Adam Smith

NAME: Randy Bateman FIRM: Huntington Asset Advisors TITLE: President and CIO ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT: $14.6 Billion          YEARS IN THE BUSINESS: 40 LAST YEAR'S RETURNS VS S&P: Past 12 months Huntington Situs Fund +28.79% versus S&P 600 +24.31 and S&P 500    +23.49% FIRST JOB IN BIZ: Analyst at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh,  N.C.• What is the most dominant theme you are seeing that will impact the market over the next year, and how do you use it?The most dominate theme will be to assess the impact of regulation and taxation on the status of the economy. Even if the 'fiscal cliff' can be averted, we would still have to deal with a slower growing economy and weaker corporate profits. We tend to expect to see the two dominate pieces of legislation (Dodd-Frank and healthcare) to have extensive unintended consequences on the housing, healthcare, financial and energy sectors. As we saw in the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, many companies could not bear the cost of regulation and thus capitul...

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