Commenting on the recognition, Executive Publisher Addison Wiggin said, “The numbers speak for themselves. Over a 10-year period, the Wilshire 5000 recognized an annualized gain of 2.3 %. Outstanding Investments recommendations showed an annualized gain of 21.7%.”

Outstanding Investments editor Byron King, added, “My goal has always been to share with my 50,000+ paid subscribers, good solid investment ideas in companies that pursue energy and mineral development. This ranking by the prestigious Hulbert Financial Digest is humbling and makes me want to work even harder.”

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Agora Financial, LLC, is a Baltimore-based publisher of over a dozen financial and investment advisory newsletters, including Capital & Crisis, Energy & Scarcity Investor, Penny Stock Fortunes, Resource Trader Alert and Strategic Short Report. The editors of these publications have been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, and many other major media outlets for their honest, unconventional, and unbiased independent financial research.