Holmes Osborne is a private money manager, founder of investment newsletter www.stockroyalty.com (http://www.stockroyalty.com), and writes financial articles. Holmes is host of Money Confidential on Santa Monica and Los Angeles public television and spoke this year at the Fifth Annual Value Investor Conference. He has a degree in finance from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Holmes is a member of the Pacific Council on International Relations, Malibu Rotary, Business Forum International, and formerly on the board of the LA National Association of Business Economists. Publications that his articles have appeared in include: The Motley Fool, TheStreet.com, and Quality Stocks for Women.