Senior Technology Editor, The Economist

Kenneth Cukier is senior editor, digital products at The Economist where he oversees data analytics and manages their new digital product development. Prior to this, he was data editor following a decade at the paper covering business and technology.

co-founder, Quantum Fund and Creator, The Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI)

American businessman, investor, traveler, financial commentator and author based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).

Chairman, O'Leary Funds and Shark Tank Investor

Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian businessman, investor, writer, financial commentator, and television and radio personality. He is co-founder and chairman of O’Leary Funds and the co-founder of SoftKey. He previously served as a commentator on Canada’s CBC Television and CBC News Network program The Lang and O’Leary Exchange and hosted Redemption Inc. Kevin is an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank and was a venture capitalist “dragon” on CBC Television’s Dragons’ Den.

Editor, Stansberry Churchouse Research

Tama-Richard along with his father Peter established Churchouse Publishing Limited in 2012, with the aim of bringing independent, no-nonsense analysis and research to those who take an active interest in creating and managing their own wealth. He draws on extensive experience gained by nearly a decade working for investment banks in Asia, most recently at JPMorgan working on derivative structuring and marketing across a wide range of asset classes (including rates, credit, equity and FX) for private banks in the Asia region as part of the Structuring and Solutions Group. Tama-Richard also oversaw Alternative Investment Structuring in Algorithmic Index Strategies, as well as other bespoke longevity and equity hybrid structuring. Prior to joining JPMorgan, Tama-Richard worked in Derivative Solutions at ABN Amro.

Author, The Buy Side

Turney is a former trader at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, the Galleon Group, where their founder and several Galleon employees were found guilty of insider trading. Turney was an unlikely Wall Street trader as a “B” student from Ohio University but soon rose through the ranks and then fell prey to the trappings of Wall Street: money, sex, drugs, alcohol and power. Encouraged to socialize with the sell-side and siphon from his new broker friends for as much information as possible, Turney chronicles his spectacular rise and fall in his book, The Buy Side; A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess.

co-founder and CEO, Stansberry Asset Managment

Prior to launching SAM, he co-founded and led Sabretooth Capital, an event-driven fund that invested in distressed credit and equities, and managed $1 billion in assets for investors including Julian H. Robertson, the Rockefeller family, and several highly regarded endowments. He also worked at Eton Park Capital Management, a large hedge fund spun out of Goldman Sachs, as the first analyst hired into the Special Situations Group.

Editor and Founder, Grant's Interest Rate Observer

James Grant is the editor and founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal on the financial markets. Grant founded Grant’s Interest Rate Observer in 1983. Prior to that Grant started writing for Barron’s in 1975. Grant originated a weekly column devoted to interest rates called Current Yield. Grant has appeared on many major financial news networks. His journalism has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs, and he contributed an essay to the Sixth Edition of Graham and Dodd’s “Security Analysis” In 2013 Grant was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame.

President, Tice Capital

Tice founded the Prudent Bear Fund (BEARX) and served as portfolio manager from 1996-2008. For the ten years ended 12/08 when Tice sold the fund, BEARX increased in value at a 8.0% annualized rate, while the S&P 500 lost 1.4% annually. Tice utilized short sales of overvalued common stocks and stock indices, as well as being long mining companies to achieve a negatively-correlated investment return profile.

Editor and Publisher, The Gartman Letter

Dennis Gartman is the editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, a daily commentary on the global capital markets, distributed to subscribers each business day. The letter addresses political, economic, and technical trends from both long-term and short-term perspectives. The subscribers include leading banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, mutual funds, and energy and grain trading firms from around the world.

Editor, Chris Mayer's Focus and the Bonner Private Portfolio

Chris learned the art of valuing companies the hard way – clocking a decade as a corporate banker while also earning his MBA. After 11 years with Agora Financial – during which he wrote two very successful research letters – Chris joined Bonner & Partners to develop a first-of-its-kind investment advisory. Launched in April 2016, Bonner Private Portfolio is the only trading service ever to be actively followed by Bill Bonner. In fact, Bill’s family trust has committed to invest $5 million in Chris’s model portfolio.