The Editors at KCIINVESTING.COM have a proven track record over high seas and waterways. There's no better way to mix business and pleasure than on a luxury cruise with a crew of wise men to calmly lay out your investing options. Their bios make a good read:

Roger S. Conrad

Utilities Markets Analysis and Canadian Trusts

Roger Conrad has devoted 25 years of his professional investing life to finding safe and solid investments that give investors the best of both worlds: the rush of capital growth and the juggernaut compounding power of non-stop income and dividends.

He answers his own phone. Replies to all his emails. Takes time with investors, whether or not they’re subscribers to Utility Forecaster, and makes sure their questions are fully answered.

In other words, he’s a guy you’d want as a friend, and nothing like what you’d picture of the man described by the nation’s foremost dividend investing expert as “almost always right.”

Lowell Miller, manager of a billion-dollar fund and author of one of the best investing books ever written, The Single Best Investment, is a tough critic, saying, “I don’t think much of newsletters in general; many of their writers don’t seem to be qualified to hold a regular job, much less give investment advice!  But Utility Forecaster is written by a hard-working, independent thinker who makes my job easier.”

Which is exactly what Roger sets out to do — make every investor’s job easier. And not just your job, but your life too.

Out of the thousands of newsletter Hulbert Digest follows, Mark Hulbert listed Roger Conrad's Utility Forecaster on the 2010 Newsletter Honor Roll for having above average returns in both up and down markets.

 And, think how much easier your life would be with returns of 12.8% a year, year after year.

Subscriber Gisela Connelly calls Roger her “guiding light.”

Chuck Beeler says, “I have always appreciated your wisdom. I have taken your advice over seven years now and it did help me tremendously taking care of my mom…. My mom received the best of care and I couldn’t of done it without your help…. I just wanted to let you know how much you helped my mom.”

Barbara Mayers Keller says, “You have so much good information and knowledge and it is incredible that you can find the time to answer so many people’s questions! You are amazing and I am so very grateful.”

And Charles Ego says, “You are my friend for life.”

"Roger Conrad is one of the few PROFESSIONAL investment grade advisors in North America, and possibly well beyond these shores." John D. MachLachlan

I just renewed...  Keep that good information coming.  You've made me money this year.  Happy New Year-- Jim Heslin, 2009

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Roger S. Conrad has produced market-beating gains along with a relaxed approach to wealth building that has proven irresistible to thousands of unstressed investors. His concisely presented lectures are always voted among the best-of-seminar, whether the competition is just his own colleagues at KCI-exclusive events or numbering in the hundreds, during his many appearances at financial mega-seminars around the world.

As founder and editor of KCI’s award-winning 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 detailed research and studied insights into utilities markets also elevate Vital Resource Investor, where he is co-editor with Yiannis Mostrous, and Personal Finance, where is serves as associate editor.

He brings the same intelligence and method to bear on Roger Conrad’s Canadian Edge, an Internet-based publication devoted to uncovering lucrative investment opportunities in Canadian royalty trusts. Roger’s exhaustive coverage of how recent changes to Canada’s tax laws will affect these companies has earned him a reputation as one of the leading authorities on Canadian trusts.

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.

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Gregg S. Early

Personal Finance and New Technology/Nanotechnology Market Analysis

Gregg Early is vice-president of KCI Communications and executive editor of the company’s flagship publication, Personal Finance. Over the past decade, he has helped build the newsletter’s reputation as a trusted source for penetrating market analysis and investment advice. He also oversees the editorial department’s other award-winning publications.

In addition to his commitment to full portfolio management, Gregg has spearheaded KCI’s forefront position in the niche markets of nanotechnology and the frontiers of new technology, which range among high-temperature superconducting, alternative energy, intelligence infrastructure, the constant advances in the nanotech and biotech sectors, and beyond. Gregg produces The Real Nanotech Investor, one of the very few financial advisories that focuses on how individual investors can capitalize on innovations in nanotech and disruptive technologies. His free e-zine, New Tech Investor, keeps readers updated on the latest advances and developments in nascent technology sectors and the opportunities therein.

Gregg has found that following his broader interests in life almost always open doors to investment – and he strongly encourages others to make the same cross-overs. He practices what he preaches: in addition to finance, Gregg’s journalistic assignments have included health care, gastronomy and education, and he is a trained chef, a published poet and playwright…and a scratch golfer.

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Elliott H. Gue

Global Energy and Technology Market Analysis

Meet Mr. Energy —

You may have seen Elliott Gue on ABC-TV, or heard him on CBS radio.  Or, maybe you heard him report from the G-8 Summit in Japan where he was tapped to provide the global outlook for alternative energy for the Summit's official treatise.

As former editor of Wall Street Winners, Elliott Gue proved himself in the roughest investment terrain in recent memory. Over a five-year period, including the vicious bear market of 2000-02, he made 18.2% profit a year for anyone following that broad-spectrum publication, while the S&P 500 lost 7.8% a year!

This triumph earned him the #1 ranking among the 121 investment advisories rated by The Hulbert Financial Digest.  More important, he established a worldwide reputation as one who refuses to follow the herd over a cliff.

He founded The Energy Society and its main publication, The Energy Strategist, out of frustration with the short-sighted and spotty advice available to higher-level investors.  He felt that mid-range investors were being served adequately by Personal Finance, which he also serves as editor, but by late 2004 he was seeing the glaring lack of an in-depth array of services covering the entire energy field.  Thus he launched the Strategist and, later, the Society itself.

Mr. Gue (pronounced as in argue) earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Finance degrees at the prestigious University of London, graduating in the top three per cent of his class.

In 2006, he co-authored On the Silk Road to Riches: Discovering Wealth in a Changing World (Prentice Hall).  He is now a popular speaker on the investment conference circuit.

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Elliott H. Gue brings a unique international perspective to the table. The first American to complete both the bachelors (Economics/Management) and masters (Finance) at the University of London, the UK’s highest-rated business school, Elliott has made understanding and profiting from the complexities of global energy markets and related industries his life’s work.

From traditional fuels like coal and crude oil to the latest alternative energy sources, Elliott’s semimonthly newsletter, The Energy Strategist, unearths the most profitable opportunities in this booming sector and outlines the interrelated economic and geopolitical forces that drive these markets. He also coauthored with fellow KCI editor Yiannis Mostrous the book, The Silk Road to Riches: How You Can Profit by Investing in Asia’s Newfound Prosperity on investment opportunities in Asia.

Mr. Gue is editor of KCI’s flagship publication, Personal Finance, contributing his knowledge of global energy markets, technology and sector investing. He also produces KCI’s free e-newsletters, The Energy Letter, which provides regular updates on energy market conditions; and Trader’s Talk, which informs readers of investment opportunities using technical analysis.

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Yiannis G. Mostrous

International Market Analysis and Venture Financing.

Yiannis G. Mostrous believes that travel is a prerequisite to expertise in identifying investment opportunities abroad, and his authority in shedding light on emerging and overlooked markets stems partly from his fulfillment of that commitment – to makes tracks to all corners of the world on a regular basis. But nowhere is Yiannis more at home…than in his native Greece. He and his Greek colleagues have been instrumental in preparing the way for our Five-Star Investment Conversations among the Isles of Greece.

Before joining KCI, Yiannis worked at Artemel International as an analyst to promote business development in the Mediterranean; at Finance & Investment Associates as a start up company analyst in their venture capital division; as a consultant for the Athens, Greece, brokerage firm Intersec Securities, as a primary researcher.

Since joining KCI, he has been editor of the financial advisory, The Silk Road Investor, which identifies the most current and most profitable facets of emerging global economies from China to India, but always in the context of the broader historical and political conditions that touch every investment along this ancient trading route. In addition, Yiannis is co-editor with Roger Conrad of the subscription-based service, Vital  Resource Investor, focused on seeking opportunities for equity investors in the global natural resource markets. Through these two publications, and his free weekly e-zine, Emerging Markets Speculator, Yiannis offers individual investors clear paths to internationalize their portfolios. He is coauthor with fellow KCI Editor Elliott Gue of the book, The Silk Road to Riches: How You Can Profit by Investing in Asia’s Newfound Prosperity.