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TOP GROWTH MANAGER ALEX UMANSKY FOCUSES ON BIG IDEA COMPANIES DISRUPTING INDUSTRIES GLOBALLY

When you are hot you’re hot and this week’s WEALTHTRACK guest has been on a tear since launching his Baron Global Advantage Fund in 2012. Alex Umansky is new to WEALTHTRACK but he is a seasoned investor with an outstanding track record.
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ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT FROM THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING CORONAVIRUS STORY

NEW THIS WEEK… CORONAVIRUS IMPACT UPDATE
Ed Hyman and his top-ranked economic team are tracking the evolving Coronavirus story daily as its impact widens and becomes more known. They have shared two of this week’s reports to clients with us. One, their 1/27/20 Morning Economic Report examining the global economic implications and what happened to the U.S. during the 2003 SARS epidemic, the last major epidemic originating in China. The other report from Evercore ISI’s long-time China expert Don Straszheim focuses on the fallout in China.
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POSITIVE 2020 OUTLOOK FOR US ECONOMY SAYS WALL STREET’S #1 ECONOMIST ED HYMAN

Every year at this time we are delighted to welcome Wall Street’s long reigning number one economist, Ed Hyman to share his outlook with us.  And we always pair him with a leading portfolio manager with a global investment view. For the fourth year in a row our choice is First Eagle’s Matthew McLennan.
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IS CORPORATE AMERICA’S FOCUS ON PROFITS THE PROBLEM WITH CAPITALISM? TWO ENTREPRENEURS RESPOND

Do corporations need a new purpose? Does the free enterprise capitalist system need a major overhaul or a tune-up?

We have two guests with strong views on the topic. Ken Langone is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Invented Associates. He is Co-Founder of the Home Depot where he was Lead Director and a member of the executive committee of its board from its founding in 1978 until 2008. He is a noted philanthropist and the author of I Love Capitalism!: An American Story.

He is joined By David Gardner, the Co-Founder, and Co-Chairman of The Motley Fool, a global online investing service launched with his brother Tom in 1993. Motley Fool’s purpose is to make the world smarter, happier and richer by helping individuals become better investors.

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