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The world is witnessing a major rebalancing of economic power. Once dominated by the G7 nations, it is today making room for a new and expanding set of rapidly growing economies. The citizens of emerging market countries, while comparatively poor on a per capita GDP basis, are being helped out of poverty by astounding rates of domestic economic growth. For some of the larger developing economies such as China and India, economic progress has catapulted them to a plane where they are able to compete side-by-side with the wealthiest and most advanced nations of the world.

In this edition of Eton's quarterly newsletter, they discuss goals-based investing from the highly personal and conceptual processes of goal definition and prioritization featured in past issues to the important process of marrying the investor’s goals with his investment portfolio. The report includes a quarterly economic and market outlook by Jean Brunel.

This paper, which draws from interviews and a survey of executives in privately held businesses in North America and Western Europe, explores how private companies are turning to emerging and fast-growing markets that, in the

Quarterly Highlights - PwC commissioned independent research firm BSI Global Research Inc. to interview 225 chief executive officers (CEOs/CFOs) of leading privately held US businesses in the first quarter of 2013. The interviewees were asked about their current business performance, the state of the economy, and their expectations for business growth over the next 12 months. The authors then compared the responses with the prior quarter's results to see how the outlook has changed.

Wealth management firms are beginning to understand the value of their data, the efforts required to maintain it and the importance of managing and storing data accurately. This white paper looks at why data aggregation has become so important and dives into the various risks and rewards associated with different data aggregation options.

In the second quarter 2013 issue of Global Foresight, Rockefeller & Co. provides an outlook for a range of asset classes. David Harris, Chief Investment Officer discusses the current status of the equity markets. Mark Iannarelli, Director of Fixed Income, and Matthew Gelfand, Senior Economist, explain how bond portfolios are at risk of a cyclical drop in prices over the next few years, but conclude that major allocations away from fixed income would be premature. Victoria Melendez, Managing Director, writes on the relative merits of private equity in a low interest rate environment.