Originally presented at LinkedIn's FinanceConnect:13 event in NY on 5/2/2013. Jill Schlesinger, Senior Business Analyst at CBS News, provides a overview of trends and opportunities posed by the evolving global economy.

1. Trends and Opportunities
Jill Schlesinger
Senior Business Analyst
CBS News
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2. FinanceConnect 2013
Trends and Opportunities
May 2, 2013
Jill Schlesinger, CFP
CBS News Senior Business Analyst
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3. Who I am
CBS News Senior Business Analyst
Investment Advisor and CFP
Commodities Trader
SALESMAN!
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4. Global Macro
Outlook 2013
“We don’t have a
sense of the final
destination … Where
we end, I really don’t
have much of clue.”
- IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard 4/2013
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• Global growth = +3.3%
• US = +2%
• China = +8%
• Eurozone = -0.3%
• Japan = +1.6%
• Emerging and Developing = +5.3%

5. US Recovery
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6. US Recovery
Measures used by the NBER business cycle dating committee:
• GDP: returned to the pre-recession peak in Q4 2011
• Jobs: 2.2% below pre-recession peak (2M private sector
jobs/yr)
• Industrial Production: 1.2% below pre-recession peak
• Real personal income: 3.7% below previous peak
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7. US Recovery: GDP
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8. US Recovery: Jobs
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9. US Recovery: Housing
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10. Central Bank Action
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11. US Recovery: Profits/Stocks
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12. Financial Services:
What’s Ahead
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13. Regulatory
How to impose limits
that preserve the
safety of the system,
without discouraging
innovation?
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14. Business Opportunity
Mass Affluent (Net worth $100K-1M)
• 1/4 work with advisor
• < 1/3 wants to be actively involved with money management
• > 40% are unsure of retirement
• 60% worried about children and grandchildren
Spectrum Group “2013 Mass Affluent Investor”
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15. Business Opportunity
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16. Breaking Through
• 92% of Americans use multiple
platforms to get their daily news.
• 37% of internet users have
contributed to, commented on, or
disseminated news via social.
• 100M active users are publishing
200M tweets a day.
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17. Social is the KEY
By 2014, nearly 165M people will be regular users of social
• 65% multi-task while watching TV
• Younger, participatory
• Raving Fans
• Low cost prospecting
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18. Thank You!
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