Mr. Chapman is 72 years old. He was born in Boston, MA and attended Northeastern
University majoring in business management. He spent three years in the U. S.
Army Counterintelligence, mostly in Europe. He speaks German and French and is
conversant in Spanish. He lived in Europe for six years, off and on, three years
in Africa, a year in Canada and a year in the Bahamas.
Mr. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those
years he owned his own brokerage firm. He was probably the largest gold and
silver stockbroker in the world during that period. When he retired he had over
6,000 clients.
From 1962 through 1976 he specialized in South African gold shares. He and
his family lived in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg,
South Africa from 1970 to 1973. During that time he did a great deal of further
study into the South African mining industry.
Mr. Chapman belonged to The Traders Association for 25 years. He did all his
own trading. During his South African years some was done directly through
Johannesburg, but 95% was done through London brokerage firms. Hence, he has
extensive contacts, both in London and on the Continent.
Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance,
economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over
200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30,000
subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a
compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and
political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly
directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites
weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week.
In 1976, after the Soweto riots, Mr. Chapman began buying North American
shares exclusively for his clients. Up to that point only a handful of American
and Canadian issues interested him, due to the high dividends the South African
shares had paid out over the years. Between 1976 and 1988 his business surged
from 1,000 to 6,000 clients, so the bulk of his business ended up being
Vancouver Stock Exchange issues. For this reason he is very conversant with the
quality of management, geologists, properties and traders on today’s North
American scene. He is well known.
From 1976 to present he has spoke and given workshops at over 200 business
conferences worldwide, and has been on radio and TV hundreds of times. Until his
retirement he was always judged by the attendees to be one of the top three
speakers and never once was lower than first in workshops due to his vast
knowledge of the mining business and his grasp of worldwide financial markets
and political scenes.
In June of 1991, at the request of business associates, and due to retirement
boredom, he began writing the International Forecaster.
