Disseminated on behalf of: The Rule Symposium
- The Rule Symposium, one of the most impactful annual investment education events in the resource and commodity sector, will be held in Boca Raton, Fla., from July 6 to 10, 2026.
- This year’s gathering is now sold out of in-person registrations, with over 650 paid live delegates confirmed, while an unlimited number of live streaming registrations remain available, with more than 3,000 expected to join from over 33 countries.
- Over 80 industry speakers, including Brien Lundin, Grant Williams, Jay Martin, Nomi Prins, and Frank Holmes, will present an exclusive 52-hour program over four days.
Experience, excellence, and esteem
The Boca Raton Resort, with its distinctive hotels, spectacular ocean-front views, and placid yacht-lined marina, is considered by many discerning jetsetters to be the final word in elegance, luxury, and service in the Americas.
Accordingly, it is only fitting that this exemplar property has now become the annual backdrop for The Rule Symposium (July 6 to 10, 2026), reflecting this distinctive event’s own five-star rating and the esteem in which it is held by attending delegates from around the world.
The well-spoken man behind this consequential gathering of resource and commodity sector experts and investor delegates is Rick Rule, Founder and President of Rule Investment Media, which runs and hosts the annual conference. It also oversees a year-round web education forum known as The Rule Classroom, which provides more than 12,000 natural resource investors and speculators with online learning through a special education series, a monthly newsletter, and three to four one-day intensive ‘bootcamps’ that focus on singular investment topics for an eight-hour stretch.
Rule has been in the game a very long time and is roundly acknowledged by industry peers and pundits alike to be a genuine investing legend. With over 50 years under his belt researching and taking positions in companies globally across multiple resource sectors, including agriculture, alternative energy, forestry, oil and gas, mining, and water utilities, Rule speaks with the kind of sage wisdom and authority that can only come from rolling decades of diverse experience and hard-earned success.
In an interview just a few short months before attendees converge for another benchmark symposium in Boca Raton, Rule makes it clear that he takes management of the event that bears his name very seriously. He sees his stewardship almost as a fiduciary duty to provide his attendees with valuable perspectives that will fundamentally challenge their worldview and power their investment strategies.
Rule fundamentally believes that in natural resources, in cyclical businesses, you are either a contrarian, or you are going to be a victim.
“Most investors make at least two mistakes in that their decisions for the future are set by their experience in the immediate past, like everybody else’s, and so they invest in what worked,” says Rule. “The second, which is related to that, is that they require price movement in an investment class to justify the narrative around the class.”
Rule expands on this by explaining that everything that’s true about gold at $5,000 an ounce was true about gold at $1,500, but at $1,500, the narrative hadn’t been demonstrated by the price action. Arguably, he adds, if the facts surrounding gold haven’t changed, but the price has moved from $1,500 to $5,000, gold is 70 per cent less attractive now than it was then. Having said that, though, Rule is not suggesting people rotate out of gold.
“I’m just suggesting that my goal, my job as an educator, is to convince delegates to look at broadly held public precepts that are wrong, as George Soros says, and bet against them… to pay attention to investment strategies that are probabilities, but as yet haven’t been accompanied by the price movement that ratifies those strategies for most investors,” says Rule.
“And that’s what this conference mission is all about,” he added.
Resolute commitment and focus
Like previous iterations of the symposium, the programs for which have always drawn praise and rave reviews, Rule underscores that the upcoming event will follow similar lines and themes.
“We work to put in place big picture thinkers, macro people who teach our audience the way the world is, as opposed to the way that CBC or Fox News or Parliament or Congress would have them believe it was… that’s very important to us,” says Rule.
“We think that most people’s perceptions of the world and hence their perceptions around investing are shaped by narrative and news rather than by arithmetic, and so we try to focus people on that part of the news which is appropriate to their financial lives,” he added.
The conference is as intensive as ever, delivering 52 hours of programming over four days that will address global political shifts, government policies, resource supply chains, wars, trade agreements, tariffs, energy demand and production, central bank outlooks, and multiple other relevant topics. Rule expects his delegates to lean into the learning as a result.
“This event is not for people who buy the newspaper for the crossword puzzle and the funnies. This is not an entertainment product. We work our delegates very hard,” says Rule.
Rule is finalizing a lineup of big-picture industry speakers and macro-commentators, which means the event will be chock-full of thoughtful, hard-hitting, and eye-opening presentations, with practical applications.
The Rule Symposium brings together the best and brightest minds in finance, investment research, and natural resources, and this year’s lineup will feature a sparkling gallery of bright industry lights that include over 80 analysts, fund managers, executives, entrepreneurs, journalists, and commentators. Rule himself is also a marquee speaker at the event and a crowd favourite, personally moderating many of the sessions and panels as well.
“We have analysts coming who have been in the resource market for 30 or 40 years, and they’ve been through good markets and bad,” says Rule. “They have constructed all-weather portfolios, and they can teach a younger audience in particular how to avoid the mistakes they made when they were younger, which is very important.”
Industry luminaries such as Brien Lundin, Grant Williams, Jay Martin, Frank Holmes, and Robert Quartermain will join the speaker’s roster, as will American author, economist, and former Goldman Sachs partner Nomi Prins, whom Rule praises as a highly unique thinker with presentation skills that allow her to deliver complex topics in ways that are accessible to a broad audience.
“There’s nobody who can talk about the culture of Wall Street and why you need to be prepared to confront that, than somebody who grew up in the belly of the beast,” Rule says about Prins. “She is also an amazing participant who opens the conference having breakfast with attendees, and like many of our presenters, visits all the exhibitors, comes along on the boat cruises, and chats with delegates in the resort bar at day’s end.”
Rule also emphasises that every single exhibitor at his event has been strictly vetted, meaning if you are a public company, you have to be owned in the event sponsor’s accounts.
“There’s no guarantee because I own a stock that it goes up, but there’s a guarantee that I’ve looked very closely at each exhibitor in order for them to be on my floor,” says Rule.
“This year, we accepted 70 exhibitors and turned down over 120, which nobody else in the conference business does. The qualification to exhibit at every other investment conference I know of in the world is a cheque that cashes.”
No need to take notes either because Rule says his team records everything, including the breakout sessions, and whether you attend live or by live stream, you will have access to the recordings after the conference, which about one-third of attendees traditionally take advantage of.
A thousand conference architects
Rule also relies on his post-symposium delegate surveys to fine-tune future events, and is proud of the fact that attendees have significantly helped shape the 2026 program.
“Having a thousand people as the architects of my conference, rather than just me, is of great benefit, and we ask our past delegates about speakers they’d like to hear as well as topics we could cover going forward that we haven’t done before,” says Rule.
Rule says that as a consequence of this, the symposium will be adding two new panels to this year’s program, based on the Living Legends panel that has run for the last 25 years and has been the most popular feature of the event. This panel showcases the most consistently successful executives in the mining, exploration, and royalty streaming business who have built multi-billion dollar companies from scratch and educates attendees on how to identify $10 million market cap companies that are on their way to market caps of three or four billion.
“At our delegates’ direction, this year we will now begin to focus on the Future Legends of our industry as well, adding a new panel featuring the younger entrepreneurs in their 40s and 50s who already have a couple of successes under their belts, but haven’t yet obtained the success premium in the market that the old guys have,” says Rule.
“We’re also going to be adding an Investing Legends panel, comprised of people who have successfully managed billions of dollars through good markets and bad, to teach our attendees how to emulate the strategies that made them successful,” adds Rule.
Rule concludes by citing the event’s bulletproof money-back guarantee, which is proffered based on his rock-solid confidence in the value the symposium has always delivered in its exclusive lineup of speakers and presenters, as well as in its expansive and responsive programming.
Summing up his mission for this year’s conference, Rule draws his purpose from the two mistakes most investors make that he pointed out earlier in our discussion.
“It’s all about the necessity to be early in natural resources,” Rule says.
“That’s my single biggest challenge, and I think the success that we’ve enjoyed at teaching this lesson in so many different ways over the years is why this symposium has been so durable and so popular.”
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