Institutional Speakers

	Franz Artmüller
	Franz Artmüller is responsible for the Marketing (New Media, Graphics and Design) of Münze Österreich AG in Vienna since 1991. He began his education with a big Austrian savings bank, where he was responsible for Customer Service in the following years. In 1982 he advanced to the credit union sector to become Counters and Fund Manager an Austrian private bank.

Uwe Bergold

For more than 5 years Uwe Bergold was head of one of the most successful asset management companies in Germany. In several publications, he warned of the stock crash in March 2000, and a year later accurately predicted the gold boom. His strategies as asset manager were hailed by various press (Die Welt, Fuchsreport, Welt am Sonntag) as “utterly outstanding”. He frequently appears as a guest on Bloomberg TV and n-tv. Since 2004, Welt am Sonntag places him amongst the elite of German gold experts. Mr. Bergold is Funds Advisor to the capital investment company of the long-established private bank Sal. Oppenheim, as well as an independent financial publicist and author of various books. His latest book, which he co-wrote with Roland Eller, "Investmentstrategien mir Rohstoffen"(Investment Strategies with Commodities) is one of the standard works on the topic. Since 2006 he is associate and manager of Global Resources Invest GmbH & Co. KG with Christian Wolf. He is responsible for the investment strategies of the two public funds NOAH-Mix OP (WKN: 979 953) and GR Dynamik OP (WKN: A0H 0W9).

Torsten G. Dennin

Torsten Dennin is the Portfolio Manager in the field of private asset management at Deutsche Bank since 2003. He studied economics at the University of Cologne and at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. As Portfolio Manager, his research focus is on commodities and stocks of the basic materials sector. In the field of asset management, Mr. Dennin is responsible for the discretionary handling of commodity investments and strategies, and is advisor to the DB Flexible Commodity Fund, a commodity fund which is managed on the principle of absolute return. Next to his professional responsibilities, Mr. Dennin is finishing a dissertation on "Commodity Futures in Asset Management" and appears frequently as a guest on television and in the press.

	Martina Gruber
	Martina Gruber, Clearstream AG, has 17 years experience in the financial industry. She spent seven years at Deutsche Börse AG and is familiar with the entire process chain of stock exchange trading (issuance, trading, clearing, custody). Prior to that, she was employed at Financial Markets Service Bank GmbH, in Munich, at Management Team Business Consulting, Wiesbaden, and at KPMG in Frankfurt.

	Folker Hellmeyer
	Folker Hellmeyer began his career as foreign exchange trader with Deutsche Bank in Hamburg and London in 1984. Since 1995 the banking professional is working with Helaba in Frankfurt, and since April 2002 he is Chief Analyst with Bremer Landesbank. Furthermore, Folker Hellmeyer is a popular guest in TV shows and expert discussions on finance, for example on n-tv or Bloomberg TV.

Martin Mack

Martin Mack, born in 1963, is a trained banker and graduate in business management. During his studies he co-founded the Mack & Weise Depotmanagement GbR with Herwig Weise in 1989, which became Mack & Weise Vermögensverwaltung GmbH in 1994. As one of the first German asset managers, Mack & Weise founded the public fund M & W Capital in 2001, which offers investors the access to the "real" asset management. Since 2006 the super fund M & W Privat completes a wider spectrum for investments, compared to M & W Capital.

Markus Mezger

Markus Mezger (born in 1966) worked for the Baden-Württembergische Bank AG in Stuttgart from 1997 until summer of 2005. At the beginning of his career he was responsible for the investment strategies in Eastern Europe, and precisely recognized the new trends in the fields of precious metals and commodities. He published many in-depth special reports about long-term investment strategies in precious metals, currencies and stocks. In September 2005 he co-founded the Tiberius Asset Management AG with Christoph Eibl. The company specialized in asset management of investments in the commodity market sector. In the past few years Mr. Mezger has become a known author and speaker.

	Dirk Müller
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	Steffen Orben
	Steffen Orben, Deutsche Bank AG, has 15 years experience in currencies and commodities. For more than 11 years he has held a variety of different positions in currency and commodities trading for Deutsche Bank AG. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was a currency trader at JP Morgan in London.

	Prof. Max Otte
	Matthias - aka "Max" - Otte is Professor for General and International Economics (C-3), specialized in Corporate Finance at the Technical College of Worms University of Applied Sciences. His work fields are as following: International Capital Markets, share analysis and asset management, as well as Post-Merger-Integration in cross-border mergers and business culture. Mr. Otte is sole shareholder and CEO of Institut für Vermögensentwicklung GmbH (IFVE), which advises private investors on distribution of wealth and portfolio management since 2003. Since 2005 IFVE GmbH advises the Pléiade Privatinvestor Fonds. Mr. Otte was elected President of the Board of Privatinvestor Verwaltungs AG in Herdern (Switzerland) in 2005. As part of his function as investment banker he supported Management-buy-ins, sales of companies and financings. He published more than a dozen books, "Der Crash kommt" became a bestseller.

Dr. Thorsten Polleit

Thorsten Polleit is working as Chief German Economist for Barclays Capital since October 2000. Prior to that he worked for ABN AMRO in Frankfurt am Main, London and Amsterdam and became Chief German Economist for ABN AMRO Deutschland AG in March 1998. Mr. Polleit studied Business Sciences at the Westfalian Wilhelms-Universität in Munster and earned his doctorate in 1995. He founded "ECB Observer" in 2000, an independent watch group of the ECB, and is a member in the "EZB-Schattenrat" since 2002. In 2003 Thorsten Polleit was appointed honorary professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is a member of Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Gesellschaft and of the research network "Research on Money in the Economy" (ROME). His focus of interest lies on monetary economics, especially monetary theory and politics as well as monetary market theory.

Martin Siegel

From earliest childhood on, 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".

James Turk

James Turk has specialized 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. Since then Mr. Turk has acted as Chief Executive of Greenfield Associates, a firm he established in 1985 to publish his work and to provide investment research and trading advice, principally to investment managers, hedge funds and commodity trading advisors in the United States and Europe. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Director of Lion Resource Management Ltd. of London. Mr. Turk is the Founder of GoldMoney, a new electronic currency for use in ecommerce. Furthermore he is a well know book author and columnist.

Claus Vogt

After finishing his business studies degree at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Claus Vogt worked for two international banks before he moved to the Berliner Effektenbank AG in 2000. As head of research, he is responsible (among many other things) for the customer magazine "Performance". He co-wrote the highly regarded book "Das Greenspan Dossier" with Roland Leuschel and since 2005 he has been the editor-in-chief of the market letter "Sicheres Geld" (Safe Money).

Philipp Vorndran

Since January 2009 Philipp Vorndran is a member of the Investment Team of Flossbach & von Storch. The internationally known strategist will not only work in the field of asset allocation but also support the sales team by giving speeches on the investment strategy of the company at conferences and events. Philipp Vorndran worked for Credit Suisse Group for more than 11 years, where he held several positions. He was Global Chief Strategist of asset management as well as CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management GmbH in Germany from 2004 to 2006. He began hi career with Julius Baer Bank in Frankfurt and Zurich. From 1992 to 1996 he - amongst others - managed the derivatives section of Julius Baer Asset Management. Vorndran graduated his Studies of Economics at the University of Würzburg and was assistant professor to Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Wenger for several years.

Eugen Weinberg

Eugen Weinberg, who holds a degree in Economical Mathematics, was born and raised in Russia. He came to Germany in 1999 to enroll in an MBA course. After that he was employed as a fund manager and commodities analyst (utilities, metals, companies) with BW Bank in Stuttgart where he made contributions to several products and publications. Until early 2007 he worked as commodities expert for the DZ BANK AG in Frankfurt, and since April 2009 he is a Senior Commodity Analyst at the Commerzbank in Frankfurt.

Herbert Wüstefeld

Herbert Wüstefeld worked as a trader/ analyst in futures and options trading for different brokers from 1979-1991. At the end of the 1990s he quit working as an independent gentleman and has since applied his experience and specialist knowledge at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in Frankfurt, trading derivatives since 2000. As client services manager for structured stock products, he is involved in all stages of product development and is responsible for the co-ordination and running of client-service processes.

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