International Precious Metals & Commodities Show

Markus Miller worked for well-known private banks in the areas of private banking, discount brokerage, treasury, asset management, securities trading and business development for many years. In addition to the German banking sector, the qualified wealth manager and sales manager has gained experience at internationally active banks and consulting firms in Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. His company, GEOPOLITICAL BIZ S.L.U. (Spanish GmbH) is a company registered in the Spanish commercial register with its registered office on the Balearic island of Mallorca. The information, communication and consulting platform www.geopolitical.biz was founded by Markus Miller in 2005 and coordinates an international information and communication network of tax consultants, lawyers, economics and finance experts. Markus Miller is chief analyst for the two well-known business services “Kapitalschutzconfidential” and “KRYPTO-X”.

Prof. Dr. Max Otte teaches at the Institut für Unternehmensführung und Entrepreneurship at the University of Graz. He is an expert for economy and finance and a renowned authority in the field of value investing. He published many books and articles about economic and financial topics. His book "Der Crash kommt" (The crash is coming) became a best-seller. Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Otte founded the institute IFVE for asset development and worked as chief editor of the capital investment letter DER PRIVATINVESTOR. He was also director of the Zentrum für Value Investing e.V. and was elected three years in a row (2009-2011) "Börsianer des Jahres" (broker of the year) by Börse Online. He developed a strategy and specifically for that reason a fund was launched in 2008. Besides, Prof. Dr. Otte is chief partner of the Privatinvestor Vermögensmanagement GmbH and of the Privatinvestor Verwaltungs AG.   

Steffen Paulick is a qualified bank clerk and has been working in the banking sector since 1982. From 1992 onwards he has specialised in assets consultancy with private customers. Since 2001 he has promoted investing in precious metals to maintain purchasing power. At the same time he trains staff for this type of investment. Moreover he has held several presentations on that particular topic at customer events over the past two years. His last banking positions were in the cooperative system, with Postbank Vermögensberatung (Postbank Assets Consultancy), and as marketing director for proaurorum in Munich. Today he works as an independent asset manager.

Since April 2012 Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit is responsible for the economic analyses on the topics of  business activity, precious metals and financial markets, and monetary and economic policy. Previously, since 2000 Dr. Polleit worked for the British investment bank Barclays Capital in Germany, before that he worked as chief economist for ABN Amro in London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.

Since 2003 he is honorary professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Dr. Polleit specializes in financial and capital market theory and is an advocate of the "Austrian School of economics". He is member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Gesellschaft and Adjunct Fellow at the Luwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Dr. Polleit teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at the University of Bayreuth and is co-founder of the research network "The Roleof Money in the Economy (ROME)".

In 1996, Dr. Polleit obtained his doctorate at the University of Münster.

Austrian by birth, Johann A. Saiger is the editor of the second longest-standing market letter "Goldbrief- und Goldminen-Spiegel" and of the "Midas Investment Report". In countless presentations and seminars, the expert has presented long-term inflation and economic cycles with reference to his thesis and examinations.

Volker Schnabel was born in 1966 in Berlin. His A-Level and apprenticeship in a bank were followed by his successful studies in business economics. Since 2007 he is working as Senior Analyst (macro) and head of marketing services for the asset management company "Mack & Weise Vermögensverwaltung" in Hamburg.

Holding in Bachelor's Degree in Banking & Finance, Wolfgang Seybold has gained extensive investment experience in the mining sector over a period of more than 25 years. In 1991, he subscribed his first private placement for an investment in a potash explorer, which later turned out to be a tenbagger. He has a preference for gold and silver, as he does not see them only as precious metals, but rather as currency. Furthermore, he has been a consultant to resource & mining corporations in the field of corporate finance and corporate communications since 2001. As Managing Director of AXINO Investment GmbH, he invests his family office money in lucrative small caps in the resource & mining sector making Wolfgang a specialist for mining companies with a broad network within that sector.

Already when he was a youngster, Mr. Martin Siegel has invested in precious metals. Many readers remember him as Chief Editor of the magazine "The Gold Market" (founded in 1987), which he published until the end of 2008. From 1992 to 1997 he wrote numerous books on the development of the gold market and the investment opportunities in the commodity market. Today he is the fund manager of the gold fund Stabilitas Pacific Gold + Metals (WKN: A0M L6U), which shifted his focus to Australian mining shares. Furthermore he is the founder and co-owner of the precious metals tradings house "Westgold.de".

Dimitri Speck specialises in pattern recognition and in the development of trading systems. He is the editor of www.SeasonalCharts.de. This site provides seasonal charts for interested investors free of charge. Other focal topics are market anomalies, gold and commodities.

Ronald-Peter Stöferle, MSc was born in Vienna on 27th October 1980. He studied Business Administration and Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and in the USA. During the following three years, he was working as a trainee student in the fields of  Fixed Income and Credit Investments at Raiffeisen Zentralbank. In 2006, he began working for Erste Group in Vienna. Since 2007, Stöferle has written the internationally acclaimed "In Gold we Trust" reports, which have been quoted amongst others by Bloomberg TV, CNBC as well as The Wall Street Journal or The Economist. Furthermore, he was responsible for the analysis of oil and gold in the Erste Group for more than four years. Apart from his research activities, Stöferle was also responsible for the management of two baskets of gold shares and one basket of silver shares.

Since 2013, Stöferle has been partner and member of the management of Liechtenstein-based Incrementum AG. He is co-manager of a commodity fund and issues a global macro fund being based on the Austrian School of economics. In addition, he is a member and lecturer at the Institut für Wertewirtschaft in Vienna as well as a lecturer at Wiener Börse Akademie.

Christian Vartian has more than 20 years of work experience in real economy investment banking. After his studies he worked as a specialist for the implementation of entire industrial enterprises thus advising private as well as public companies on infrastructure, real estate, and power plant projects, amongst others the Austrian electricity company and Gaz de France. In doing so, he worked closely together with U.S. investment banks.

During his investment activities in the real economy he was mainly involved in projects that generated cash flow for refinancing and barely needed equity capital. After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Vartyan resigned from these activities and started to focus on holding, measuring and hedging of precious metals. The respective performance of gold, silver, platinum and palladium has been monitored in weekly publications since 1st January 2010.

Christian Vartian became Head of Commodity for the Swiss asset management companies GIP AG and Valex AG in 2012. Together with the CEOs of GIP AG and Valex AG he is working as asset manager for a precious metal fund of Vatex and the LGT Group.

“Egon von Greyerz is the Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG (MAM)  and GoldSwitzerland based in Zurich, Switzerland. MAM specialises in wealth preservation for high net worth individuals as well as institutions.

GoldSwitzerland is the precious metals division of MAM. GoldSwitzerland buys, sells, transfers and stores precious metals for investors. The metals are stored in the name of the clients in ultra-secure vaults in Switzerland. MAM also assists clients in transferring existing gold and silver holdings out of the banking system to the private vaults. Clients have full control of their gold and silver bars which are allocated and segregated. Clients have personal access to the vaults to inspect or collect their metals.

EvG forecasted the current present problems in the world economy over 10 years ago. In 2002 when gold was $300 per ounce,  MAM recommended to its investors to put 50% of their investment assets into physical gold stored outside the banking system.

Egon von Greyerz started his working life in Geneva as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years as Finance Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of  a FTSE 100 company in the UK.

Since the 1990s EvG  has been actively involved with financial investment activities including Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management an asset management company based on wealth preservation principles. The GoldSwitzerland Division  was created to facilitate the buying and storage of physical gold and silver for private investors, companies, trusts and pension funds.

MAM is associated with  the Aquila Group, Switzerland's largest independent asset management group. EvG makes regular media appearances such as on KWN, CNBC and BBC and speaks at investment conferences around the world. He also publishes articles on precious metals,  the world economy and wealth preservation.”