Keynote Speakers for the European Gold Forum 2012
PHILIP KLAPWIJK
Global Head of Metals Analytics, Thomson Reuters GFMS
Keynote Address, Tuesday, 17 April 2012
GOLD INVESTMENT TRENDS 2012
Philip Klapwijk has almost a quarter century of experience analysing the gold, silver and PGMs markets, most of this time working for GFMS (since August 2011 part of Thomson Reuters), which is the leading specialist research consultancy on the global precious metals markets. (Thomson Reuters GFMS, forexample, is the prime source of statistics on gold and silver markets worldwide.) Philip is responsible for all precious and base metals markets analysis and research at Thomson Reuters GFMS. He is afrequent speaker at conferences on precious metals and commodities and the print and electronic media regularly quote his views on the gold, silver and PGMs markets. He holds degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and the College d'Europe, Bruges
DR. MARTIN MURENBEELD, BSc., MSc., PhD
Chief Economist, Dundee Wealth
Keynote Address, Tuesday, 17 April 2012
THE BULLISH AND BEARISH CASES FOR GOLD
Martin Murenbeeld is the Chief Economist of DundeeWealth Inc. and head of DundeeWealth Economics, a division of DundeeWealth Inc. that provides independent analysis and advice on economic and fi nancial developments to both retail and institutional interests across North America and abroad.
DAVID HALE
Chairman, Hale Global Economics
Keynote Luncheon Speaker, Tuesday, 17 April 2012
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE IN A HARD ASSET GLOBAL ECONOMY
David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist whose clients include asset management companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is the founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics. Mr. Hale serves as the Global Economic Advisor to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services, which he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995. He advised the group’s fund management and insurance operations on both the economic outlook and a wide range of public policy issues until 2002, when he founded David Hale Global Economics.
Mr. Hale holds a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Hale is a member of the National Association of Business Economists, New York Society of Security Analysts, National Business Economics Issue Council, Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in both New York and Chicago, and is a long-time member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue.
He writes on a broad range of economic subjects and his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Australian Financial Review, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Interest, and other publications. He lectures worldwide, to groups including the World Economic Forum, the Fortune Global CEO Conference and the National Association of Governors. He has frequently testified before Congressional committees on domestic and international economic policy issues, and has done briefings for senior officials in the executive branch, including former President George W. Bush.
ROSS NORMAN
CEO, SHARPS PIXLEY
Keynote Address, Wednesday, 18 April 2012
GOLD AND SILVER BULLION INVESTMENT DEMAND - TRENDS AND FORECASTS
Sharps Pixley Ltd is owned by Ross Norman. Ross started his business career with entrepreneur and maverick Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair Research in Cambridge, before joining Johnson Matthey as Gold Refining Manager (then the worlds largest gold refiners), then as a gold trader at NM Rothschild & Sons (then the Chairman of the London Gold Fixing) and later Credit Suisse, where he was a Senior Dealer in physical bullion trading. Ross went on to co-found the leading precious metals website TheBullionDesk.com about 10 years ago until recently turning his energies to selling physical precious metals at Sharps Pixley, London.
Ross has an enviable record within the London Bullion Market in forecasting the gold price over the last decade and is frequently sought by the media for commentary on the bullion markets. Ross has made frequent appearances on TV (BBC, CNBC, CBC), in newspapares (FT. Wall Street Journal) as well as in the newswires (Reuters, Bloomberg and Dow Jones)
JAMES TURK
Restoring Stability to Global Commerce through Gold
Keynote Luncheon Speaker, Wednesday, 18 April 2012
RESTORING STABILITY TO GLOBAL COMMERCE THROUGH GOLD
James Turk has specialised in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. His business career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase Bank), which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He subsequently joined the investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987. From 1987 to 2009 James Turk wrote The Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment newsletter that published twenty issues annually. He is the author of two books and several monographs and articles on money and banking. He is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (Doubleday, December 2004), which has been updated for a paperback version entitled The Collapse of the Dollar.
MAGNUS ERICSSON
Keynote Address, Thursday, 19 April 2012
NEW GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION: TRENDS & FORECASTS
Magnus Ericsson is a co-founder and partner of the Raw Materials Group (RMG) and professor of mineral economics at the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. RMG is one of Europe's leading, independent group of mineral economists and mineral strategy/policy analysts. RMG specialises in global analysis of the mining industry starting with the proprietary ownership and production database Raw Materials Data covering coal, iron ore and all other metals. The Raw Materials Group advices mining companies, equipment manufacturers and providers of services to the mining industry, governments and international organisations world wide. Since January 2012 RMG is part of the IntierraRMG group based in Perth, Australia.
Magnus Ericsson has been engaged all around the world in his consultancy work.
AMITY SHLAES
AUTHOR, "Coolidge," "The Forgotten Man" (HarperCollins)
Keynote Luncheon Speaker, Thursday, 19 April 2012
THE GOLD CLAUSE IN PRIVATE CONTRACTS - A NEW GOLD STANDARD BY STEALTH?
Amity Shlaes is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition to writing on political economy, she writes on taxes. She is a contributor to Marketplace, the public radio show. She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows over the years.
Miss Shlaes was formerly a columnist for the Financial Times and, before that a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, specializing in economics. In the early 1990s she served as the Journal's features, or "op ed" editor. Prior to that she followed the collapse of communism for the Wall Street Journal/Europe. Over the years she has published in the National Review, the New Republic, Foreign Affairs (on the German economy), the American Spectator, the Suddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. In 2002 she contributed an article on the US tax code to the thirtieth anniversary anthology of Tax Notes, the scholarly journal.
Miss Shlaes has twice been a finalist for the Loeb Prize in commentary, her field's best known prize. In 2002 she was co-winner of the Frederic Bastiat Prize, an international prize for writing on political economy. In 2003, she spent several months at the American Academy in Berlin as the JP Morgan Fellow for finance and economy. In 2004, she gave the Bradley lecture at the American Enterprise Institute. Her essay, titled "The Chicken vs the Eagle" looked at the effect of the National Recovery Administration on the entrepreneur in the New Deal.
She is the author of The Greedy Hand (Random House/Harvest paperback), a national bestseller on America's experience with its tax code. She is also the author of Germany: The Empire Within (Farrar, Straus), a book about German national identity. In 2004, she was, with the late Robert L. Bartley, co-author of the contribution on tax philosophy to " Turning Intellect to Influence," an anthology chronicling the progress of free-market ideas as advanced by the Manhattan Institute.
Amity Shlaes is a trustee of the American Institute in Contemporary German Studies; she sits on the jury for the American Academy's fellows as well as the jury for the Bastiat Prize.
THORSTEN SCHULTE
Keynote Address, Friday, 20 April 2012
WHY SILVER IS THE BEST HEDGE AGAINST THE COMING GREAT INFLATION
Who is the Silverboy?
The Silverboy ist he well-known financial expert Thorsten Schulte from Germany. He has been working in the financial sector for many years. Today he is the leading expert for silver in the German-speaking region. As a frequent interview partner with major broadcasting stations and the leading newspapers in Germany he is promoting silver as the best inflation hedge. His first book “Silver – the better gold”, which was published in October 2010, has already been sold more than 21,000 times. Recently his new book, with the title “Protecting wealth: Investing in Silver”, was published.
Thorsten Schulte has been working as an investment banker from 1999 to 2008, where he was focused on the sector precious metals. He was a Vice President in the Frankfurt trading of Deutsche Bank as well as a director at DZ Bank. At DZ Bank he promoted the first commodity investment with German Volksbanken and introduced gold and silver as an investment in 2003.
For many years he is recommending investments in gold and silver. He knows from his own experience, that more and more senior bankers are questioning the current financial system and are protecting with precious metals against the problems of the US centric financial system.
He has a broad network of commodity specialists, metals trader, government officials, ECB economics, investment bankers and journalists. Thorsten Schulte is using this extended information network for his readers.
Thorsten is investing in silver since 2002 and is rigorously using every weakening of the price for the addition of new positions. He will start to sell silver only when taxi drivers, his friends in the sports clubs or this neighbors are recommending to invest in silver. However, he thinks that we still have a long way to go...
Wer ist der Silberjunge?
Der Silberjunge ist der bekannte Finanzexperte Thorsten Schulte aus Deutschland, der über langjährige Erfahrung im Bankwesen verfügt. Er kann mit Fug und Recht als der führende Silberexperte im deutschsprachigen Raum bezeichnet werden. Als gefragter Interviewpartner der großen Fernsehsender und führender Printmedien in Deutschland wirbt er für Silber als besten Inflationschutz. Sein Buch "Silber - das bessere Gold" erschien im Oktober 2010 und war mit über 21.000 verkauften Exemplaren bis Ende 2011 sehr erfolgreich. Ende 2011 erschien ein weiteres Buch mit dem Titel "Vermögen retten: in Silber investieren".
Thorsten Schulte war von 1999 bis Mitte 2008 im Investmentbanking tätig, wobei er sich eine besondere Kompetenz im Bereich der Edelmetalle erworben hat. U.a. wirkte er als Vice President im Frankfurter Handel der Deutschen Bank sowie als stellvertretender Abteilungsdirektor der Deutschen-Zentral Genossenschaftsbank. Bei der DZ Bank hat er die allerersten Rohstoffinvestments deutscher Volksbanken initiiert und das Gold- und Silberthema seit 2003 besetzt.
Seit Jahren rät er mit Entschiedenheit zu Gold- und Silberinvestments. Er weiß aus eigener Erfahrung, dass immer mehr Bankvorstände die Systemfrage stellen und sich mit Edelmetallen absichern wollen gegen die kommenden Unbilden unseres US-zentrischen Weltfinanzsystems.
Kontakte bestehen zu Rohstoffspezialisten, Edelmetallhändlern, Mitarbeitern in Ministerien, EZB, Volkswirten, Investmentbankern und natürlich zu einer Vielzahl von Journalisten. Er hat ein dichtes Informationsnetz gespannt, welches er zum Vorteil seiner Leser nutzt.
Er investiert in Silber seit 2002 und nutzt konsequent jede Marktschwäche zum weiteren Positionsaufbau. Erst wenn ihm die Taxifahrer, Sportfreunde etc. den todsicheren Tipp eines Edelmetallinvestments geben sollten, wird er Vorsicht walten lassen. Aber bis dahin ist es noch ein sehr, sehr weiter Weg.