The bard of the Boleyn, former stockbroker Lucian Miers first hit the headlines with his take-down of oil darling Pan Andean Resources in 1995. Over the following 27 years he has time and again shown himself one of the finest analysts of small and mid cap disasters waiting to happen.

Jim is a visionary entrepreneur with a flair for identifying emerging global trends. Most notably and very publicly, he predicted the credit crunch of 2007-08 in a book entitled "Wake Up! Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic Turmoil".

Managing Partner of short-seller ShadowFall

Started his longstanding career as an equity analyst with a leading firm of London stockbrokers, and was an investment columnist with the Financial Times.

He started several of his own City-based corporate finance, broking and investment management firms from which he subsequently obtained profitable exits. He has also established several publicly quoted groups in Hong Kong, Australia and North America as well as the UK with a focus on financial services, technology and resources. He is founder chairman of the Golden Prospect investment fund and remains an active chairman or director of various companies in venture investing and secondary markets .Active globally .

Peter Hambro has been involved in gold and mining for half a century. He founded Petropavlovsk and took it to the FTSE 250 before others and (then sanctions) took it into administration. Is gold a barbarous relic for very old men or are we missing the opportunity of a lifetime. Peter will explain all.