Hera Research, LLC
Continuous Wealth Creation from Natural Resources
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Researching companies that discover, develop and produce natural resources from a value investing standpoint is the raison d'être of Hera Research, LLC.  Since evaluating resource companies requires specialized expertise, value investing is the best methodology to find outstanding companies at sensible prices and to realize substantial gains over a longer time horizon while value is created and eventually recognized.

Hera Research produces original geopolitical, macroeconomic and financial market analysis related to global supply and demand and competition for natural resources.  Hera Research services include evaluation of companies and portfolios, as well as analyses of strategic resources, such as lithium or graphite, in terms of conventional economic factors and in terms of geopolitics and other factors.  Hera Research also provides investor education for investment professionals who are new to the resource sector, e.g., gold, silver and platinum group metals.


Hera Research clients include institutional investors, financial advisors, fund managers and accredited individual investors.
Ron Hera produces world class research for resource industry and institutional clients and he teaches investors and investment professionals how to evaluate resource companies.  Ron Hera developed the Hera Research Resource Company Lifecycle Model, which balances risk and growth in portfolios that include multiple resource types and companies at different stages in their developmental lifecycles.  The result is a continuous wealth creation process that creates a snowball effect.

Ron Hera, who has spoken before many large, professional audiences at events in Europe and North America, is available for speaking engagements, such as conferences and investment seminars.


To schedule portfolio reviews, request research reports on particular companies or resources, book training sessions for investors or groups of investment professionals, or to arrange a speaking engagement call +1 (360) 339-8541.
High Priestess of Hera, Maria Nafpliotou, lit a torch in Athens, Greece on October 29, 2009 from the flame originating at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece, ending the Greek leg of the Olympic torch relay.  The Flame was then carried to Canada and ultimately reached the Olympic Cauldron in Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 12, 2010.
In keeping with the traditions of ancient Greece, the lighting of the Olympic flame for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games took place at the Temple of Hera in ancient Olympia, Greece, on March 25, 2008.  Beginning in 776 BCE, the Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held for representatives of the various city-states of Ancient Greece.  The Games were usually held every four years, or Olympiad.  During a celebration of the Games, an Olympic Truce was enacted to enable athletes to travel from their countries to Olympia in safety.
In the ceremony, the High Priestess (actress Maria Nafpliotou) prayed to the sun god Apollo before the temple where the Olympic flame was lit according to an ancient method, where the sun's rays are focused through a parabolic mirror to ignite the flame.  Reminiscent of Hera's daughter Hebe, the cupbearer of the gods, Priestess Thalia Prokopiou held a replica of an ancient urn to receive the sacred flame from the High Priestess.  The urn bearing the sacred flame was transported to the stadium of ancient Olympia where it was used to light the first Olympic torch.
Hera is worshiped throughout Greece, and the oldest and most important temples were consecrated to her.  The Temple of Hera in ancient Olympia, Greece, a Heraion, that encompasses several minor temples and altars, is the oldest of the structures at Olympia and the earliest monumental temple in Greece.  Built circa 600 BCE, the original columns for the Heraion were of wood, but they were eventually replaced with Doric marble columns.  The dedication to Hera is confirmed by votive gifts, mostly small female terracotta statues carrying the Greek letters Eta Rho Alpha (H P A).  Gifts from worshipers are regularly buried in consecrated pits near the temple.