VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Brent Cook It seems the investment world is entering a period of uncertainty resulting from geopolitical issues including, but not limited to, BREXIT, US relations and tariffs with other countries, internal US political issues, slowing global growth, the rolling over...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Sid Rajeev The strong US$ impacted prices of most of the commodities in 2018. Zinc suffered the most (down 16% YoY), followed by platinum (down 12% YoY), and silver (down 7% YoY). The TSXV is down 29% YoY. Why it's Important: We expect commodity prices to...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Peter Spina The return of fear and uncertainty has come back to Wall Street and beyond. The recent instability in the markets coming from global central bank liquidity tightening along with rising rates is destabilizing a system addicted to artificial stimulus and...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Jeff Clark The world is filled with toppy markets, financial bubbles, and bloated debt levels in virtually every segment of society. And it’s all taken place within a global monetary system where, for the first known time in history, all currencies are...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Adrian Day The long period of Quantitative Easing following the credit crisis of 2008—ultra low interest rates and huge increases in central banks’ balance sheets—had consequences, expected and unexpected. In like manner, any period of tightening...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Paul Harris Funding for the junior exploration sector has been very hard to come by in 2018 but strategic investments from majors have continued as has M&A activity. Money has flowed towards established (safer) jurisdictions and away from emerging market...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Jeffrey M. Christian Traditional buy and hold investors have reduced their gold and silver purchases sharply. Shorter term investors seeking capital appreciation have become more active in gold and silver, both going long and shorting the metals. Mining companies are...

Although the gold price has had a tough time this year, market watchers believe that 2019 could mark the beginning of the next bull market for gold. The current price makes this the perfect time to pick up gold stocks and emerging mid-tier gold producers are proving to be the most attractive...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Gianni Kovacevic The global energy trade is pivoting towards a world powered by the magnificence of electricity. This 100-year trend is just getting started, find out how you can prosper from it! Why it's Important: The enablers of electrification take centre...

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". - Sherlock Holmes The Vancouver Resource Investment Conference has been the bellwether of the junior mining market for the last twenty-five years. In January, 2011, it was a struggle...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Frank Holmes Among the biggest trends we saw in 2018—since the spring, at least—was the global slowdown in manufacturing activity, prompted in large part by the U.S. trade war with some of its largest trading partners. The purchasing manager’s...

The 2019 Cantech Investment Conference, which has expanded to a two-day event taking place January 29-30 in Toronto, is pleased to announce the return of the Haywood Meeting Centre, hosted and sponsored by Haywood Securities Inc. The Haywood Meeting Centre will provide institutional investors and...

Why It Matters! Before you think, not another conference, keep reading! Especially if you are somewhere along the spectrum of a safe investor with RRSP’s and mutual funds all the way to the seasoned investor who has a wide portfolio and have earned $$$. You guessed it, that basically means...

VRIC 2019 Featured Speaker: Mickey Fulp - MercenaryGeologist.com Mickey's Bio: The Mercenary Geologist Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences with honor from the University of Tulsa, and M.Sc. Geology from the University of New...