Albert Edwards

With the stock market unsteady, don't overlook the value of adding bonds to your portfolio. They provide income and are more reliable than equities.

Indeed, bonds have had a strong run up in the past decade - so strong, in fact, that many investors are afraid they've entered bubble territory. But not Albert Edwards, chief strategist at the old-school French bank Societe Generale SA (PINK: SCGLY).

Edwards isn't your typical white-shoe analyst. Guys in his position tend to have a perpetually optimistic worldview. Since they are in the business of selling the dream, they need to talk up assets. But Edwards is an iconoclast who is known as one of the dourer professional forecasters.