Ronald Stoeferle

About Ronald Stoeferle
During his studies in business administration and finance at the Vienna University of Economics and the University of Illinois, he worked for RZB in credit derivatives trading. After graduating, Stöferle joined Vienna based Erste Group, covering Asian Equities. In addition he started writing reports about gold back in 2006. The upcoming annual gold reports "a shiny outlook" and "in Gold we trust" drew international coverage on CNBC, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. In 2009 he took over coverage for crude oil. Stöferle is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and currently completing the CFTe program.

About Erste Group Bank
Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank (“Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse”). In 1997, Erste Group went public with a strategy to expand its retail business into Central and Eastern Europe.

Erste Group's customer base has grown through numerous acquisitions and organic growth from 600,000 to 17.3 million, of which 16.2 million clients are citizens of the European Union and benefit from the stable EU regulatory framework. These countries benefit from the stable EU regulatory framework. More than 52,000 employees are serving clients in over 3,000 branches in 8 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine).