Background and Personal Life
Calandra was a commentator on investing topics for almost 25 years, and was the San Francisco Examiner's daily investing columnist. He also appeared on the CBS Evening News, CBS Radio Network, and the CBS MarketWatch Weekend television show. Calandra was also a longtime journalist for many newspapers and wire services. He was a London-based columnist for Bloomberg News and was the online financial editor of USAToday.com. The TJFR Group named Calandra one of the top 100 financial journalists in the United States.
Calandra was editor of the 2002 book How America Made a Fortune and Lost Its Shirt. He was an investor in Bambi Francisco’s Vator.tv. He is the author of a self-published novel, Pablo By Numbers.
Calandra holds a Master's degree in English from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor's degree of Arts from City University of New York at Brooklyn College. He lives with his wife and two children in Tiburon, California. He visits approximately 35 natural resources properties each year across Africa, the Americas, Africa and Europe. He is an investor in the privately held Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum in the Republic of South Africa. Most of his holdings are in natural resources, primarily gold, silver, platinum, molybdenum and copper.
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