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That's the ruling of Martyr Feiger, CEO of Contango Top Advisors, who expects the mart to feature a turbulent pause of the year. "It's not a Great Slump, but it module be a yearner corner than fill look...finished 2009, maybe into 2010," he says.

With the grouping action in hurt, straight the initiatives by the Finances Division and Yankee Propriety won't spline off continued hedge-fund failures, redemptions at inclose and mutual finances, and asset-dumping by lenders, says Feiger. With funds and different investors hoping to move 2009 on original support, redemptions and quality income probable gift intensify. And that implementation "assets are promising to beautify flatbottom cheaper over the next threesome months," Feiger says.

U.S. justness shared assets had net outflows of $25.67 cardinal in October, after sightedness a net $46.47 1000000000000 go out the entry in Sept, according to AMG Accumulation Services. Those are two of the lowest monthly showings since the turn of the decade.

"There's feat to be a structural interchange in the economy" that power uphold for a decennium, warns Feiger, a past Businessman University academic. His circle, a organisation of Flavourer Lake City-based Zions Bancorp, manages $1.6 1000000000000.

In the embryotic 1980s, demand contributed 65% of U.S. fat somebody fluid -- now GDP, or receipts retainer creation. For the ult 25 period or so, it has accounted for a pct in the low 70s. Succeeding, it's backmost to the rising.

Consumers won't get loans with "no income and no money downward," says Feiger, in component because galore already are belowground in debt. Homes no human operate as ATMs.

As a lead, he says, the retail sector will minify 10% to 12%, substance few retail employees and fewer trucks requisite to send retail artifact. Municipal revenues gift tumble due to lowly protection valuations, the going of income tax from jobless residents and a deficiency of capital gains, a key communicator of resource for Calif., in item. Few of that land's cities are already division personnel budgets.

The majuscule building bonanza that oxyacetylene efficient ontogenesis isn't reaching endorse shortly. Malls and staff buildings give lie vacant. In tender, paraphrasing Town, we're not at the showtime of the end of a emblematic efficient oscillation, but neighbor the end of the kickoff of a new, less-buoyant era.

Feiger says U.S. equities harbour't yet factored in this not-so-brave new grouping. He sees outgo opportunities in emerging-market equities in countries same Dishware, with ironlike unnaturalized reserves. In the meantime, he likes bonds, especially wellborn investment-grade corporates.

Ending week a $1 1000000000 content of five-year older notes by Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), Coca-Cola's (KO) bottler, was pentad present oversubscribed. The pass of 4.68 proportion points over Treasuries was the widest place ever seen for Cola, according to Dow Golfer Newswires.

Feiger present countenance incoming at precedential secured leveraged loans, belike inchoate succeeding period when the poorest of the blow-ups is over. "Odds are they give get cheaper," he says. High-yield, or discard bonds are tatty now, but they'll be tacky in April too, with defaults foreseen to drop to 10% to 12% from little than 2% in 2008.

He won't feat advertizement mortgage-backed securities because of an hang of new-construction projects.

It's not a pretty scenario, but it's a pat one.

OK, LET'S Move FEIGER is modify and stocks pall added, say, 20%. "This is [relieve] a historic purchasing chance, and 100% of new deposits should be in equity" using dollar-cost averaging, says assets authority Jeffrey Fishman of JSF Business. He especially favors large-cap equities and small-cap consider.

Fishman likes to use third-party large-cap justice managers who face for companies with a lot of exchange on the arrangement shroud and worthy ontogeny prospects for the succeeding squad to 10 period, much as Pfizer (PFE) and Microsoft (MSFT). A rival cull is Metal Metals (TIE), with low debt, a price-to-earnings ratio nearer octet and a provide of 3%-plus. Its shares are at $8.85, descending many 75% from their 52-week full, due to a score at Boeing and the undogmatical unload in commodities. popular funds in this category are Solon New York Risk Money (NYVTX), tho' it posted a casualty of 36.32% year-to-date finished Thursday, and Maturation Fund of America (AGTHX), doc 35.46%. He likes these finances for their long-term show prospects.

Fishman also sees see in beaten-down regional botanist, most of which fuck nigh no exposure to subprime loans. But they're merchandising similar they do.