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'Jim Jubak is a Jenius!'
We suspect this reader was kidding with his spelling. But his praise for Jubak's Journal is genuine. Its backed up by the long-term results, too: Over the last seven years, Jubaks Picks have outperformed the major indexes by 2 to 1.

Jim Jubak is senior markets editor for MSN Money, and he's been a regular Tuesday and Friday habit for hundreds of thousands of investors for more than seven years now. Previously, he served as senior financial editor at Worth magazine and as editor of Venture magazine.

Jim was a Bagehot Business Journalism Fellow at Columbia University and has written two books: "The Worth Guide to Electronic Investing" and "In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines."

Blindly following the conventional wisdom will sooner or later send your portfolio tumbling over the cliff. But as an investor, I will nevertheless go with the herd when I believe there's a profit to be made. Jim Jubak

  • In addition to his twice-weekly Jubak's Journal column on MSN Moneyand his regular Wednesday stock picks on CNBCs Morning Call, Jim maintains three stock pick lists. In the intermediate term Jubak's Picks, he's constantly adding and dropping stocks from the list based his column. In its first seven years, these picks for a 12 to 18 month time frame showed a 103% return, compared with 33% for the S&P 500, 41% for the Dow Industrials, and 44% for the NASDAQ over the same period.

  • The 50 Best Stocks in the World is a portfolio designed for buy-and-hold investors looking for a chance to outperform the market with less than market risk. Every three months or so Jim singles out up to 10 of these blue-chip stocks as "buys" based on his estimate of an attractive entry price. Nearing its six anniversary, this portfolio had achieved a return of 13% compared with a 11% return for the S&P 500.

  • The Future Fantastic 50 is a more aggressive version of the "50 Best." Launched in July, 1999, this portfolio was meant to pass a simple test: If you were to look at the list in July 2004, you'd say about each entry: "Boy, I wish I'd have bought that five years ago, and I'd sure be willing to hold it for another five years." Closing in on its fifth anniversary, the Future 50 had lost 21%, compared to a loss of 27% for the NASDAQ over the same period.