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 Faculty
The faculty we have assembled for the 2008 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 2008 Speaker Faculty
Includes The Following
Larry H. Abraham
Larry H. Abraham, Chairman, is the founder of PanAmerica Capital Group, Inc. and long-time author and Editor of the Insider Report, an international geopolitical investment newsletter with over 10,00 private subscribers, worldwide. Mr. Abraham is an international best selling author and a sought -after speaker on political, economic, and financial topics. He attended Gonzaga University and the University of Puget Sound. Mr. Abraham has been active in management of all types of financial products: precious metals, currencies, stocks, venture capital and investment banking for over thirty years. After living in South America for seven years, he now resides in the Seattle area of Washington State while serving on the boards and major consultancies in North America, South America, and China.
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 26th year famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals and Foreign Exchange Markets as well as the U.S. stock market, U.S. interest rates, bonds, and THE international markets.
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 famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals and Foreign Exchange Markets as well as the U.S. stock market, U.S. interest rates, bonds, and THE international markets.
Gary Alexander
Gary Alexander is senior executive editor for investment newsletters at Phillips Publishing, Inc. Currently, he edits John Dessauer's Investor's World and Louis Navellier's Global Growth Letter. Before joining PPI in 1989, he edited Gold Newsletter and Wealth magazine for Jim Blanchard. This is Mr. Alexander's 25th consecutive appearance at the New Orleans Conference.
Bill Bonner
Bill Bonner is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, one of the world's most successful consumer newsletter publishing company. He is also the creator of the Daily Reckoning e-letter, with over 550,000 readers worldwide, and the co-author, with Addison Wiggin, of an international business best seller, "Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis." Since its inception in 1979, Agora has grown to include dozens of newsletters and other products published from offices in Baltimore, Florida, France, London, Germany, Ireland, Spain, South Africa and Australia.
Darrell Brookstein
Nanotechnology.com - The Nanotech Company, LLC
The author of Nanotech Fortunes, editor of The Best of the Nanoweek and of The Small Technology Prospector, A 32 year financial executive, Darrell has operated Broker/Dealers, Investment Advisors, Commodity Trading Advisors, as well as private equity and hedge funds. The Nanotech Company, LLC is building a leading merchant banking firm and pre-public, private placement fund for accredited investors in small & advanced technologies. Mr. Brookstein received his BA from Duke University. Visit www.nanotechnology.com.
Chuck Butler
Chuck Butler is president of EverBank World Markets and the author of the Daily Pfennig newsletter, which is delivered daily via email to market-watcher globally helping traders stay on top of the economic, currency and market happenings around the world.
Mr. Butler has worked in foreign markets and investment for the last quarter century and oversees the trading desk and operations for over 12,000 individual and corporate clients.
Doug Casey
Doug Casey is a world-renowned investor and author, whose book Crisis Investing was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for 29 consecutive weeks.
He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post. Mr. Casey is a graduate of Georgetown University. His firm, Casey Research, LLC, publishes a variety of publications and web sites with a combined weekly audience in excess of 200,000 individuals, largely high net worth investors with an interest in resource-development and international real estate. A new publication, the Casey Energy Speculator, launched in June, 2005. Mr. Casey has lived in seven countries and visited over 150, most of them several times. His main sport is polo, but he has been also active in skydiving, martial arts, scuba, auto racing, and competitive shooting in the past.
David Coffin
David, the “geology side” of HRA, 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 also 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 Cambridge House, the PDAC, the New Orleans Gold Show and other American conferences, 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. David logs literally hundreds of thousands of miles every year, visiting exploration sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers.
Brent Cook
Brent Cook is a renowned Exploration Analyst and Geologist. He has over twenty-five years of experience focusing on the economic evaluation of mineral exploration, development and mining properties in over 50 countries, encompassing virtually all geologic environments. He was the principal Mining and Exploration Analyst with Global Resource Investments through 2003, where he provided evaluation and advice on mining related equities to retail brokers. He is now acting as an independent mining and exploration analysts to North American and European funds and is a regular contributor to Paul van Eeden’s investment newsletter.
Adrian Day
Adrian Day is a British-born writer and money manager who has made a name for himself searching out unusual opportunities. Mr. Day was a pioneer promoting the benefits of global investing, with two books on the subject. A graduate of the London School of Economics; he is the president of his own money management firm, Adrian Day Asset Management, where he specializes in global diversification and gold equities for individual and institutional clients. Mr. Day is also editor of a premium fax/e-mail service, Adrian Day's Global Analyst.
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, fund manager and broker/dealer. Marc Faber, Managing Director of Marc Faber Limited and the Publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report". His widely read newsletter, "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," 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
Dennis Gartman, the editor and publisher of the Gartman Letter, has been in the markets since 1974. Born in Akron, Ohio, Gartman received his BA from the University of Akron and MA from North Carolina State University. After finishing his graduate work in the mid 1970s, he worked as an economist for Cotton, Inc. analyzing cotton supply and demand in the US textile industry. From there he went to NCNB where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments.
In 1977, Mr. Gartman became the Chief Financial Futures Analyst for A.G. Becker and Company in Chicago, where he also served as an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading in treasury bond, treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In 1985, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Virginia National Bank, and in 1987 began producing The Gartman Letter on a full-time basis. He continues to do so to this day."
Alexander Green
Oxford Club Investment Director Alexander Green is a Wall Street veteran with more than 16 years of experience as a research analyst, investment advisor and professional portfolio manager. Mr. Green is also considered one of the most talented financial writers in the business. He’s been featured on The O’Reilly Factor, profiled by Forbes and Marketwatch.com, and has written for Louis Rukeyser and several other leading financial publications. He currently writes and directs The Oxford Club Communiqué, the Oxford Insight e-letter, and three elite trading services: The Momentum Alert, The Insider Alert and The International Trader Alert. Alex is also a top-rated speaker at financial conferences throughout the world.
Steven Hochberg
Steven Hochberg is a close associate of Robert Prechter and chief market analyst for Prechter's company Elliott Wave International in Gainesville, Georgia. The Elliott Wave Principle is one of the world's most recognized technical tools for forecasting market behavior, and Elliott Wave International is the world's largest provider of Elliott Wave analysis.
Mr. Hochberg is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the Wave Principle and its application to market forecasting. He began his career with Merrill Lynch & Co. and joined Elliott Wave International in 1994, where he quickly established a stellar reputation providing analysis to large institutional traders and hedge funds. Mr. Hochberg is a sought after speaker and has been widely quoted in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Barron's and Bloomberg news. He has also been interviewed numerous times for his market views by CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television and Canada's ROB TV. 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. The company is a registered investment adviser that manages approximately $4.8 billion in 13 no-load mutual funds and for other advisory clients.
Mr. Holmes, a Toronto native, bought a controlling interest in U.S. Global Investors in 1989 after an accomplished career in Canada’s capital markets.
The company’s Global Resources Fund (PSPFX) is the 2005 and 2006 Lipper Fund Award winner in the natural resources category. U.S. Global’s World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX) and China Region Opportunity Fund (USCOX) also won Lipper recognition in their categories in 2006.
The Global Resources Fund is also Morningstar’s top performer among all domestic stock funds in the five-year period ending December 31, 2006. Also, the World Precious Minerals Fund is Morningstar’s top performer among all international stock funds for the five-year period ending December 31, 2006.
Mr. Holmes is a sought-after speaker at national and international investment conferences. He is also a regular commentator on the financial television networks CNBC and Bloomberg, and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron’s, The Financial Times and other publications.
Brien Lundin
Brien Lundin serves as president of Jefferson Financial and editor of Gold Newsletter. Mr. Lundin draws on 20 years of experience in investment analysis and publishing to deliver profitable advice to his readers and clients. In each edition 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.
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., the Amex-listed gold and silver bullion fund since 1983, and a trustee of Amex-listed Central Gold-Trust since its launch in 2003. At the conference, he will graphically update his big-picture expectations for stocks, gold and the dollar.
Greg McCoach
Greg McCoach is an entrepreneur, who has successfully started and run several businesses the past 22 years. For the last 7 of these years he has been involved with the precious metals industry as a bullion dealer, investor, and newsletter writer. Mr. McCoach's years of business experience and extensive personal contacts in the mining industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for The Mining Speculator since its inception in 2001. He also spreads his vast knowledge of the precious metals markets in a weekly column for Gold World. Greg is also the President of AmeriGold, a gold bullion dealer.
Robert Meier
Robert Meier has been a regular conference speaker since 1976, and a Gold Newsletter contributing editor since 1979. Bob founded the RMB Group in 1984. RMB specializes in "big move" option strategies in commodities, securities, ETFs -- and operates a separate foreign exchange (FX) trading desk, RMB FX Trader Assist.
RMB annually issues about 70 trade recommendations via their respected "Options Alert" publication, and are well-known for their Auto Trade service. Auto Trade saves clients time, trouble and helps eliminate the risk they will miss trade recommendations from newsletters and alert services by automatically making trades on behalf of the client.
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 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.
James Powell
Jim Powell has an extensive background in both the sciences and finance which has made his analysis of growth stocks and investment trends highly valued for over 25 years. He is best known to investors for his many years as the editor and research director of the popular newsletters High Tech Investor and ValuTALK. In addition, Jim is the author of two hardcover books, The Down Jones Irwin Guide to High Tech Investing and Super Investment trends.
Jim Powell currently stays in touch with the investing public through his monthly newsletter, Growth Stock Alert. Jim has been a frequent contributor to these investment conferences; his first attendance was in 1983 when he took part in Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street Panel.
Robert Prechter Jr.
Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, is founder and president of Elliott Wave International. He has been publishing market commentary since 1976. In 1989, Financial News Network (now CNBC) named him "Guru of the Decade."
Bob has written 13 books, most notably, Socionomics - The Science of History and Social Prediction. His recent title, Conquer the Crash, was a New York Times best-seller. In 1999, Bob received the CSTA's first annual A.J. Frost Memorial Award. In 2003, Traders Library granted him its Hall of Fame award. Recently Prechter has made presentations on his socionomic theory to university audiences.
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 consultant and independent mining analyst. 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.
Rick Rule
Rick Rule is chairman of Global Resource Investments, Ltd. Mr. Rule began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. A leading investor specializing in mining, energy, water, forest products and agriculture, he is a popular public speaker featured at investment conferences and resource investment forums throughout the world. His firm, Global Resource Investments, provides investment advice and brokerage service to individuals, corporations and institutions worldwide.
Mr. Rule is very active in private placement investment markets, and has originated and/or participated in several hundred transactions over the past 20 years, including both debt and equity in private, pre-public and public companies. Mr. Rule's private placement investment partnerships are up 50% compounded annually.
Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff is President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, a full service NASD-registered broker dealer which specializes in foreign securities. Mr. Schiff is a recognized expert in the domestic and foreign securities markets, as well as the currency and gold markets. He is well known to investors across the country. He speaks at all the major investment conferences, is quoted often in the all the major newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, LA Times, Barron’s, Business Week, etc. He is a regular feature on CNBC and Bloomberg T-V. His first book, Crash Proof, How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, will be published March 2007 by Wylie and Co.
Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of over 20 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. He is also chairman of Investment U, one of the largest investment e-letters in the country, with 300,000 subscribers, and the editor of three trading services. He is a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. His bestsellers include The Making of Modern Economics and Scrooge Investing. 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."
David W. Tice
David W. Tice is the founder and president of David W. Tice & Associates, LLC. The portfolio manager of the Prudent Bear Fund and the Prudent Global Income Fund, he also oversees the publication of Behind the Numbers, a provider of independent research to institutional investors.
Frank Trotter
Mr. Trotter leads EverBank Direct and is a founding partner of everbank.com, a national branchless bank that was acquired by the current EverBank in 2002, Mr. Trotter has over 20 years experience in the banking industry. He has served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Mercantile Bank Capital Markets and Director of the International Markets Division at Mark Twain Bank, where he created the World Currency family of deposits and directed the global launch of eCash™. Mr. Trotter is a graduate of St. Olaf College and holds an M.B.A from Washington University.
Martin Truax
Martin Truax is a managing director with Morgan Keegan, Inc. After starting his career teaching investment courses at a major university, he joined what later was to become Smith Barney as a financial consultant in 1971. Mr. Truax is the author of “Building Personal Wealth”, and wrote a client newsletter at Smith Barney. With over 35 years of experience, he continues to write that letter at Morgan Keegan today. Mr. Truax primarily works with private individual investors in their investment planning and portfolio management.
James Turk
James Turk is founder and chairman of GoldMoney (www.goldmoney.com), which provides a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold online. After graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in international economics, he has specialized in international banking, finance, and investments. He is co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (www.dollarcollapse.com)
Paul van Eeden
Paul van Eeden is well known for his work on the relationship between the gold price and currency markets. Originally from South Africa, he has an international perspective of markets and gold in particular. In addition to his expertise in gold, Mr. van Eeden has an insider's understanding of mineral exploration, having been intimately involved in the financing and evaluation of resource companies since 1995. He writes a free weekly column and a subscription based newsletter in which he describes his investments and the reasoning behind them.
Frank Veneroso
Currently a global market strategist with Allianz Dresdner, Frank Veneroso has spent more than three decades as a top-level market economist. He has advised countless governments, as well as the World Bank, on economic policy, served as a senior partner in one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and is a confidant and private advisor to many of today’s most influential investors and economic leaders. In 1998, he authored the ground-breaking “Gold Book,” detailing how years of central bank gold loans and sales had artificially depressed the gold price, and positioned the metal for a powerful rebound. Mr. Veneroso graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.
Chris Weber
He's been called the best investor on earth, but you'll never hear him say that...he's too superstitious. A professional investor since he was 16, he lives in Monaco and writes the Weber Global Opportunity Report: www.weberglobal.net. This is an extremely rare public appearance.
Tim Wood
Tim W. Wood, CPA is the editor and publisher of Cycles News & Views, which provides analyses on the stock, bond, gold and dollar markets and uses cycles to apply a Quantified Approach to classic Dow Theory. Tim combines a unique cycles approach learned from pioneer Walter Bressert, to develop statistical probabilities for future market action. These methods enabled him to successfully forecast, over one year in advance, the 2002 stock market decline. Tim has also developed his very unique Cycle Turn Indicator, which is used to identify important market turn points in a wide variety of markets. He predicts rocky times ahead as the market is approaching the window for another four year cycle low. www.cyclesman.com
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