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Kennametal Inc. (NYSE:KMT) announced that Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Frank P. Simpkins will meet with various members of the financial community in Dallas on May 3 and select cities in New Jersey on May 4-5, 2011. In addition, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Carlos M. Cardoso will meet with various members of the financial community on May 11, 2011, at the Wells Fargo Industrial & Construction Conference in New York City. The presentation slides will be available on the company’s website, www.kennametal.com.
Materion Corporation, a materials solutions company, engages in the production and supply of high-performance engineered materials in the United States and internationally.
National Health Partners, Inc. (NHPR)

Expensive healthcare has become a big issue now days in USA. Over 60% of adults ages 50 to 64 that are working (or have a working spouse) have been diagnosed with at least one chronic health condition, such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund. The one-fifth of older workers and their spouses 7 million Americans either have no healthcare insurance or have been uninsured at some time since age 50. The raises alarms about the ability of the U.S. healthcare system to cope with the future healthcare needs of aging low and middle income baby boomers, who face:
1) Increasing healthcare issues.
2) Unstable healthcare insurance coverage.
3) High medical costs.
4) Debt problems.
National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings network called “CARExpress.” CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and is comprised of over! 1,000,0 00 medical professionals that belong to such PPOs as CareMark and Aetna.
National Health Partners, Inc.’s shares are publicly traded on the OTCBB under the ticker symbol NHPR.OB.
National Health Partners, Inc. recently announced that it has signed a new agreement with a major marketing company that will significantly enhance the growth of its CARExpress membership base.
According to the Company, this deal, in combination with the previous partnership with Xpress Healthcare, will enable the company to build its membership base exponentially, initially generating in excess of an additional 2,000 new members per month. The new campaign is set to launch within the next few weeks and will provide a material positive impact on the company’s 2nd quarter sales.
National Health Partners anticipate that this new marketing agreement will provide a major impact on their overall sales not only for the 2nd quarter, but more importantly for the year. They look forward to building on the profits that they anticipate generating in 2011 that will be driven by substantial growth in sales of their CARExpress health discount programs. The combination of their substantial growth with their low price-to-equity ratio should reflect itself in the price of their stock over the coming months.
For more information about National Health Partners, Inc visit its website www.nationalhealthpartners.com
Global Hunter Corp. (BOB.V)

Molybdenum is alloyed with steel making it stronger and more highly resistant to heat because molybdenum has such a high melting temperature. The alloys are used to make such things as rifle barrels and filaments for light bulbs. The iron and steel industries account for more than 75% of molybdenum consumption.
Global Hunter Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Canada and Chile. It primarily explores for gold, copper, and base ! and prec ious metals. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Other major uses as an alloy include: Tool steels, for things like bearings, dies, machining components; cast irons, for steel mill rolls, auto parts, crusher parts; super alloys for use in furnace parts, gas turbine parts, and chemical processing equipment.
General uses for molybdenum are in machinery (35%), for electrical applications (15%), in transportation (15%), in chemicals (10%), in the oil and gas industry (10%), and assorted others (15%).
Global Hunter Corp. is currently listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX.V: BOB) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE: G5D).
Global Hunter Corp. announced that it recently completed a surface sampling program at La Corona de Cobre. The program was designed to collect surface samples from the numerous prospective shear zones. This would aid in the definition of drill targets to expand on the copper oxide mineralization. The company has collected approximately 250 samples from the shear zones listed below.
The shear zones and areas of alteration that have been sampled (from East to West) include the following zones:
- El Manto.
- La Golondrina.
- Cerro Borracho.
- El Tazon.
- La Copa.
- La Varrilla.
- Et Tazon.
- Vino Fino.
- Abisinia.
The samples will be collected from outcrops along the entire strike lengths of the shears and have been shipped to ALS Chemex Labs in La Serena Chile for analysis.
For more information about Global Hunter Corp please visit http://www.globalhunter.ca
Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE:KRC) announced that it has closed on its public offering of 6,037,500 shares at a price of $38.25 per share, which includes 787,500 shares sold to the underwriters upon the exercise of their overallotment option. The deal was upsized from the originally announced 4,500,000 shares (plus 675,000 shares subject to the underwrite! rs’ ; overallotment option). Net proceeds from the offering were approximately $221.2 million. Additional details related to this offering, including the company’s use of proceeds, may be found in the prospectus supplement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2011.
Kilroy Realty Corporation is a privately owned real estate investment trust. The firm engages in investment, development, and management of properties. It invests in the real estate markets of Southern California.
Sovran Self Storage, Inc., (NYSE:SSS) will issue financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 after the market closes on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. The Company will conduct a conference call to review financial results and discuss operations on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To access the conference call, dial 877.407.8033 (domestic), or 201.689.8033 (international), at least five minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. Management will accept questions from registered financial analysts after prepared remarks; all others are encouraged to listen to the call via webcast at www.unclebobs.com/company/investment/events.
Sovran Self Storage, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equity REIT that is in the business of acquiring and managing self storage facilities.

Best China Stocks 2012 - The Retirement Rule of Thumb

When in doubt, resort to the rule of thumb.
It isn’t the ideal way to make investment choices, but it is, unfortunately, what most people on the verge of retirement do, says Alessandro Previtero, an assistant professor of finance at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Previtero’s research has shown that when faced with the choice between a lump sum and an annuity, individuals typically base their decision on stock market returns, and will more often than not opt for a lump sum if stock market returns have been good for the period preceding their retirement.
What’s most worrying for Previtero is that the relationship between stock market returns and annuities grows stronger with age, thereby indicting that older people tend to rely more on rules of thumb to make complicated decisions as they age. This is something, he says, that advisors have to take into account when they’re discussing lump sums versus annuities with their clients.
“If we try to put this into practice, an advisor needs to be very sensitive about stock market performance, and they have to speak openly with their clients about why they’re choosing to invest in equities, whether they’re choosing to do so because it is the right thing to do or because they see that the equity market is coming out of a positive trend,” Previtero says. “It’s very important for advisors to see what’s driving clients to choose lump sum or equities and to understand their underlying behavior. It’s even more important for advisors to pay attention to behavioral biases and potential mistakes that investors may make because if someone has made the wrong decision based on a rule of thumb, it can also mean that the relationship they have with their advisor can potentially sour.”
Granted, annuities are a complex beast, difficult to explain and understand, even in recent years, when there’s been a concerted effort by the retirement finance industry to shed greater light on them and clear them of their tainted past. Annuities experts believe that the evolution of the industry will engender different kinds of products that would allow retirees to take advantage of stock market upside, and that they would be more readily available in retirement plans.
Nevertheless, it is still important for advisors to have the dialog with their clients as to why or why not to choose an annuity, says Jeffrey Brown, William G. Karnes professor in the department of finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Center for Business and Public Policy in the College of Business. The conversation, he says, has to begin with what a client wants in their retirement and introducing in that context the idea of guaranteed lifetime income.
Brown and other academics like Julie Agnew, associate professor of economics and finances at the College of William and Mary, have done extensive work in the area of framing, an approach that can perhaps help advisors give better direction to the annuities conversation and enable both themselves and their clients to better understand the reasons why they should or shouldn’t invest in annuities.
Brown conducted a survey in which he first presented annuities as an investment choice, the classic way in which they are almost always presented. He then changed things around by reframing annuities in a consumption-related framework.
“In half the sample, we described the product – which we didn’t name – by using terms like ‘investment’ and ‘returns,’ and in the other scenario, we talked about the amount of income that this product would yield,” Brown says. “In the first context, people thought annuities were inferior and only 20% said the product was a better choice compared to savings account. In the second scenario, though, after simply changing the terms of the discussion to words like ‘consume,’ ‘spend’ and so forth, 70% of the people in the survey preferred the annuity.”
The subtle change in wording, which resulted in people looking at annuities in terms of what they want to consume and spend in retirement, led to a total change in mindset.
“We’re doing more research on consumption-related frameworks because we think that if we take this a little further, we’d be part of a much-needed and fundamental rethinking in how we talk about retirement planning,” Brown says.
Framing the retirement conversationin a consumption-related context also leads onto other very important issues, such as inflation, long-term care, and whatever else people might need to maintain their standard of living. These elements are all part of a different conversation from the one that focuses on maximizing wealth, Brown says, and within that context advisors can help their clients to better see the benefits and downsides of the options they have, including whether to put their money in the stock market or in annuities, and to perhaps go beyond resorting to simple rules of thumb.