Rick Rule

About the Author

Rick Rule

Founder and CEO of Global Resource Investments (GRI), Rick Rule began his career in the securities business in 1974 and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. Rule's company has built a sterling reputation for its specialist expertise in taking advantage of global opportunities in the resources industries. Last month, Rule closed a landmark deal with Eric Sprott, another famous powerhouse in the arena. With GRI now a wholly owned subsidiary, Sprott, Inc. manages a portfolio of small-cap resource investments worth more than $8 billion and boasts a workforce of more than 130 professionals in Canada and the U.S. 

• Is the Natural Resource Bull Market Over?

  By Rick Rule  |  September 28, 2012

  The precipitous declines in commodity prices and the prices of natural resource equities – particularly, junior resource equities – have caused many commentators to declare that the natural resource bull market is dead.

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  The Energy Crisis Is Here – How to Play It

  By Marin Katusa, Louis James, Rick Rule  |  September 19, 2012

  The individual investor may not have the power to shift the tone of the emotional debates surrounding the oil and gas industry, but he or she can devise a strategy to profit.

• Why I’m Excited about This Gold Market

  By Rick Rule  |  April 27, 2012

  The markets are a lot less expensive than they were, and this can only be good news for buyers. Markets work, as we have said. Expensive markets collapse of their own weight, cheap markets rise as greed overwhelms fear.

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  By Rick Rule  |  April 12, 2012

  This year the junior resource sector will present investors and speculators with both unparalleled opportunity and risk. I see a year where unwary sector investors underperform in painful fashion, while discriminating stock pickers perform very well.