Critical Minerals and Energy Intelligence. Stay Ahead.
Welcome to The Oregon Group, an investment research team focused on:
• critical minerals
• mining
• energy
• geopolitics
• technology
The world is at an inflection point, the scale of which no one could have imagined 30 years ago. It is period of great risk but also great opportunity.
Our independent capital markets experts share their boardroom expertise and institutional experience to help you profit and hedge your investment exposure during this time of unmissable opportunity.
Our investment insights are sourced from a network of some of the world’s most successful commodities traders, fund managers, geo-political experts, miners, metallurgists and scientists.
Our key themes include: antimony, cobalt, copper, fluorspar, helium, gold / silver, lithium, natural gas / LNG, nickel, rare earths, tin, uranium.
Interviewed by the world’s leading media outlets, including Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Forbes, BNN, CNN Money, CNBC Squawk Box, and NIKKEI Asia.
The Oregon Group is for investors who want to be ahead of the curve, who think in angles and timing, and who know the importance of the big picture when it comes to investing.
Anthony Milewski — founder, The Oregon Group
Anthony Milewski has two passions: the outdoors and investing. At any moment you might find him skiing in France, fly fishing in Alaska, white water rafting in Oregon, or wide awake in the middle of the night analyzing news releases and financial statements.
Anthony realized early on that a truly rewarding career needed to include following his passions. But how to do this? As a Fulbright scholar, he spent time in the former Soviet Union and saw firsthand the changes brought about by the privatization of vast swaths of the regional economies. He also noted the great potential in building companies on the back of these changes and, for a time, was employed by Renaissance Capital in Moscow, Russia, working with entrepreneurs and natural resource companies. Upon graduating from the University of Washington, with a MA in international studies and a JD in law, he took a job at New York based Skadden, Arps where he became immersed in commodity transactions. Anthony would later transition from Skadden to Firebird Management in New York where he worked in the Global Macro funds.
Anthony’s time at Firebird had a profound impact on his investment style. He realized that you can “get a call right” but the “timing wrong”. Investing, as much as anything, is about understanding the themes and ideas that shape our world, environment, and capital markets. It was this realization that helped to shape his views on identifying themes, thinking about liquidity, and ultimately making successful investment decisions. No one ever lost money selling for a gain! After leaving Firebird he went on to work with other major funds as a c-level executive specializing in global origination and investment processes. This time cemented his views on risk mitigation and liquidity.
After years in the asset management business, Anthony realized it was time to strike out on his own, and he has since founded and taken several companies public. To date, he has helped raise over a billion dollars for listed companies on various exchanges around the globe. In a sense, this was Act Two of his career.
All told, Anthony has served as a founder, advisor, director, executive and investor. He now pursues investment ideas that make money and make the world a better place. That might mean investing in nickel as key ingredient in batteries, carbon as a way of saving forests, copper for the electrification of things, artificial intelligence to help reduce the impact of farming on our environment — the list goes on.
Christian Purefoy
Christian Purefoy landed and successfully pitched his first stories to the international press twenty years ago.
Hired by CNN International as their Nigeria and West Africa Correspondent, he spent over ten years reporting on everything from geopolitics, armed conflict, oil exploration and global investments, to religion and regional militancy. In particular, in the Niger Delta region, Christian saw first-hand both the opportunity and conflict inherent in the oil industry.
His experience with CNN helped shape Christian’s understanding of the main drivers behind global events and market trends – knowledge that he found crucial as he became an investor.
Christian went on to found Third Mainland Entertainment, a news and media company based in the US, UK, West and East Africa, using the rapidly growing online marketplace to connect local stories in Africa with the diaspora in the West. The platform would go on to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, hundreds of millions of viewers.
After selling his stake in Third Mainland, Christian returned to the UK where he works as a consultant, analyst and investor, focused on a variety of sectors, including energy, commodities and geopolitics.
The Oregon Archive
The team has been sharing their thoughts and predictions in interviews and corporate blogs extensively over the years. You can read a our past articles, podcasts and videos in our archive.