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Roger S. Conrad

About Roger S. Conrad

Roger Conrad is North America's leading authority on utility stocks and income investing. He's helped his loyal readers rack up safe, steady double-digit gains of 13.3% annually since 1990. And he's done it all with a focus on capital preservation and risk minimization that's helped his readers avoid the catastrophes of the tech bubble, the Lehman Brothers crash and numerous other hiccups along the way.

Roger is editor of Utility Forecaster, the nation's leading advisory on essential services stocks, bonds and preferred stocks. Utility Forecaster was named the top-performing investment newsletter of 2011 by The Hulbert Financial Digest. His proprietary safety rating system evaluates the prospects of every significant electric, natural gas, telecommunications and water company, including utility-based mutual funds and foreign utilities. Roger's penchant for detailed research and his studied insights into utilities markets have garnered him a wide audience of subscribers--not to mention a bevy of industry awards for his perceptive reporting, commentary and investment advice.

He brings the same enthusiasm and intelligence to Roger Conrad's Canadian Edge, an Internet-based publication devoted to uncovering lucrative investment opportunities in Canadian royalty trusts. Subscribers and the national media often contact him for information on the latest economic developments and investment opportunities north of the border.

Roger's latest product is finding safe, high-yield income stocks in the resource-rich country of Australia. He has partnered with David Dittman on Investing Daily's newest product, Australian Edge, guiding readers to massive profits Down Under. Australia has a compelling history of a strong economy, well-managed resources and fast growth from supplying the developing world.

Roger is also associate editor of Personal Finance and co-editor of MLP Profits, which covers high-yielding master limited partnerships and includes sample portfolios for aggressive and conservative investors, advice on the tax treatment of MLPs and proprietary ratings of every name in the Alerian MLP Index. Moreover, Roger is co-editor of Big Yield Hunting, which guides its subscribers to a strong, secure and high-yielding company each month. With Elliott Gue, Roger contributes the popular Metals and Mining portfolio to Global Investment Strategist.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). In addition, he is the author of Power Hungry: Strategic Investing in Telecommunications, Utilities and Other Essential Services and coauthor of The Agile Investor and Market Timing for the Nineties with Stephen Leeb. He is also an avid outdoorsman and baseball fan.

Roger's weekly and bi-weekly e-letters: Down Under Digest, Maple Leaf Memo, MLP Investing Insider, Passport to Profits, Utility & Income

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04/26/12: Changing Horses

Making a switch to greener pastures.

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Changing Horses

Forget the old saw, about not changing horses in midstream. Sometimes, we see a company that’s in the same business as one of our portfolio picks that we like better, so we make the switch. We’ve enhanced our Metals and Mining Portfolio with a commodity titan that’s poised to take off.
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Buy the Mine, Not the Metal

Mining companies that manage their capital to consistently grow production and reserves, while controlling costs, always finish the cycle on higher ground, raising shareholder value. Read More

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Mining on a Major Scale

A possible deal between a miner and a metals trader could create a company with sufficient scale to survive and prosper in a difficult industry.

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Metals and Mining: Bigger and Further

Mining’s unique operating challenges are driving industry consolidation. But even as successful mining companies continually expand their scale to meet demand, they assume more operating, financial and political risk along the way.

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Spending Equals Growth for Mining Companies

A miner’s capital spending is the surest sign of management’s confidence in future success. This mining firm’s spending levels augur well for future growth.
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10/26/2011: Strong Buy on Steel

This South Korean steelmaker has a number of competitive advantages over is rivals. Read More

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Battered Steel

Steel prices may be on the decline, but global demand remains robust. In the near term, pricing will be affected by general economic concerns. But demand in Asia and the rest of the developing world remains the key to global steel prices.

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Steeling the Show

This South Korean steelmaking giant rules the roost in its home market. And rising levels of self-sufficiency in metallurgical coal will make this company even stronger.

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8/31/11: A True Mining Titan

Bigger is always better in the metals and mining industry and our latest Portfolio holding is among the biggest and the best.
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