How would you like to make a pile of money on a proven investing system that out-buffets Buffett? Seriously.
I'm talking about the great investor Warren Buffett and his now famous investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway. You probably know the story already. Mr. Buffett bought a small textile company in 1965 and turned it into one of the largest investment holding companies in the world.
In 1965, Berkshire Hathaway was trading around $12 a share. Today, it trades around $119,650 a share. That's a 996,983% total return!
To be sure, it's made many investors millionaires, even billionaires.
The 'Next' Berkshire Hathaway?
But how would you like to get in on the 'next' Berkshire Hathaway? I'm talking about a "Hot List" of 10 stocks that closely follows the proven profitable strategies of Warren Buffett as well as 10 other investing gurus, such as . . .
Peter Lynch of Fidelity Magellan Fund fame. You may remember Peter's stellar performance through the 1980's at the helm of the Magellan Fund. If you had invested $10,000 when Lynch took the helm in 1977, you would have seen that small stake skyrocket to $280,000 when Lynch 'retired' in 1990!
Other investing gurus include the great contrarian David Dreman . . . Benjamin Graham, called the "father of value investing" . . . the outrageous, but extremely successful investing brothers, Tom and David Gardener of Motley Fool fame . . . just to name a few.
It's the investing dream team you can turn to. Because now, one man has studied the highly successful investing methods of all 10 gurus to combine their proven strategies into one stellar explosive consensus strategy.
His name is John Reese, editor of Forbes' Validea Hot List newsletter. In just four short years, John has managed the Hot List portfolio of 10 stocks to a whopping 149.4% total return. Compare that to the 60.3% return Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway achieved during that same time period.
Perhaps you've seen John in one of his many appearances on Wall Street Week with Fortune, or CNBC's Kudlow and Cramer . . . or read his regular column in Forbes, or read about him in Investor's Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Personal Finance, SmartMoney.com and countless other financial magazines and web sites.
In a minute, I'll tell you how you can get the names of every stock in John's Hot List portfolio. But first, let me tell you why John's 'Investing with the Dream Team' strategy is . . .
The Next Best Thing to a Crystal Ball
While nobody can know the future, the best way to outperform the market in the future is to learn from the masters who have consistently done so in the past.
Imagine, who could have known 40 years ago that Berkshire Hathaway would one day sell for $119,650 a share? Who would have predicted that the brand-new 27-year-old Magellan fund manager would increase shareholders' investments 28 times in only 13 years?
Using his artificial-intelligence skills perfected at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John developed a proprietary computer stock analysis program. He applied the past teachings of the ten great investors who have done gangbusters through bull and bear markets over the past 50 years to predict future winners.
His stock analysis program combs through 6,000 stocks every month to bring you his top 10 Hot List Stocks that most closely follows the gurus' winning investing strategies. And this one consensus strategy appears to outperform the gurus' individual investing strategies on a pretty consistent basis.
It's why John's secret guru consensus system is the next best thing to a crystal ball for predicting the big stock winners of tomorrow.
How can I say that?
Easy. Remember, the name of the game for investors is not strategies or systems or predictions. It's simply performance. And you have to see the Validea Hot List's performance for yourself!
Validea Hot List Outperforms S&P and Warren Buffett!
| Year | Validea Hot List | S&P 500 | Berkshire Hathaway |
| 2006 | 28.5% | 13.6% | 23.2% |
| 2005 | 14.5% | 3.0% | 1.0% |
| 2004 | 23.5% | 9.0% | 4.0% |
| 2003 | 56.9% | 11.1% | 15.4% |
It's one thing for a newsletter to brag about beating the S&P returns. Nearly anyone can do that. But only a rare handful of advisors can boast of beating Warren Buffett. John Reese and his readers quietly do just that.
So why not start getting the market-beating and Buffett-beating returns of the Validea Hot List into your portfolio today? The blockbuster strategies of the legendary market gurus are now made simple and easy for you with Validea Hot List. Just click here to start subscribing.
The Simplest Investing You'll Ever Do
Following John's Validea Hot List stock picks is the closest you'll ever get to hands-free, worry-free investing.
Because every two weeks you'll receive an e-mail notice alerting you as soon as the brand-new online issue of Validea Hot List is posted. Simply click on the link and you're there. No long delays in the mail, but instead, instant access.
In every issue, you'll get John's insightful and brief analysis of what's going in the economy and markets. Then he quickly gets to the Hot List.
You're given the latest news on the 10 company holdings inside the Hot List, as well as their current returns and stock prices. You're also told exactly what stocks you need to sell and what you need to buy as changes are made to Hot List portfolio.
You're never confused about what you should be invested in. Simply follow the Hot List portfolio and quietly build your fortune.
One more important thing I should mention . . . none of the stocks in Validea Hot List are high risk or speculative stocks. You're simply investing in solid companies with great financials that follow at least two players on the "Investor's Dream Team".
If you'd like to be a little more adventurous, you'll also receive John's 'Watch List'. These are the second-tier of high-scoring stocks in his secret consensus system: stocks 11-20. It's just an added bonus if you'd like to expand your winning portfolio to 20 stocks, instead of 10.
But hurry. John will be issuing the latest issue of the Validea Hot List shortly. I don't want you to miss it.
Special for you: Electing Our Next Energy System
In the world of energy and scarcity, the name of the next president will matter to us quite a bit. "People are policy," as Ronald Reagan used to say.
But then again, a lot of energy and scarcity facts defy party labels. The energy resources are out there.
They are what they are and where they are. We can exploit the resources or not. But it's not like in Star Trek. There's no "dilithium" power source out there to keep the economy running.
So for the next president and his administration, it's a question of doing something. The U.S. can always just go on importing large amounts of its energy supply. That sure has worked well for us, hasn't it?
Here at home, there's offshore oil and gas. There's onshore oil and gas. There's coal. There's uranium.
There's biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, falling water and tidal power. There are conservation and efficiency methods. And there are big choices to make.
At the end of the day, the next administration will have to decide to do something to keep the pipelines full and power lines energized. Or the pipelines and power lines will start to run down. And then the next president will have bigger problems on his hands than just deciding which of his friends to appoint as federal judges, or who gets what plum job.
What can the U.S. afford to do?
I've written before that the capital costs for energy projects have swelled in recent years. The costs for key inputs ― steel, cement, copper, aluminum, machinery, labor ― have outpaced inflation. And it won't all come to an end just because the Beijing Olympics are over. There's still a lot of concrete to pour in the Middle Kingdom.
So the world commodity boom will continue its long-term trend upward. And according to the latest data, the costs to build different kinds of power sources have increased dramatically. The relative changes are astonishing, if not sobering.
The inflationary environment in power generation capital costs has impacted all types of systems. Nuclear has increased the most, because it uses the most steel and concrete. Costs for coal systems have increased quite a bit, as well.
At the same time, the fact is that coal and nuclear generate in excess of 60 percent of the U.S. electricity supply.
And much of the installed base is between 30-40 years old, with a significant amount even older. So this installed base of power generation systems is coming to the end of its design life. What will replace it? We had better figure that out now, because it will take the next 20 years (and more) to build the next generation of power systems and plants.
On the other hand, wind power has been affected to a lesser extent by capital cost inflation. Combined cycle and gas turbine combustion still remain cheaper than wind, but wind made up a lot of ground in 2003-2004. These effects will play out over the next few years. These are things that neither the next president nor his policymakers can do anything about. They will just have to ride the wave.
And look at geothermal. It has become more expensive to build out geothermal capacity, but not that much more so. So geothermal is among the most competitive systems out there.
And on the surface, wind appears "cheaper" to build than geothermal. But that does not take into account that geothermal is far better for baseload power. That is, geothermal can supply power pretty much 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Wind, on the other hand, is limited to times when the wind blows. So it might take, say, three or four separate windmill sites to ensure 24-hour coverage, instead of one geothermal site.
We can only expect that fossil fuel costs will rise over the next few years. Really, who thinks that coal or oil will get cheaper? Rising fuel costs will further damage the economics for fossil-fired power generation, along with rising capital costs.
And despite the relative cost advantage for coal-fired power, the climate change debate is affecting the energy markets. Uncertainty about the future "carbon regime" is a key factor.
There are many questions. That is, will there be a "cap and trade" system on a national or worldwide basis? Both of the major party candidates are discussing this. And cap and trade could manifest itself in many different forms. We might see national limits on carbon emissions. Or there could be taxes on carbon. (British Columbia already has a small tax on carbon. And what happens to small taxes? Yes, of course.)
In addition, the U.S. could enter into any number of treaties that set limits on overall carbon emissions.
What will this do to U.S. industry, both domestic and international? This is no idle musing, either. Large companies like General Electric are making extensive preparations for a future of limitations on burning carbon.
Even now, we are living with the effects of the debate over climate change. The prospect of dramatic carbon regulation has already altered the economics for the coal industry. In the past two years, we have seen numerous cancellations for proposed U.S. coal plants, from Texas to Montana to Pennsylvania to North Carolina.
At the same time, renewable power systems are a fast-growing industrial sector. But renewable power systems cannot in any way meet the scale of future demand in the near to medium term. The industrial infrastructure is just not there to build large numbers of basic systems for wind, solar and even geothermal.
Anyone who says we're going to do vast amounts of renewable this or that within the next four years just does not know what he's talking about.
So you can be sure that energy efficiency and demand control (higher prices and smart metering) are key near-term responses. That is, in locales where customers are exposed to fluctuating daily power prices, demand control is more likely via higher prices. In places where customers see relatively static pricing for energy usage, we can expect to see mandatory efficiency measures gain ground.
And if the next U.S. president does not get energy right, nothing else that he does will really matter very much.
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