John began his career in 1992 as an equity analyst on the Merrill Lynch global allocation fund (MALOX). From 1993-2019, John was a senior executive for Mutual Fund and ETF providers, spending most of his career at Merrill Lynch Funds (now Blackrock), JP Morgan Funds and Sprott Asset Management. He has contributed articles to Kitco since 2017 and was asked to be a regular contributor to Kitco (www.kitco.com) in June 2021, when he started his newsletter "The Feneck Commodities Report." John has owned shares of SVM since 2016 and can be reached at www.feneckconsulting.com