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Keeping track of all the publicly traded gold companies is a herculean task and one the average investor is seldom cut out for, said Thom Calandra of the Calandra Report when discussing the gold sector with the Investing News Network at the New Orleans Investment Conference.

What's the ideal way to get into gold stocks right now? According to Rick Rule of Sprott, investors should begin by buying the best of the best. "In the equities we are suggesting to people that at the beginning of a gold bull market you want to buy the best of the best stocks," he said at the New Orleans Investment Conference. "If you have a cycle where the index has moved 200 percent to 1,200 percent on the upside, you don't need to outperform the market, you just need to perform with the market. So rather than increase risk to try and outperform an already hot market, our belief is that most investors should try to reduce risk — buy the best five or six stocks in the industry, hold on for the two or three year time frame."

The current flavour of the month or the year means nothing to Bert Koth, who is managing director and partner at Denham Capital. Koth was at IMARC to take part in a panel discussing the top projects of the last 12 months. He helpfully noted early though that at Denham they don't comment on other people's projects.

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