Consumer >> Analyst Interviews >> August 9, 1999

Advertising & Marketing Services : –

Fine, Lauren Rich
LAUREN RICH FINE is a First Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Strategy and Research, at Merrill Lynch & Co. She joined research in 1988 as a member of the media team. She has been a member of Institutional Investor's All Star Team for nine years and is the top ranked Analyst on the Greenwich survey. She is an active member of the Media and Entertainment Analysts Group in New York. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch Equity Research, she held positions within Merrill Lynch's Treasury group, National Semiconductor's Treasury operation and spent two years as part of Merrill Lynch Economics. She received her BA in Economics/Psychology from Tufts University and her MBA from New York University in Finance/International Business. Profile
TWST: What are the issues that investors should focus on as they

consider the advertising/marketing services sector going into the second

half of 1999?

Ms. Fine: Probably the overriding issue