In this week's roundtable podcastfocused on energy guests Richard Kang, Alex Stanczyk, and Brett Newman discuss the recent spike in oil, peak oil and its impact upon the global economy, and alternative investment opportunities.

Richard Kang has been active in both institutional and individual asset/risk management for over twelve years with extensive experience in multi asset class mandates as well as strategies applying the use of passive instruments. Richard spent six years with a Toronto based investment firm whose services for institutional investors focused on various hedge fund strategies. Subsequently, Richard built and managed the investment management subsidiary of a private wealth firm. In 2002, Richard co-founded an investment firm managing long-only GAA mandates for private investors and short-only “beta filtering” overlays for multi-strategy hedge funds/FOFs. In addition to running his firm, Richard was retained by a FOFs for two years as its Chief Investment Officer. He currently writes a blog, The Beta Brief and consults to a small number of indexing/ETF providers and asset allocators.

Alex Stanczyk is the editor of Your Financial Future. Mr. Stanczyk has launched numerous businesses, acted as the CEO of a Publicly Traded US Company, and brings over 21 years of business experience to YFF. He has authored numerous articles, mentored hundreds in personal finance and wealth building, and spends at least 4 hours each day studying the global markets, drawing insight and conclusions from the flows of global commerce. As an Affiliate of Anglo Far East Bullion Company, Mr. Stanczyk specializes in teaching foundational principles of money, the gold market, and why gold has been a storehouse for wealth for thousands of years.

Brett Newman is a private energy and natural resources investor based in Atlanta, Georgia and is a frequent guest here at The Market Traders.

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