Meet the Editors

The Sovereign Society’s highly qualified Council of Experts consists of carefully chosen professionals located in select tax and asset havens around the world. Our experts have spent their careers discovering the best global investments, the safest tax havens and the most secure devices in which to protect your assets.

Listed below are just a handful of the experts we’ve identified in the world of offshore investing. But accessing detailed information about our experts, including how to contact them, is a members-only benefit.

Our global network of banks, investment specialists, financial consultants, and legal professionals has proven itself over the last 13 years to thousands of Sovereign Society members. These experts are the best in the business.

Erika Nolan – Publisher, The Sovereign Society

Erika Nolan

Erika Nolan began her career in the health care industry as a public relations and marketing executive for a US$3 billion, publicly traded company. She acted as the company spokesperson, directed all marketing strategies and oversaw the integration of new company acquisitions. Ms. Nolan directed a change leadership initiative for Integrated Health Services to improve the company’s overall operations and increase U.S. market share.

In 1998, she was recruited to be the Senior Publisher for The Sovereign Society, an offshore, asset protection and international finance organization. She has brought with her an extensive knowledge of marketing and operational expertise, which has contributed to our high record of success. Ms. Nolan travels extensively throughout Europe, the Caribbean and Central America.

Jeff D. Opdyke – Investment Director and Editor of The Sovereign Individual, and Emerging Market Strategist

Jeff Opdyke

As a lifelong world traveler, Jeff Opdyke has been investing directly in the international markets since 1995, making him one of the true pioneers of foreign trading. These days, he is the editor of the Emerging Market Strategist and The Sovereign Individual, the Sovereign Society’s monthly asset protection and investment newsletter.

Jeff’s passion is finding the renegade plays “on the ground” in overseas markets, and uncovering those explosive trends long before they become mainstream.

In addition to his passion and talent for investing “in country,” Jeff has written about personal finance, family finance and the investment markets for The Wall Street Journal for almost two decades, including the Journal’s nationally syndicated “Love & Money” column. His work has been published in upward of 80 newspapers nationwide.

He is also the author of six books, including Financially Ever After and Piggybanking: Preparing Your Financial Life for Kids and Your Kids for a Financial Life.

Robert E. Bauman, JD – Legal Counsel, Editor of Offshore Confidential and Chairman of Freedom Alliance

Bob BaumanRobert E. “Bob” Bauman, legal counsel to The Sovereign Society, serves on its board of directors and was the founding editor of The Sovereign Society Offshore A-Letter, more than a decade ago.

Sovereign Society members and many others know Bob as the prolific author of many articles, reports and books. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, National Review, Human Events and many other publications.

He is the author of The Gentleman from Maryland (Hearst Book Publishing, 1985), and many Sovereign Society publications including The Complete Guide to Offshore Residency, Dual Citizenship & Second Passports (9th ed. 2011), Where to Stash Your Cash: Offshore Financial Centers of the World (6th ed. 2011), Swiss Money Secrets (2008), Panama Money Secrets (2005), Forbidden Knowledge (7th ed. 2011), and The Offshore Money Manual (Society, 2000).

Bob is also the Chairman of The Freedom Alliance, your one-stop reference point for up-to-date, critical information about protecting your wealth and freeing yourself from unnecessary taxes and government oversight.

Sean Hyman – Editor of Currency Cross Trader and Commodity Trend Alert

Sean HymanWith over 20 years’ experience as a stockbroker, manager, and trader – Sean has helped countless thousands of investors build their portfolios in both up and down markets.

Sean’s background stretches over many financial instruments: stocks, options, mutual funds, ETFs and currencies and commodities. However, through the years, he’s gravitated towards the enormous profit potential in the Forex and Commodities markets because these markets have the best opportunities – even when markets are crashing. He also loves the flexibility of a market that trades 24-hours a day, has tight spreads and larger volume than any other market in the world.

Sean loves sharing that knowledge with others. A born teacher, Sean used to teach special courses to up-and-coming Forex traders. Today, thousands of our readers use their vacation-time and fly cross-country to attend Sean Hyman’s workshops each year. He’s the editor in chief of our most popular Forex trading research publication, Currency Cross Trader– and without a doubt, the most skilled “Professor of FX” you’ll ever meet.

Sean is also the editor for our premier commodities service, Commodity Trend Alert. Main St. may not be affected by the movement of a stock, but they’re certainly affected by the movement of commodities. Sean has followed commodities heavily for a number of years, and guides his CTA subscribers so they can take advantage of this while beating the effects of inflation at the same time.

Evaldo Albuquerque – Editor of Pure Income

Evaldo AlbuquerqueEvaldo Albuquerque is one of the top young traders in America today. This native Brazilian has achieved a level of accuracy rarely seen. Of course, past performance does not guarantee future results, but Evaldo is one of the few analysts we know, who’s been able to tap into the best opportunities to generate safe, steady monthly income. Each week, Evaldo shares those off-the-radar opportunities and his best research with his Pure Income subscribers.

Pure Income provides insight and analysis to help subscribers quickly multiply their monthly income and earn an annual yield of at least 11%.