Sam Volkering

Sam built a career advising private clients and businesses on how to manage their money and build their wealth. With a decade of financial advice under his belt he decided that it was time to change the game and combine his great passions in life (technology, writing and helping people to make money).

He joined our Australian affiliate Port Phillip Publishing in 2013 and has since become one of Australia’s most recognised financial editors.

As a child he revelled in the wonders of the Apple 2e and Macintosh. A life-changing trip to Japan’s ‘Electric Town’, Akihabara set him on a discovery of technology that will never end. Starting a small tech business in his 20’s, registering a patent in Australia and running several websites are just some examples of how he immerses himself in the world of technology.

But his real talents lie in uncovering, researching and investigating the world’s most revolutionary technology companies and trends before they hit the big time. He predicted the rise of 3D printing, the arrival of augmented reality and most notably the incredible shift to self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.

He first bought bitcoin in 2011, and ever since he has followed the cryptocurrencies 'wild west', becoming an authority in this new field of digital assets. Southbank Investment Research published his book Crypto Revolution: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and The Future of Money.

He travels the world meeting and engaging with inventors, founders, innovators and the most influential people in tech. His unique combination of financial acumen with an unwavering devotion to the most cutting edge technology makes Sam one of the most prodigious talents in our stable of editors.

Jim Rickards

Jim Rickards is an expert on the global monetary system, helping you understand how policies shape the markets… and impact your wallet.

In 2016, he predicted Donald Trump’s election victory as well as Britain’s exit from the European Union. In 2020, he warned that COVID protocols would lead to a global economic meltdown that wouldn’t be apparent for years. In 2022, his analysis proved true.

James’ clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He has conducted briefings for the board of directors at Morgan Stanley, the U.S. Treasury Department and Fidelity Research and Management, among many others.

The CIA once tasked him with figuring out if monitoring markets could help predict terrorist attacks. James and his colleagues eventually created a new branch of geopolitical analysis called MARKINT, which stands for “market intelligence.”

In addition, he served as a facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by The Pentagon. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives about the 2008 financial crisis. He is also Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics and global capital.

His work is regularly featured in the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and he is frequently a guest on the BBC, RTE Irish National Radio, CNN, NPR, CSPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.

James is a visiting lecturer at Northwestern School of Advanced International Studies, the U.S. Army War College and has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory as well as written numerous articles on risk management. He also has lectured at many universities, including Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Texas A&M University, Trinity College Dublin, The Kellogg School at Northwestern University and Georgetown University.

Rickards is the author of The New Case for Gold (2016) and six New York Times bestsellers: Currency Wars (2011), The Death of Money (2014), The Road to Ruin (2016), Aftermath (2019), The New Great Depression (2021), and Sold Out (2022). His latest book, MoneyGPT - AI and the Threat to the Global Economy, will be published in November, 2024.

In all, James has over 40 years of experience as an American lawyer, economist, government advisor, investment banker, speaker and author.

As a teenager, his father declared bankruptcy, which uprooted his entire family to a small fishing village. But James was determined to overcome the setback. He went on to earn a masters degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins University, a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree in taxation from New York University.

He’s worked for Citibank, Caxton Associates and Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), where he became the principal negotiator of LTCM’s bankruptcy procedures sponsored by the Federal Reserve in 1998

That experience — coupled with his experiences as a teenager — led him to realize that people are often at the mercy of financial forces they don’t understand. So he made it his mission to explain complex issues in simple terms… then give you the tools you need to benefit from them.

Kris Sayce

Kris Sayce began his career in the financial markets over 25 years ago in the City of London, where he specialized in small-cap stocks listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

In 2005, he turned his attention to financial publishing, going on to lead several high-profile investment newsletters—including The Daily Reckoning, Revolutionary Tech Investor, and New Frontier Investor. Among his most notable calls: urging investors to buy tech stocks at the dawn of the 2013 boom, and accurately forecasting the Chinese stock market surge of 2014–2015.

Now as Publisher of Southbank Investment Research, Kris is shaping the next generation of contrarian investing—arming readers with the insight and strategy needed to grow and protect their wealth in an era of global uncertainty.

Nickolai Hubble

Nickolai Hubble is chief strategist of The Fleet Street Letter and Fortune & Freedom, which are published by Southbank Investment Research. He’s also the editor of Jim Rickards Strategic Investment in Australia and a contributing editor of The Daily Reckoning Australia.

After finishing his degrees in finance and law at Bond University in Australia in 2009, working for an investment bank didn’t seem so enticing any more. An internship with his scholarship provider Goldman Sachs during the height of the financial crisis was quite enough of that.

Instead, Nickolai went to work for independent publishers that allow their analysts to predict the financial crises that investment bankers cause.

In 2012 Nickolai exposed the sub-prime practices of Australian banks to his readers at The Money for Life Letter. His accusations that bankers and mortgage brokers routinely manipulate their customers’ loan applications were vindicated by a Royal Commission in 2018.

In 2018 Nickolai predicted Italy’s budget battles would lead to “Bloody October” and successfully warned his subscribers about the worst period in financial markets since 2008. In August he compiled his predictions into a book called How the Euro Dies.

Nickolai doesn’t just investigate financial markets and predict crises and opportunities. He’s also a flying trapeze, juggling and chin balancing performer and instructor. He’s lived in England, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Australia, Thailand and Japan, stubbornly refusing to identify with any nationality.

Nickolai is the only person to have spun a plate on a stick while playing the bagpipes while swinging on a flying trapeze bar eight metres up in the air.