Marc Faber
Marc Faber, aka Dr. Doom, is a leading economist and market forecaster renowned for his unconventional expertise in investment strategies. He has a reputation as a contrarian investor who has built a career anticipating the rise and fall of stock markets. Faber is the Editor of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, a widely-read investment letter which highlights unusual investment opportunities. He has cultivated a distinction that made him a regular commentator on the global economy, touring television studios and conferences the world over. Faber began his career working at financial institutions in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong during the early 1970s.
Marc Faber Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Publisher and Editor
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Managing Director
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economics, Magna Cum Laude
The report aims to warn investors when investment themes have become widely accepted and are, therefore, highly priced and risky.
It is an in depth economic and financial publication, which highlights unusual investment opportunities around the world.
Subscribers to the GBD report are those in a position to invest internationally and in all asset classes including bonds, equities, commodities and real estate.
MARKET FORECASTING
His knack for financial forecasting has impressed industry insiders worldwide.
He has made many of his most notorious predictions about how he sees the global economy developing, alongside his sometimes-colourful way of describing the big issues.
In 1987, he warned his clients to cash out before Black Monday in Wall Street.
He made them handsome profits by forecasting the burst in the Japanese Bubble in 1990.
He correctly predicted the collapse in US gaming stocks in 1993 and he foresaw the AsiaPacific financial crisis of 1997/98 and the resulting global volatility.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Faber is a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world, and a regular speaker at various investment seminars.
He is the author of “Tomorrow's Gold – Asia’s Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world.
He has been quoted or featured in Forbes, CNBC, The New York Times, Business Insider, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, Real Vision, and more.