Ed Hyman and Bob Doll
On this week’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, an exclusive interview with Wall Street’s long time number one economist Ed Hyman and Great Investor Bob Doll. What they expect in the economy and markets in 2012 and strategies to prosper in it.
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Ed Hyman
Founder
ISI Group
Bob Doll
Chief Equity Strategist
BlackRock 
We’ll see what tomorrow morning’s December employment report from the Labor Department brings, but several other employment indicators are registering improvement, including today’s unexpectedly strong surge in private payroll hiring from ADP- a 325,000 job increase which is the highest in more than ten years. It is one of a multiple of improving trends that Ed Hyman and his team at independent research team ISI Group have been tracking. As Ed will tell us in an exclusive television interview this week, the biggest difference he expects in the U.S. economy this year versus last is “it will be better.” He will talk about how and where in detail.
Ed Hyman is a phenomenon. He is the only person institutional investors have voted as Wall Street’s number one economist for 32 years running. He was just named to Institutional Investor magazine’s All-America Research Team Hall of Fame. He is the co-founder and Chairman ofISI Group and we are so delighted that he appears onWealthTrack exclusively every year.
Our other guest is BlackRock’s Bob Doll, who this week issued his famous “10 Predictions” list for the New Year. Bob, a long time member of WealthTrack’s brain trust, is the Chief Equity Strategist at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm. He also oversees the firm’s large cap investments and runs three highly regarded mutual funds- BlackRock’s Large Cap Core, Value and Growth funds.
Bob described 2011 as “frustrating, volatile and disappointing for most investors.” He got that right! We all hope it will be better! As the Financial Times reported, $6.3 trillion dollars was wiped off global stock markets in 2011, a 12.1% drop. The U.S. did put in one of the better performances, which is not saying much! Yes, the Dow was up 5.5%, but the S&P 500 was essentially flat, and the NASDAQ was lower.
The earthshaking Arab Spring movement, the real earthquake and tsunami in Japan, rising unemployment and tepid economic growth here, the string of seemingly ineffective bail out deals in Europe, failed debt reduction deals in Washington and the downgrade of U.S. debt all contributed to the worst market volatility in decades. Meanwhile corporate profits and cash levels are at record highs.
As WealthTrack Great Investor, Hersh Cohen recently wrote to his Clearbridge Advisors clients: “the biggest issue for the markets is not the jobless rate, the European debt, or the possible slowdown in China. Rather, it’s the remarkable and disturbing volatility of all the financial markets that is most responsible for keeping both individuals and professional investors either very cautious, and/or out of stocks entirely.”
I’ll ask Ed Hyman and Bob Doll about their expectations for market volatility, investment returns and stocks in particular.
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Consuelo 
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