Roger S. Conrad 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 is also associate editor of Personal Finance and co-editor of, a subscription-based service that seeks opportunities for equity investors in the natural resource markets across the world. His latest endeavor, MLP Profits, 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.

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