HOW ADRIAN VAN ECK CAME TO PUBLISH THESE LETTERS:
Four decades ago, Adrian served a 5-year apprenticeship under a man he believes was the greatest forecaster who ever lived...George Danforth.
Ironically, the most famous forecaster in history -- Roger Babson -- was right next door then in the college town of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
Adrian then moved to Spear & Staff Inc., right on the nearby campus of the world-renowned Babson College...formed by that same Roger Babson. There he spent additional years working closely with Roger Spear, who had been not only a top executive for but also a close friend of Roger Babson in the early 1920s...when they virtually invented the investment advisory industry. Adrian gained great personal insights into the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s from Danforth and Spear...both of whom had made personal fortunes following their own timely advice!
Then Adrian spent 10 years with The Tillman Survey, Inc. in Providence, R.I....an advisory publisher formed in 1923. He was fortunate in being a close personal associate of James D. Kilpatrick...an esteemed analyst, and only the second President in Tillman's long history.
Finally in 1974, Adrian formed his own publishing firm (now The Financial Research Center Inc.) and began writing what is now The Money-Forecast Letter.
Now Adrian Van Eck has acquired the Tillman name...a proud link with the investment Worlds of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He has combined his own name with that of Tillman to form the Van Eck-Tillman Advisories. His son and protege - Jonathan Van Eck - is now Editor of The Tillman GOLD and Mutual Fund Advisory.
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