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We have all heard about men or women meeting with extraordinary success, having become important industrial and financial powers today, and who began with nothing or almost. Their success, often overwhelming, is mostly the fruit of perseverance, of a sharp and clear intelligence, of audacious courage, matched with a rare capacity to find innovative solutions and to estimate the taking of risks... The career of the Italian tycoon Giovanni Calabro, barely 40 years old today, is an edifying example of the commitments and challenges to which these outstanding personalities are confronted. From the start out to success, here is the career of a talented entrepreneur.
With a law diploma in his pocket (with distinction) the young Giovanni Calabro started out in the small family construction firm in Italy. He is also a music enthusiast (he has a music conservatory

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diploma), and is an accomplished sportsman (car rallies, boxing, football). He was barely 23 years old when he decided to go on his own and created his company, the present name of which is Calfinint, which 17 years later became an important holding company gathering some thirty powerful associates. This holding company developed its activities in manifold areas. Property promotion to begin with, particularly numerous fulfilments in the Middle East (Dubai, Riad, Abu Dhabi) and in Italy, where it concentrated on the purchase of building lands intended for the development of tourist and hotel plans. But besides a musical production company (his hobby), and investments in the field of health services, it is especially in pure finance that Giovanni Calabro orientated the activities of Calfinint, which holds the first European position today in redemption of credits and debts of States and to banking establishments. Thanks to these activities and according to reliable financial sources, the Net Asset Value of Calfinint is to this day more than 5 billion euros.

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Under the impulsion of its energetic chairman, and thanks to the effectiveness of an infallible Staff, the holding company continues developing with new partners, Swiss and Russian in particular. His new objective : trade and provisioning for defence of strategic raw materials (copper and nickel among others).

Mining effervescence and a shower of dollars to boost the mining industry occur when the USA pull out all the stops to assure the independence of their supplies
What does the term strategic precisely mean? These are critical metals because : they are essential in an economic activity such as health, security or defence. They were often neglected and abandoned by the mining activity. Rhodium (its price was multiplied by six in two years, passing from 1 000 $ an ounce to 6 000 $ an ounce) is necessary in the catalytic converters of the car industry, platinum is a catalyst for which there is no substitute in certain chemical reactions, molybdenum is necessary to steels in aeronautics and to oil well boring, lithium and rare earths are used by advanced electronics. Being rare is not everything. Rare earths, do not deserve their name and are found in abounding quantity everywhere. But following environmental pressures, the USA have ceased all extractions. The monopoly is consequently detained by China, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, tin, indium, nickel, selenium, titanium, wolfram and zinc. If the mention of copper can make one laugh, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago recalled however in February 2007 the idea of progressively withdrawing the

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Passions and private life of an international magnate of finance

Giovanni Calabro, besides his residences in London and Monaco, his grandiose villas in Rome on the lake Bracciano with private heliport, and in Cairo in the quarter of Zamalek, and a vast flat right in the centre of Milano, is acquiring in Geneva an important historical ownership located in the smart and residential quarter of Cologny; he is also looking for a large sailing boat the port of registry of which would be on the French Riviera. His other passions: his rare watch collection. He has more than 130, and proves to be particularly proud of a watch made by the Monegasque jeweller Repossi and of a unique piece which was offered to him by one of his Russian partners. One would be for less : this watch, specially made in his intention by the Franck Mller establishment is extremely rare and bears 62 karats of diamonds! This discreet jet setter (who fluently speaks 4 languages) and his wife Angela, a delightful Colombian, past model mother of a 16-year-old son (they are the true reference point of this man very linked to his family and particularly to his son Stefano), maintain very good terms with several governments, and we were able to see them quite often in the most classy and private establishments of Monaco together with Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconi (the children of the present head of the Italian government). Michelle Allardi

penny from circulation to avoid its recycling at the market price (more important than the facial value of the coin). In concrete terms, it is going to mean a shower of dollars on the activities of canvassing and of recycling, of taking of financial interests in mines located in friendly countries, the creation of strategic supplies... The activities of Calfinit in the area of strategic raw materials therefore have sunny days in front of them.

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