each and every one of them. For the price of what just one of our speakers would charge for a one-on-one consultation, you can get up close and personal with over 50 of the most successful investors on the planet.
Our 2012 Speaker Faculty
Mary Anne Aden
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, now in its 30th year, famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals markets, as well as Forex, the U.S. and global stock market and interest rates/bonds. They have been featured in publications such as Business Week, Barron's, Smart Money and Forbes. The Aden Forecast was named Letter of the Year in 2010 by MarketWatch.
Pamela Aden
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, now in its 30th year, famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals markets, as well as Forex, the U.S. and global stock market and interest rates/bonds. They have been featured in publications such as Business Week, Barron's, Smart Money and Forbes. The Aden Forecast was named Letter of the Year in 2010 by MarketWatch.
Gary Alexander
Gary Alexander is senior writer for Navellier & Associates. For the previous 20 years, he was Senior Executive Editor at InvestorPlace Media (Phillips Publishing). During the 1980s, he edited Gold Newsletter and Wealth magazine for Jim Blanchard. This is Mr. Alexander's 29th consecutive appearance at the New Orleans Conference.
Gene Arensberg
A land developer, professional numismatist, self-taught bullion trader/investor since 1980 and owner/editor of the very popular Got Gold Report, Gene Arensberg analyzes technical and fundamental developments in the precious metals markets for fund and portfolio managers, high net worth individuals and precious metal bullion traders. Gene’s biweekly in-depth market reports, insights and trading ideas are available for subscribers and he shares comments often on www.GotGoldReport.com.
Brent Cook
Brent Cook, a renowned exploration analyst and geologist, is the author of Exploration Insights, a mining and exploration investment letter (www.explorationinsights.com). He has over thirty years of experience providing economic and geologic evaluations to major mining companies, resource funds and investors. He has worked in over 60 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, British-born writer and money manager, has been a pioneer in global investing, with two books on the subject. A London School of Economics graduate, he is president of his boutique money management firm, specializing in global and resource equities. His new book, Investing in Resources, has been recently published by Wiley..
Marc Faber
Originally from Zurich, Marc Faber has lived in Hong Kong since 1973. A doctoral graduate at the age of 24, Dr. Faber worked for White Weld & Company from 1970 to 1978. From 1978 to 1990, he was the managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In 1990, he set up his own business; Marc Faber Limited, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. Marc Faber is the Managing Director of Marc Faber Limited and the Publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," his widely read newsletter which
highlights unusual investment opportunities. Dr. Faber is the author of
several books, including "Tomorrow's Gold - Asia's Age of Discovery," which was on Amazon's best-seller list for several weeks. A book about Dr. Faber,
"Riding the Millennial Storm," by Nury Vittachi, was published in 1998. A
regular speaker at various investment seminars, Dr. Faber is known for his
"contrarian" investment approach. He is also associated with a variety of
funds.
Dennis Gartman
Mr. Gartman has been directly involved in the capital markets since August of 1974, after his graduate work at the North Carolina State University. He was an economist for Cotton, Inc. in the early 1970s, analyzing cotton supply/demand in the U.S. textile industry. From there he went to NCNB National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments. In the late ’70s, Mr. Gartman became the Chief Financial Futures analyst for A. G. Becker & Company in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Gartman was an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade until 1984, trading in Treasury bond, Treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In 1984, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Sovran Bank, and in 1987 Mr. Gartman began The Gartman Letter on a full time basis. He continues to do so today.
Clients of The Gartman Letter, L.C. include many of the leading banks, broking firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy trading companies and grain trading companies. Mr. Gartman has lectured on capital market creation to central banks and finance ministries around the world, and has taught classes for the Federal Reserve Bank’s School for Bank Examiners on derivatives. Mr. Gartman served a two-year term as an outside Director of the Kansas City Board of Trade from 2006-2008. He has been a member of the Suffolk Industrial Development Authority since 1998, and now serves on the Investment Committee of the North Caroline State University. Mr. Gartman appears often on CNBC, BNN and Bloomberg television, discussing commodities and the capital markets, and speaks before various associations and trade groups around the world.
Scott Gibson
Scott is the Managing Director of Kitco Gibson Capital Corp., a private investment firm focused on investing in micro- and small-cap exploration companies that develop precious metal and rare earth metal properties. The company specializes in studying markets and investing in companies with the objective of earning significant returns on investments.
“Scott discusses current mining related topics with industry experts on Kitco.com's Beneath the Surface at www.kitco.com/bts on a weekly basis.”
Lindsay Hall
Lindsay Hall has been an active currency trader for over 10 years. She has logged hundreds of hours of live television market commentary, and is a prolific author of DVD/booklet tutorials, newsletters and blogs.
Having taught foreign currency trading skills to audiences numbering up to 4,000, Lindsay uses her knowledge and experience to uncover potentially powerful market opportunities from the ongoing break-up of the 27-nation Euro currency bloc.
Steven Hochberg
Steven Hochberg is the co-editor of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a monthly financial newsletter, as well as editor of The Short Term Update, a three times a week online market forecasting service. Mr. Hochberg is a sought after speaker and has been widely quoted in various media outlets such as USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron’s, Reuters and Bloomberg and has been interviewed numerous times for his market views by CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg Television. Mr. Hochberg was the featured interview for the November 2001 issue of Stocks and Commodities magazine and the October 2002 issue of Chartpoint magazine.
Frank Holmes
Frank Holmes is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., a boutique registered investment adviser specializing in natural resources, infrastructure and emerging markets.
His specialized international capital markets knowledge gives him a unique expertise in resource-based industries and money management. He is a regular keynote speaker at national and international investment conferences. He is also a much-sought-after commentator on the financial television networks CNBC and Bloomberg and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron's The Financial Times and other publications. He is the co-author of “The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing.”
John Kaiser
John 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.
Charles Krauthammer
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and the man the Financial Times calls “the most influential commentator in America,” Mr. Krauthammer defines the term “Renaissance man.” A former practicing psychiatrist, and currently a columnist for The Washington Post, his views have influenced American policy for over three decades.
Mr. Krauthammer’s towering intellect and powerful opinions have earned him the respect of both the left and the right. At this moment, his reasoned arguments are serving as one of the most effective weapons against Washington’s socialization of our society.
Mr. Krauthammer began writing a weekly column for The Washington Post in January 1985, and won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1987. He was also the winner of the 1984 National Magazine Award for essays.
Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor of The Washington Post, calls Mr. Krauthammer’s column “independent and hard to peg politically. It’s a very tough column. There’s no ‘trendy’ in it. You never know what is going to happen next.”
A column, notes Mr. Krauthammer, is not just political philosophy. “Much of it has to do with common sense. One of my many missions is putting up a first-line defense against the various enthusiasms of the age — everything from the nuclear freeze to identity politics to the ‘recovered memory’ movement — which tend to roll over the culture at regular intervals.”
Mr. Krauthammer was born in New York City and raised in Montreal. He was educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. in 1975). He practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to the New Republic. During the presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined the New Republic as a writer and editor in 1980. He also writes essays for Time and the Weekly Standard. In 1997, the Washingtonian magazine named him among the top 50 most influential journalists in the national press corps.
Mr. Krauthammer lives in suburban Washington with his wife Robyn, an artist, and their son.
Stephen Leeb
Dr. Stephen Leeb is a recognized authority on the stock market, macroeconomic trends and commodities, especially oil and precious metals. He is founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of the Leeb Group, which publishes an extensive line of financial newsletters and e-letters reaching more than 200,000 readers. The publications, which have received multiple awards for editorial excellence, include The Complete Investor, Leeb's Income Performance Letter, Leeb’s Cash Cow, Leeb's Real World Investing, Leeb's Aggressive Trader, and Leeb’s Million Dollar Portfolio.
Further, as chairman and chief investment officer of a New-York-based registered investment advisor, Dr. Leeb has been managing separate accounts and mutual funds since 1999.
Dr. Leeb is a prolific author of books that present his macro-perspectives on global economic trends along with advice to investors. His books have been notable for predicting the secular bull market that began in the 1980s (Getting in on the Ground Floor, Putnam, 1986); the crash in tech stocks and the rise of real assets including oil and gold (Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom, McGraw-Hill, 1999); and the surge in oil prices (The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis, Warner Books, 2004). Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (Business Plus, 2009) predicted a permanent peak in global commodity production. Dr. Leeb’s eighth and latest book, Red Alert (Hachette) is being published in 2011.
Dr. Leeb is a frequent guest on national television and radio financial shows, including those broadcast on CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and has spoken at numerous investment conferences. In 2010 he gave the keynote address at an energy conference sponsored by J.P. Morgan. As an expert on energy, materials, and their interrelationships, Dr. Leeb consulted for the Congressional Research Service in Spring 2011.
Dr. Leeb earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. In the following three years he obtained both a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois.
Brien Lundin
With a career spanning three decades in the investment markets, Brien Lundin serves as president and CEO of Jefferson Financial, Inc., a highly regarded producer of investment-oriented events and publisher of investment newsletters and special reports. Under the Jefferson Financial umbrella, Mr. Lundin serves as publisher and editor of Gold Newsletter, the publication that has been the cornerstone of precious metals advisories since 1971, and as the host of the annual New Orleans Investment Conference, the oldest and most respected investment event of its kind.
As editor of Gold Newsletter, Mr. Lundin covers not only resource stocks, but also the entire world of investing, from small-caps of every type to macroeconomics and geopolitical issues that ultimately affect every investor. As host of the New Orleans Investment Conference, Mr. Lundin has annually brought the giants of investing, economics and geopolitics together in intimate presentations with many of today’s most sophisticated private investors. In all of these endeavors, Mr. Lundin has striven to burnish the brilliant legacy of the late James U. Blanchard III, his great friend and the founder of both Gold Newsletter and the New Orleans Investment Conference.
In addition to his responsibilities with Jefferson Financial, Mr. Lundin is an active investor and speculator in the mining and technology sectors. He is a co-founder, and the Chairman, of Natcore Technology, Inc. (NXT.V), which controls a revolutionary new film-growth technology that promises to transform the solar energy, semiconductor and optoelectronic industries.
Ian Mc Avity
Ian McAvity, editor of Deliberations on World Markets since 1972, is a globally recognized technical analyst who covers the major world stock markets, currencies and gold. He has been an Advisor and Director of Central Fund of Canada Ltd., (CEF), the NYSE/Arca-listed gold and silver bullion fund since 1983, a trustee of NYSE/Arca-listed Central Gold-Trust (GTU) since its launch in 2003, and President/CEO of Duncan Park Holdings Corp (DCNPF) since 2008. At the conference, he will graphically update his big-picture expectations for stocks, gold and the dollar.
Robert Meier
Robert Meier has been a conference speaker since 1976, and a Gold Newsletter contributing editor since 1979. The Rutsen Meier Belmont (RMB) Group specializes in "Big Move" option strategies in precious metals, interest rates, stock indexes, agricultural commodities and foreign currencies (FX). The RMB Group has served New Orleans Conference attendees since 1984. Their client advisory services, "Options Edge" and “Currency Trader” are highly respected. Their individual managed account division offers a wide selection of accounts – from single markets, such as gold to those trading dozens of world class commodities.
Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy, chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), has an extensive commodities and futures background with some of the world’s most well-known Wall Street firms. However, those firms probably wish they’d never heard of him. That’s because Mr. Murphy has since compiled a vast body of evidence implicating some of them in what he says is a scheme to manipulate the price of gold. He is a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and was a starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots in 1968.
Chris Powell
Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, where he has worked for more than 40 years. His political columns are published in a dozen newspapers in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He and LeMetropoleCafe.com proprietor Bill Murphy founded the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee in 1999 to expose manipulation of the gold market.
Robert Prechter Jr.
Robert Prechter’s 1978 book Elliott Wave Principle forecast a 1920s-style stock market boom. His 2002 title, Conquer the Crash, predicted the current debt crisis. His firm, Elliott Wave International, forecasts stocks, commodities and currencies from intraday to long term. In 1999, Prechter outlined a new approach to social science in Socionomics—the Science of History and Social Prediction. He has made presentations on socionomic theory to Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity, MIT, the London School of Economics, Georgia Tech, SUNY and academic conferences. Read more at www.robertprechter.com.
Lawrence Roulston
Lawrence Roulston, editor of Resource Opportunities, is a geologist with engineering and business training, and more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the resource industry as a mining company analyst and executive. He is renowned as a guest speaker at industry conferences and events, and can be heard on popular business radio and television 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. He also publishes GreenTech Opportunities, an investment newsletter focused on innovations in the alternative energy sector. Lawrence recently launched the Roulston Resource Opportunities Fund, a Cayman domiciled (tax-exempt) entity offering foreign investors the potential for highly leveraged gains in the gold and mineral sector.
Rick Rule
Rick Rule has been active in natural resource investing for thirty five years. He is a well-recognized expert in mining, energy, water, forest products, infrastructure and agriculture. A popular public speaker, Mr. Rule is a featured presenter at investment and industry forums and conferences around the world.
He founded Global Resource Investments, which provides investment advice and brokerage services to high net worth individuals, institutional investors and corporate entities worldwide.
Mr. Rule is particularly active in private placement markets, having originated and participated in hundreds of debt and equity transactions with private, pre-public and public companies. As general partner in the Exploration Capital Partner series of private placement partnerships, Mr. Rule has an exemplary track record of performance.
Sprott Inc. is a public company, focused on investment management in the natural resources sector. The company manages or administers in excess of C$8 billion in resource and commodity assets, and has an admirable performance record.
Sprott Inc. is a leading independent asset manager dedicated to achieving superior returns for its clients over the long term. The company currently operates through four business units: Sprott Asset Management L.P, Sprott Private Wealth L.P., and Sprott Consulting L.P. and Sprott US Holdings Inc.
Keith Schaefer
Keith Schaefer writes on energy and junior energy stocks in a simple, easy-to-read manner. In his newsletter, the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin, he finds the fastest growing producers and energy service companies for his subscribers. The new shale discovery plays are steadily creating exciting new opportunities for investors and his readers.
Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, a full-service registered broker/dealer, member FINRA and SIPC, which specializes in foreign securities. He is recognized for his knowledge of the foreign securities markets as well as the currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Barron’s, BusinessWeek, Time and Fortune. His broadcast credits include regular guest appearances on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, as well as hosting a daily radio program, The Peter Schiff Show. As an author, he has written three bestselling books, including his latest: “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse” and “How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes.”
Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of over 25 books. Currently he holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham University. In 2004-05, he taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School and Columbia University. Since 1980, Skousen has been editor in chief of Forecasts& Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter (www.markskousen.com). He is editor of his own weekly e-letter, www.worldlyphilosophers.com. He is a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, chairman of Investment U, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. He is the producer of FreedomFest, the world’s largest gathering of libertarians in Las Vegas every July (www.freedomfest.com). He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Christian Science Monitor, and is a regular contributor to CNBC's Kudlow & Co. His bestsellers include The Making of Modern Economics, Investing in One Lesson, and EconoPower. In 2006, he compiled and edited The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (Regnery). In honor of his work in economics, finance and management, Grantham University renamed its business school, "The Mark Skousen School of Business."
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