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GLOBAL INVESTMENT TRENDS Transcript 8/16/2013 #1008

August 22, 2013

CONSUELO MACK: This week on WealthTrack, Morgan Stanley’s asset allocation king David Darst teams up with Mutual Global Discovery Fund’s Peter Langerman to dig for hidden treasures in world markets. Where are they finding buried bargains? Darst and Langerman on where the global values are, next on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack.

Hello and welcome to this edition of WealthTrack, I’m Consuelo Mack. This has been a great time to be a U.S. investor. Over the last couple of years American stock markets have outperformed the gains in other developed markets, including Europe, and have trounced the losses experienced in many emerging markets. Having a home bias has paid off, but will it continue to do so? If history is any guide the answer is no!

BOB DOLL: BULLISH ON STOCKS

July 20, 2012

There was a counter culture novel published in the 1960s, titled I’ve Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, a phrase later memorialized in a song written by Lee Hazelwood and picked up by the rock band The Doors that just might describe where market psychology is today. As last week’s guest, economist David Rosenberg wrote recently, the phrase “consumer confidence is an oxymoron.” As you can see from his chart consumer confidence is “mired in recession territory.” As Rosenberg points out “we are supposedly in the third year of a recovery, but confidence is below the level that would be consistent with economic contraction.” As he noted, he is “noticing a certain degree of despair these days, just as I am getting enthusiastic about the future.”
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