Roger Conrad

• Metals: When Headwinds Become Tailwinds

  By Roger Conrad  |  December 7, 2012

  The metals and mining industry is highly cyclical and fiercely competitive, given to periodic overcapacity and sharp fluctuations demand. Global economic conditions have provided a major headwind for this sector but long-term prospects are still attractive.

• An Ideal Way to Play the Fed's Loose Money Policies

  By Roger Conrad  |  October 16, 2012

  Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) has endured a choppy stock market ride since May. And not surprisingly, its performance tracks price volatility of the red and yellow metals, its primary products.

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  Investing in a Time of Rising Resource Nationalism

  By Roger Conrad  |  September 7, 2012

  A way investors can protect themselves is to stick to large, geographically diversified resource producers. Or focus on companies that get the majority of output from more politically stable countries where the odds of resource nationalism taking hold are lower.

• Solid Pipeline of Growth Opportunities for Mid-Con Energy

  By Roger Conrad  |  June 21, 2012

  Mid-Con Energy Partners specializes in water-flooding, an enhanced recovery technique that involves injecting large volumes of water into a mature field to restore well pressure and bolster output.

• Millionaire's Choice

  By Roger Conrad  |  January 23, 2007

  Remember when investors could retire and live well on a modest nest egg?