Get investment articles, videos, commentary and more surrounding the topic of best investment ideas and picks to consider adding to your portfolio. Increased investor inflows and portfolio reshuffling (driven in part by a fairly valued market), has added breadth to the high-conviction and new-money purchases we've seen so far from our top managers. Morningstar's director of equity research Pat Dorsey swaps his fund recommendations with senior fund analyst Mike Breen's stock picks.<br/><br/><b>[0:01:02]</b> ... get lost in the weeds worked really well. And some of my <b>best</b> <b>picks</b> were done that way where, ironically, we were just trying to avoid losses and concentrate on avoiding the downside as opposed to ... <br/><b>[0:01:38]</b> ... radar as a high-quality name that you think is selling at a <b>fair</b> <b>price</b>? Breen : I actually own it already. ... It's got lot of attributes that we look at when analyzing fund portfolios. In our software you can put column sets of fundamentals across free cash flow yield, P/E, net margin, ROA, and at sort of an absolute level debt-to-capital that I'd like to see, on a stock I would buy. And I noticed in looking at portfolios of fund managers that it was hitting on all of them at extremely good levels, on <b>fair</b> <b>price</b>, lots of free cash flow, no debt. So a very defensive, safe pick kind of in that Anheuser-Busch mode from a couple ... <br/><b>[0:04:35]</b> ... oftentimes, although we do focus a lot on quality companies, what we call <b>wide</b>-<b>moat</b> businesses at Morningstar, a lot of times you can get some of your biggest pops in terms of future growth in cash ... <br/> Miss any of Morningstar's Ideas Week? See the whole lineup, including our most popular articles and videos. Interest in Apple is heating up as the price falls, but how deep is the conviction? Morningstar StockInvestor editor Matt Coffina offers some of his new investment ideas following a quarterly rebalancing of the Wide Moat Focus Index. Get our sector-by-sector take on the bond market, plus our five best bond ideas. Dec. 6-10, 2010. We saw a higher level of trading by our top managers in the most recent period. Morningstar's Brian Nelson reviews the performance of our corporate credit ratings on their one-year anniversary of their launch, plus two health-care bond picks.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:21]</b> ... ratings have performed over the last year and also with a few <b>bond</b> <b>picks</b>. Brian, Julie, thanks for talking with me today. Julie Stralow : Thanks for having us. Brian Nelson : Thanks. Glaser : So, ... <br/><b>[0:02:28]</b> ... rolled out a Credit Weekly piece for institutional investors and also a <b>Best</b> <b>Ideas</b> list. Glaser : Now, how have these ratings performed? Really it sounds great, but the proof is in the pudding. How has ... <br/><b>[0:04:17]</b> ... our methodology and the Issuer Credit Rating provides the bedrock for our <b>investment</b> <b>ideas</b>. Glaser : Now, Julie, one of the places that we've really had a disconnect between where we put our ratings and where ... <br/><b>[0:05:03]</b> ... have a chance to develop a moat. So, some of our very <b>wide</b> <b>moat</b> companies are skewing a bit higher than the rating agencies have them because we think they sometimes use sales size as a proxy of business quality, while we rely on the moat. Glaser : So it's a good way our competitive advantage analysis really gives us a leg up on the credit analysis as well. Are there any particular <b>bond</b> <b>picks</b> that you think look attractive right now? Stralow : Yeah, I think two outstanding issues right now could be interesting bond plays, ... <br/> Day 2: Morningstar's Christine Benz taps Morningstar experts for top picks for funding an IRA before the April 15 deadline.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:12]</b> ... week I'm talking to some of Morningstar's investment experts to get their <b>best</b> <b>ideas</b> for funding an IRA. I'm here today with Scott Burns. Scott is director of exchange-traded fund research for Morningstar. Scott, thanks for ... <br/>