Forbes Guru Picks and Pans for 2008-2009 Friday, August 8 • 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Whatever your investing style—from small-caps, emerging tech stocks, and international markets to options, ETFs and yield investments—Forbes’ team of expert advisors will guide you with strategies and picks to set your portfolio on a path to profits. Join Forbes’ select top-performing editors in this lively investor discussion of how to make the most of the current financial markets. Each panelist will offer their recommendations for must-own and must-sell, stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds for the rest of the year and beyond. Matthew Schifrin (Moderator) Janet Brown John Buckingham Marilyn Cohen John Christy Ken Kam James Stack Recession-Proof Your Portfolio! Profit from the Market’s Turbulence with My Ten Fundamental Favorites The US economy may be teetering on the brink of a recession, but according to Louis Navellier, editor, Blue Chip Growth, Quantum Growth, Global Growth, and Emerging Growth, there’s no reason why you can’t profit from the turmoil. Join this renowned growth investor and learn his ten favorite plays for the current market. Profit from Winning ETFs Using the NoLoad Fund*X Proven Upgrading Strategy According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, Janet Brown, editor, NoLoad Fund*X, has the top-performing newsletter on a risk-adjusted basis for the 27.5 years ending December 2007. Her portfolio of the world’s top-performing no-load mutual funds has also outperformed the Wilshire 5000 for two consecutive decades. Find out the secrets she has used to outperform the markets over a 20-year period! The Top Ten Home Run Stocks You Should Buy Now Saturday, August 9 • 10:45 am – 11:30 am This panel is always a crowd favorite! Come to this entertaining panel discussion to learn where you should invest your money right now. Be sure to bring your pencils as these highly regarded financial experts—Mark Skousen, Doug Fabian, and Nicholas Vardy—each reveal their top home-run stocks and ETFs that will bring you maximum profits. Mark Skousen Doug Fabian Nicholas Vardy Big-Gain Hunting Saturday, August 9 • 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm This is a search for stocks that look poised to double in price over the next three to five years. Such gains are hardly ordinary. The broad market has historically returned about 10% a year over long time periods. We’re looking for stocks that appear capable of returning 15% to 25% for a while. What do such companies look like? What’s the best way to find them? Should we favor young growers, mature companies with depressed share prices, or a mix of the two? Our market experts will answer each of these questions and more, while being pressed for their top stock picks by moderator Jack Hough, associate editor, SmartMoney.com, and author of Your Next Great Stock. Ride the Great Global Wealth Waves of 2009 Trillions in new wealth will come to those riding the great global waves of transformational change raging worldwide. From the rapidly growing green energy revolution to the multi-trillion dollar HealthCare 2.0 transformation to the China/India Middle Class miracle and the great convergence of wireless voice, entertainment, and data broadband, Tobin Smith, founder and chairman of ChangeWave Research LLC, and senior market analyst FOX Business Channel and FOX News, will show you the most profitable waves to ride and best companies leading the way. New Recommendations for No-Load Hedge, Fundamentally Weighted Index, and Dividend Paying Funds and Alternative Investments According to the May 2007 issue of The Hulbert Financial Digest, The No-Load Fund Investor had the second-best, risk-adjusted performance of all mutual fund-oriented investment advisories over the past 15 years and the third highest risk-adjusted return over the past five years. Contributing editor Sheldon Jacobs will take you through the tumultuous market environment of 2008 to show where to find the right moves.   MSN Money’s Strategy Lab: Best Stocks to Close Out 2008 Friday, August 8 • 10:45 am – 11:30 am The best stocks for the rest of a difficult year? For ten years now, a rotating panel of top money experts playing MSN Money’s Strategy Lab portfolio competition have consistently doubled the market’s return. A panel of players from the current round of the game will focus on the stocks working for them right now — and zero in on their best picks for the road ahead. Past players have included many Money Show alums, like Ken Kam, Kelley Wright, Bob Walberg, Tobin Smith, and Nick Vardy. What I Am Investing in Now Friday, August 8 • 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm Interested in doubling, or even tripling, your money with the fastest growing companies? How about earning steady income with a level of risk that still allows you to sleep at night? Perhaps the built-in diversification of some ETFs is more your speed? Whether it’s small-cap stocks, emerging market ETFs, or master limited partnerships that put the glitter in your eye, it doesn’t matter. Each of these renowned experts will share where they are investing now, what they think the markets are missing out on, and how you can take advantage of the opportunities—before the rest of the market does. John Dessauer Robert Hsu Michael Murphy Louis Navellier Georges Yared BioDreams: Speculating in Biotech This session is for those interested in the biotech stocks that are potential grand slams, the $2-stock that could be $80 with success in trials and with the FDA. Michael Shulman, editor, ChangeWave Biotech Investor and ChangeWave Shorts, will discuss specific technologies, products, and companies and why he thinks they succeed or fail to meet investors’ expectations. This session will be highly interactive and attendees should come prepared with questions about their favorite potential grand slams. 11 Tech Winners for the Next 11 Months The last leg up in a bull market is usually the most rewarding, and you need to be in these stocks to bank big profits over the next 11 months. From biotech to WiMAX, Michael Murphy, editor, New World Investor, says the opportunities are there—and a few can be held for many years to come. The Best Stocks Money Can Buy Friday, August 8 • 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm With instability the name of the game, many investors are craving stocks they can depend on. Of course, there’s no such thing as a sure thing, but KCI Communications’ veteran editors will divulge the picks they think are the next best thing. Backed by premium research, the KCI editors have also found sectors and investment tools that are bound to thrive in the election year. This fast-paced panel will be chock-full of valuable insights from the editors’ varying perspectives and expertise. Roger Conrad Gregg Early Neil George Elliott Gue Risk Is Back...Where Are Returns? Now that financial markets are pricing risk more appropriately, investors can shift through the aftermath to find excellent opportunities in both stocks and bonds. Joe Battipaglia, market strategist-Private Client Group, Stifel Nicolaus, will analyze large-cap vs. small; value vs. growth; and developed vs. emerging among the choices in this session. Learn the Traits That Leading Stocks Share Before They Make Their Big Price Moves Ted Leplat, national speaker, Investor’s Business Daily, will teach you how to spot the real leaders in their early emerging stages and discover companies that aren’t on most radar screens yet. He’ll also discuss how to recognize shifts in the market while there is still time to act and how to find the optimal time to move into stocks within the best sectors and industry groups.