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. 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.

 

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.

Content Posted by Roger S. Conrad

The Recovery: Watch Your Expectations

A positive earnings season for essential-service companies is underway, and economic data are showing new signs of strength. This means it’s time to be wary.

Stay Invested

The electoral calendar could play havoc with US markets this year, but investors already invested--and those poised to establish positions--in high-quality essential-service stocks will profit in the long run.

Buckeye Partners LP

Buckeye Partners LP (NYSE: BPL) boosted its distribution 5.1 percent in 2011, but the unit price declined about 4 percent over the same 12 months. Better distribution coverage and decent growth potential suggest this inefficiency will be reconciled in 2012.

Washington Calling

Politics will play a seemingly outsized role in this presidential election year.

AT&T

Its attempt to rescue Deutsche Telekom AG's (Germany: DTE, OTC: DTEGY) languishing T-Mobile USA business was not successful, but this company will remain one of two key players in what is perhaps America's most dynamic industry.

Smaller in Alaska

Alaska Communications (NSDQ: ALSK) has reduced its dividend by about 77 percent.

Dealing with Volatility

Portfolio Rules helped us to a double-digit overall return for 2011. The same discipline seems destined to support similar results in 2012.

Profits and Perils from the Gas Plunge

The price of natural gas is on a steep, steady decline. Here's how to play it.

Momentum Investing and Dividends: A Bad Match

“Momentum” and “dividends” are two words seldom seen together in the same rational sentence.

Partners in Profits

Growth and income, reliable and long-term: That’s what MLPs offer investors.