Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> July 9, 2001

Outlook For Brokers & Asset Managers: Joan Solotar – Credit Suisse First Boston

JOAN SOLOTAR is Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. She is currently a member of the Financial Services Research Team at CSFB, following the merger with DLJ. In 1989, she joined DLJ where she worked for 11 years. Prior to joining DLJ, Ms. Solotar was with The First Boston Corporation. She has more than a decade of experience covering brokerage, market structure and asset management companies. Ms. Solotar is currently Chairperson of the Research Analysis and Financial Services Planning Committee 2001 of the Securities Industry Association. She has been a member of Institutional Investor's 'All-America Research Team' for the past seven consecutive years: 1995-2001. In the latest poll, Ms. Solotar was a runner-up in the 'Brokers and Asset Managers' category. Ms. Solotar ranked number three in the most recent Reuters Large Cap Company Survey published March 2001 and was the number three ranked Equity Analyst in Greenwich Research's 2000 survey. Ms. Solotar has also been a top-ranked analyst in The Wall Street Journal's annual stock picking survey several times. Profile
TWST: Joan, how have the brokers and asset management stocks performed

over the past six to 12 months?

Ms. Solotar: If you measure performance beginning in December 2000,

which is when