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9th
Day in Iranian hostage crisis.
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Axel
Merk
Axel Merk, president of Merk Investments, makes
all investment decisions for the Merk Hard Currency
Fund. Mr. Merk founded Merk Investments AG in
Switzerland in 1994; in 2001, he relocated the
business to the US where all investment advisory
activities are conducted by Merk Investments LLC,
a SEC-registered investment adviser.
Warren
Buffett:
Buffett
is chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which
makes the long-term investments which Buffett
is so adept at choosing.
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The Merk Hard Currency Fund is managed by Merk
Investments, an investment advisory firm that
invests with discipline and long-term focus while
adapting to changing environments.
Axel Merk, president of Merk Investments, makes
all investment decisions for the Merk Hard Currency
Fund. Mr. Merk founded Merk Investments AG in
Switzerland in 1994; in 2001, he relocated the
business to the US where all investment advisory
activities are conducted by Merk Investments LLC,
a SEC-registered investment adviser.
Mr. Merk holds a BA in Economics
(magna cum laude) and MSc in Computer Science
from Brown University, Rhode Island. Mr. Merk
has extensive experience and expertise in how
the global financial imbalances, as evidenced
by an enormous trade deficit, affect the markets.
He has published many articles describing complex
economic phenomena in understandable terms and
he is a sought after expert presenter and moderator
at conferences. Mr. Merk is a regular guest on
CNBC, and frequently quoted in Barron's, the Wall
Street Journal, Financial Times, and other financial
publications.
In addition to 20 years of practical
investment experience, Mr. Merk has a strong foundation
in both economic analysis and computer modeling.
His research in the early 1990s focused on the
use of computer-aided models in financial decision
making; he is a published author in “Adaptive
Intelligent Systems” * and has been awarded
a prize for excellence in economics. **
Mr. Merk focused on fundamental
analysis of US technology firms in the early to
mid 1990s, he diversified to other industries
to manage volatility in his investments. In the
second half of the 1990s, Mr. Merk received an
early warning of the building bubble when he recognized
that more and more companies were trading in tandem,
causing the diversification offered through investing
in other industries to diminish. As a result,
he broadened his investments internationally.
As the bubble burst and Greenspan and the Administration
preserved US consumer spending through record
low interest rates and tax cuts, imbalances in
the global financial markets reached levels that
Mr. Merk deemed unsustainable. Merk Investments
has since pursued a macro-economic approach to
investing, with substantial gold and hard currency
exposure.
Merk Investments is making the
Merk Hard Currency Fund available to retail investors
to allow them to diversify their portfolios and,
through the fund, invest in a basket of hard currencies.
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Berkshire Hathaway:
Warren
Buffett-
Warren
Buffett’s determination and creativity have
made him who he is now: the chairman of a long-term
investment company which has more than $2 billion
in holdings. As a child, Buffett was already ambitious.
He was an enthusiastic and industrious paper boy
for the Washington Post, and tried to cover more
than one route at the same time. He also made
money by collecting and selling lost golf balls.
Buffett’s interest in finance was clear extremely
early on in his life. He started playing the stock
market with one of his sisters when he was eleven.
At twelve, he was betting on horses, and by high
school he had started a business (pinball machines)
with a friend, which earned him fifty dollars
a week. Not only did he own a business by graduation,
but he also had bought himself forty acres of
Nebraskan farm land with his profit. Graduate
school was a formative time for Buffett. It was
there that he met Benjamin Graham, an economic
scholar whose work Buffett had begun studying
in college. Buffett believed strongly in Graham’s
theory that it is wise to look for stocks of companies
which are undervalued, which will most probably
prosper with a little time. Thus began Buffett’s
untraditional approach to portfolio management.
After working for his father’s investment
banking company for the three years after business
school, Buffett returned to Graham and worked
as a security analyst at Graham’s company
for two years until 1956. In that year, at the
age of twenty-five, Buffett started his own investment
company, the Buffett Partnership, using $5,000
of his own funds and collecting $100,000 from
interested friends and family. One of the smartest
moves made by Buffet’s company at that time
was to invest in American Express. In 1963, a
scandal surrounded AmEx, and Wall Street believed
the company was near the end. But Buffett, always
with his wits about him and his thinking cap on,
noticed when in restaurants and shops that customers
were still using the card to buy. He went ahead
and bought 5 percent of the stock, which by 1961
had risen from 35 to 189 market points. Buffett
is now chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which
makes the long-term investments which Buffett
is so adept at choosing.
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