Roger S. Conrad
The Editor
Roger S. Conrad
Roger S. Conrad is editor of Utility Forecaster, the nation’s leading advisory on essential services stocks, bonds and preferred stocks. He is also editor of Big Yield Hunting, associate editor of Personal Finance and co-editor of MLP Profits, an online newsletter that takes the guesswork out of identifying high-growth, high-yield partnerships through studied advice and sound market intelligence. 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 co-author of The Agile Investor and Market Timing for the Nineties with Stephen Leeb.
Utility Forecaster
Roger Conrad founded the Utility Forecaster newsletter in 1989. He tracks a 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. Subscribers to the Utility Forecaster receive monthly issues of the newsletter, access to UtilityForecaster.com, as well as special publications such as 5 Bounce-Back Stocks and The Top 200 and Why They're Hot. In May 2011, the Hulbert Financial Digest ranked Roger Conrad's Utility Forecaster as #2 among 147 financial newsletters tracked, in terms of five-year risk adjusted performance.