Contributor Profile
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Roger Conrad
Utility Forecaster.com |
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Roger Conrad is regularly featured on television, radio and at investment seminars. He has been the editor of Utility Forecaster for 10 years and is an associate editor of Personal Finance, associate editor of By George!, and is editor of Roger Conrad's Power Plays.
Mr. Conrad co-authored the books Market Timing for the Nineties and The Agile Investor with Stephen Leeb. His new book about deregulation and the future of energy services companies, Power Hungry, is now available.
Mr. Conrad is uniquely qualified to advise on income-producing equity securities. He founded the newsletter, Utility Forecaster, in 1989. During the past decade it has become the nation's leading advisory on electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water and foreign utility stocks, bonds and preferred stocks.
Utility Forecaster was named Best Financial Advisory by the Newsletter Publishers Association in 1997 and won Honorable Mention in 1999.
Mr. Conrad tracks a universe of more than 250 essential services securities, employing a rigorous five-stage methodology that includes a proprietary safety rating system and a value index that compares prospective total returns with a security's current price-to-earnings ratio.
As a member of Money Growth Institute, Mr. Conrad focuses primarily on securities that provide a combination of income and the potential for long-term capital appreciation. His work is particularly important for those whose investment objectives include current income or those who face mandatory distributions from their retirement accounts.
Conrad has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University and a Master's of International Management degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).
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