Maria is a portfolio manager with 17 years of experience in the financial services industry. She began her career at Excel Funds Management as operations manager, and subsequently worked in Product Development at Fidelity Investments. Maria has been part of the Sprott precious metals team since 2005 and has been a portfolio manager on the Sprott Silver Equities Class since its inception in 2014.

0 - Opening 1:36 - What are precious metals? 2:01 - What is a precious metals equities mutual fund? 2:19 - How are they structured? 3:57 - When investing in a precious metals equity mutual fund, are you investing in the performance of the underlying commodity, the management teams of the mining companies or is it the mineral deposits you are buying in to? 6:23 - Why would someone invest in a company that is focused on precious metals? 8:47 - At Sprott you manage a number of precious metals funds, why did you choose to manage this fund, in other words why silver? 11:53 - What factors tend to drive the price of silver? 12:45 - Why do you have a positive outlook on silver, why continue to invest with it as a focus? 14:36 - Outside of immediate tax cuts and outside of the speculation what do you feel will be really positive for silver and gold in the long run? 15:35 - With regards to the declining number of discoveries, is it discoveries that are not as accessible or overall there are less silver deposits globally? 17:56 - Can you describe the ideal investor for a precious metals fund? 19:12 - Would it be a fair statement to say, gold can do well when equity markets are doing well, and it can also do well when equity markets are doing bad because people are looking for new havens for their money and will put their money in to gold and silver? 21:04 - Did you manage money through the financial crisis and what are some of the lessons you learned? 23:22 - Closing

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