I hope you enjoy this video of WBND Chris Rees. Chris has had an average annual return of about 25% for the last decade. He is a concentrated deep value investor who only holds 10 stocks in his portfolio. His investing mantra, “don’t lose money” is similar to Warren Buffett’s. Chris likes to buy stocks selling at a fraction of their tangible book value. His life story, which I tell in my book, is fascinating. After a horrific childhood, he spent 30 years of his life as a hippie-vagabond traveling to over 30 countries, living week to week. He was a tailor in Afghanistan and an Ecotour operator in Belize. He once won a Cadillac in a poker game on an Indian reservation in California. It all contributed to a life education that helped shape him as an investor.

Unlike most of the other great investors in my book, John Navin is a card carrying technical analyst and swing trader. I call him a Bear Market Hero in the book because one of his claims to fame is that charting helped him avoid the devastating Bear Market of 2008. Over the long term John has use Elliott Wave Theory and other technical methods to produce superior returns. John is a passionate investor who got his start learning value investing from The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham. John is also an avid Black Jack player who once supplemented his income as a disc jockey in Las Vegas by counting cards at casinos. You can find out more on John, including his strategies, in my book, The Warren Buffetts Next Door Click http://bit.ly/buffettbook

Here is a short video from Alan Hill, another Warren Buffett Next Door featured in my book. Alan is living a dream retirement in New Mexico because he is a smart dedicated investor. He is making more money now than he ever did during his career as an executive. Alan describes himself as a great “listener,” and as such his strategy involves listening to smart people he finds on various online message boards like ValueForum.com. His current strategy mixes safer high yielding investments with riskier Chinese micro-cap stocks. Alan is also a big believer in Roth IRA’s as the best place for investment portfolios and I detail how he fits this into his investment strategy in my book.

In my book, The Warren Buffetts Next Door, I call Kai The Scorcerer’s Apprentice because he has managed to become a master investor working as the manager of a computer lab at a prestigious business school. Kai has no fancy degrees but rather he is a self-taught quant, who has developed his own winning stock screening formula incorporating the theories he has learned on the job. Like a magpie, Kai has cobbled his strategy together listening and learning from others. He has nine portfolios on Marketocracy.com, and as of March 31, 2010 every single one had long term performance records better than their relevant benchmark indexes. In this video he recently filmed near his home town of Sault Ste. Marie Kai explains his approach.

Date of Birth: January 4, 1965

Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Employment: Former stockbroker, currently investing full-time

Passions/Pursuits: Comic book collecting, cycling and his three dogs

Investment Strategy: Value with a global macro twist, “Warren Buffett meets John Templeton.”

Key Strategy Metric: Enterprise value/Ebitda

Performance Since July 2000 : Average annual return of 19 percent versus 0.70 percent for the S&P 500*

More information on Randy McDuff’s investment strategies can be found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door.

*as of March 31,2010, for an update visit Marketocracy.com

Date of Birth: April 10, 1959

Hometown: Sacramento, CA

Employment: Civil engineer, waste management and recycling

Passions/Pursuits: Whitewater rafting, ballroom dancing

Investment Strategy: Turnarounds and other special situations

Key Strategy Metric: Intrinsic value

Performance Since February 2001: Average annual return 34 percent versus 1 percent for S&P 500*

More information on Mike Koza’s investment strategies can be found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door.

*as of March 31,2010, for an update visit Marketocracy.com

Date of Birth: September 26, 1974

Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI

Employment: Computer lab manager

Passions/Pursuits: National parks, photography, hot saunas

Investment Strategy: Eclectic mix of leading academic quantitative theories

Key Strategy Metric: The F-Score

Performance Since March 2003: Average annual return of 17 percent versus 7 percent for the S&P 500.*

More information on Kai Petainen investment strategies can be found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door.

*as of March 31,2010, for an update visit Marketocracy.com

Date of Birth: April 26, 1954

Hometown: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Employment: Full-time investor

Passions/Pursuits: Fishing, tennis, and history.

Investment Strategy: Junior gold stocks, oil, gas, hard assets

Key Metric: Cash flow

Performance Since September 2004: Cumulative return of 237 percent versus 11 percent for the S&P 500*

More information on Andrew Swann’s investment strategies can be found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door.

*Stock contest results as of March 31,2010, for more visit ValueForum.com

Date of Birth: February 13, 1970

Hometown: Elk Grove, CA

Employment: engineer, state of California

Passions/Pursuits: Fishing, Sacramento Kings

Investment Strategy: Active trend trading

Key Metric: Percentage Gainers, relative strength

Performance Since January 2003: Average annual return of 33 percent versus 6 percent for the S&P 500*

More information on Justin Uyehara’s investment strategies can be found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door.

*as of March 31,2010, for an update visit Marketocracy.com