About
MineFund.com was established in March 2010 as a subsidiary of Alpha Found, LLC. Alpha Found is a new media venture owned by Timothy Wood.
Tim was recently appointed Executive Director for the Denver Gold Group . DGG is a not-for-profit industry association that produces invitation only precious metal investment conferences.
Prior to returning to self-employment, Tim ran International Investment Conferences, a producer of mining investment networking events that includes the world class Mining Indaba. He came into the position with blended experience in the media and mining industries.
Tim gained a working knowledge of the mining industry as well as commercial Internet applications during a stint at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa.
He moved into the media world as the first Internet Editor for the Sunday Times. From there he went on to be founding editor of a number of publications. He was also a founding director of Moneyweb, a media venture traded on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange since 1999. He founded Resource Investor in 2004, which is now controlled by private equity owned publisher Summit Business Media.
Tim and his family emigrated from South Africa in 2000 through the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery. They became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2010.
Tim has a graduate degree in International Relations, and a Diploma in Business Administration. He read for the degrees at Wits University after completing compulsory military service, which included an operational tour just prior to the cessation of the Angolan war.
Complementing his focus on mining finance and investment writing, Tim also has numerous investigative credits to his name. These include uncovering secret audits of the UN Oil for Food Programme, and documenting a secret visit to South Africa by North Korean officials in search of nuclear assets. He has also recruited leading speakers such as Niall Ferguson to speak at events.
Who reads MineFund.com?
MineFund is read by a roughly equal balance of retail investors, industry professionals, and institutional investors. A sample of recent readers includes:
- ABN Amro
- Accenture
- Ameriprise Financial
- AngloGold Ashanti
- ANZ Banking Group
- ArcelorMittal
- Australian Trade Commission
- AXA Financial
- AXA Rosenberg Group
- Bain & Company
- Bank of America
- Bank of Greece
- Bank of Montreal
- Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
- Banque Paribas
- Banyan Partners
- Barclays Bank
- Barrick Gold
- Black Horse Investments
- Bloomberg Financial Markets
- BNP Paribas
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Boston Consulting Group
- Buckingham Asset Management
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Calvert Group
- Candente Resource Corp.
- Cannacord Capital
- Caterpillar
- Caterpillar Financial
- Central Bank of Belgium
- Chevron
- CIBC World Markets
- Citic Capital Holdings
- Citigroup
- Commerzbank
- CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets
- CPM Group
- Credit Agricole (Suisse) SA
- Credit Suisse Group
- Dahlman-Rose
- Den Danske Bank
- Deutsche Bank
- Dundee Securities
- DZ Private Bank
- Executive Office of the President of the United States
- The Economist magazine
- Edward Jones
- Eldorado Gold
- Euro Pacific Capital
- Euromoney Institutional Investor
- Equinix Asia Pacific
- Experian
- Fast Markets Ltd
- Fidelity Investments
- Financiere Banque Nationale
- First Derivatives
- First New York Securities
- First Quantum Minerals
- First Rand Bank
- First Securities ASA Oslo
- Fleishman Hillard
- Fleming Family and Partners (Russia)
- Freeport-Mcmoran
- GARP Research & Securities
- General Electric
- GFMS
- Glass Lewis & Co.
- Globe & Mail (Canada)
- Gold Corporation (Perth Mint, Australia)
- Goldcorp
- Goldman Sachs
- Goldman Sachs JBWere
- Goodman & Co Investment Council
- Guggenheim Transparent Value
- Grace Financial Group
- Greywolf Capital
- Grupo Santander
- H.C. Starck
- Hansberger Global Investors
- Heraeus
- Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
- HSBC
- Investment Company Institute
- Jefferies & Company
- Johnson Matthey
- JP Morgan Chase
- Kinross Gold
- Kirkland Lake Gold
- KPMG
- Kroll Group
- Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Lazard Freres
- Liberty Mutual
- Lloyds Bank
- Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
- Macquarie Bank
- Macquarie Capital Markets
- Macquarie Holdings
- Man Financial
- Merrill Lynch
- Metlife
- Mitsubishi Corporation UK
- Mizuho Corporate Bank
- MKS Finance
- Moody’s Investor Service
- Morgan Keegan & Company
- Morgan Stanley Group
- Morningstar
- National Association of Securities Dealers
- Newcrest Mining
- Newmont Mining
- Nomura
- Nordea Bank Denmark
- Norton Rose
- Occidental Petroleum
- Old Mutual
- Old Mutual Financial Services (UK)
- Olma Investment Company
- Open Society Institute
- Oppenheimer & Co.
- Oxus Mining
- Passport Capital
- Paul Capital Partners
- Paulson & Company
- Pictet & Cie
- PNC Bank
- Price Futures Group
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- R3 Capital Partners
- RBC Wealth Management
- Raiffesisenbank
- Randgold Resources
- Raymond James Financial
- Raytheon Corp.
- Raw Materials Group
- Reuters
- Rio Tinto
- Robert W. Baird Company
- Roth Capital Partners
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- SAC Global Investors
- Scotia McLeod
- Shanghai Futures Exchange
- Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
- SNC-Lavalin
- Standard Bank
- Standard Bank Investment Corporation
- State Street Bank & Trust
- Stifel Nicolaus
- Stillwater Mining
- Stonehage
- Svenska Handelsbanken
- Swiss Re
- The Mining Journal
- Thomas Miller & Co
- Thomson Information Services
- TKB BNP Paribas Investment Partners
- Tiberius Asset Management
- Toronto Dominion Bank
- Toronto Stock Exchange
- UBS
- UMB Bank
- Umicore
- US Dept of Interior: Bureau of Land Management
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- US Geological Survey
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
- US Department of State
- Vanguard Group
- Wachovia
- Wells Fargo
- World Bank
- World Gold Council
- World Gold Trust