Diary of a High Net Worth Investor

In this episode we’ll hear from two business partners, one from the Spanish island of Majorca and the other from that financial hot spot in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man. They have very different backgrounds but a shared love of all things financial. Unusually for two guys steeped in the traditional, regulated financial world, they were early adopters of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and eventually decided to launch the world’s first digital asset fund of funds under their Block Asset Management company. Their names are  Kevin Ballard and Manuel Du Luque. Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

David Fleck is at the forefront of the technology that will shape our future in the areas of health, life sciences and clean energy. Through close ties with the California Institute Of Technology his venture capital firm, Freeflow, invests in everything from drug discovery to space technology and provides all kinds of ongoing support to its portfolio companies. His career has included consultancy with PWC and Bain, product management at Google and building and selling audience engagement platform Disqus. Outside of business he is heavily involved with Family Promise, a charity helping homeless children across America.  His firm has a unique way of working with founders. often spending the best part of a year getting to know them before making a decision to invest. Then, he's happy to wait for 7-10 years for an exit. All of which surely qualifies him as the most patient VC in Silicon Valley! Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

It's very rare to find an entrepreneur who is shaking up a major asset class through new technology and new thinking. In today's episode we meet just such a man in Canadian Antony Abell, CEO of TPX Property Exchanges. He's lived in the UK for many years, including a spell in the army and as an Olympic skiing coach before turning to the business world. He's been involved with 24 companies in 28 years and his latest venture is the most disruptive yet - turning property into liquid funds through TPX Property Exchanges. The London exchange is the first to launch, with 20 other target sites around the world planned for the next 18 months. The social and economic impact of this platform will be huge, enabling young families to buy half price homes and the asset rich and cash poor to achieve instant liquidity without the compound interest of equity release or lifetime mortgages.     Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

We kick off season 2 of Diary of a High Net Worth Investor with one of the most interesting people I know in the investment world. Swen Lorenz, like Warren Buffet, started buying stocks and shares as a teenager and never stopped. His gift is unearthing unusual opportunities and special situations anywhere on the planet, even including a way of playing Donald Trump's interest in Greenland! Swen shares his findings through UndervaluedShares.com and by hosting dinners with thought leaders on every continent. He presents the best ideas at the annual  Weird Shit Investing summit and has recently launched a new community for 'Poor Millionaires', those with a net worth of £2 - 20 million who he and I agree are poorly served by the financial services industry.             Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

My guest today spent over 30 years as a fund manager with organisations like Investec and Hambro and has always managed to combine that role with writing about investing for a wider audience. He has written for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Times, but is perhaps best known for his frequent articles in Money Week, Britain’s best selling financial magazine. He keeps his hand in as a non executive director at the Ecofin Global Infrastructure and Utilities Trust and the Gore St Energy Storage Fund. I can also confidently claim that he is the first guest to appear on this podcast who is a member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. His name is Max King. Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

My guest today is a former Vice President of ABN Amro who has carved out a niche as one of the UK’s leading experts on investing in gold. Money Week magazine asked him to produce their Metals & Miners newsletter while he then worked with the legendary US investor Jim Rickards to set up the Gold Speculator service. He’s a regular speaker at industry events and is often interviewed in the press and on TV whenever gold becomes flavour of the month as it very much seems to be at the moment. He also helps commodity companies such as gold miners to raise capital so he gets the inside track on some exciting companies before they become well known to the public. He wrote the book on How To Invest In Gold and he offers a package called the Gold Programme to get people started with the yellow metal. His name is Simon Popple.Learn more at https://www.goldprogram.co.uk/ Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

My guest today may be the person for whom the word polymath was invented. He’s an author, a comedian, a TV presenter, a voiceover artist and an expert on precious metals and crypto currencies where his articles can be read in almost every issue of Money Week magazine. He also publishes the Flying Frisby on substack, an investment bulletin read by over 5,000 people in 107 countries. He even made the hit parade with his pro Brexit song 17 million F-Offs. His name is Dominic Frisby Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

My guest today mirrored my own career path in providing billing systems for telecoms companies before joining the board of a silicon valley CRM software company for six years. His exit from that company has enabled him to pursue his passion, which is promoting the philosophy and ideas of one of my favourite authors, Ayn Rand. In 2012 he co-founded the Ayn Rand Centre in Israel and in 2018 became President and CEO of the main Ayn Rand Institute in America. He found a video of mine on Youtube where I reviewed Ayn’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged and that led to a beautiful gift of a framed facsimile of Ayn’s hand written transcript of the first and last pages of Atlas Shrugged arriving at the Beaufort office in Richmond. When I got in touch to thank him I realised that he has a fascinating story to share which is why he joins us today. His name is Tal Tsfany.If you want to donate to the work of the Ayn Rand Institute in providing copies of Atlas Shrugged to teenagers you can do so at https://ari.aynrand.org/donate/ Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

My guest today is a former officer in the Grenadier Guards who then went into the city and started a 25 year career in fund management. From 1998 to 2015 he was Head of Absolute Return at HSBC Global Asset Management with $3bn under management. He was then Chief Investment Officer at Newscape until 2018 before heading up the Multi Asset team at Atlantic House Fund Management where his fund ranked 1st out of 47 in its sector. In 2020 he left to found Bytetree, a research and asset management company where he has become best know for his Whisky and Soda portfolios and for a unique index that combines Bitcoin and Gold to great effect. His name is Charlie Morris. Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview

I find it easy to empathise with my guest today because he had a long and successful corporate career with multinationals before redundancy forced him to turn his hobby into a business. For me it was a career in IT followed by a move into alternative investments. For him, board level roles with major distillers and packaging companies followed by a move into full time property investment. He now owns over 100 properties valued in the multi-millions and shares a lifetime of property experience through Touchstone Education, run with the help of his wife Aniko and specializing in the more niche areas of bricks and mortar such as commercial property and serviced accommodation. He now lives in Monaco from where he joins me today. I have to say I’m worried about getting a word in edgeways because he also holds the Guinness World Record for continuous talking! His name is Paul Smith. Ready to start your own Eight Figure Journey? Join me on the next FREE Preview broadcast at Eight Figure Journey Preview