Crossmark's Doll on what went right - for him and the market - in 2024

Bob Doll, chief investment officer at Crossmark Global Investments (crossmarkgloba...) , says that 2024 proved most pundits wrong, as they forecast years that were much more modest than the 25 percent that the stock market gained, with more economic struggles and more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. His forecasts (crossmarkgloba...) , however, proved mostly right, as he reviews 2024 in today's Big Interview. Speaking of a review of the year just finished, John Cole Scott of Closed-End Fund Advisors (cefadvisors.com) - the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance (aicalliance.org) - looks back at the prognostications for the closed-end fund industry that he made a year ago and how the data now shows nearly all of them to have been correct. And as for prognostications, Adam Peck, co-founder of Riverwater Partners (riverwaterpart...) , makes a big one in the Market Call when he says that the cycles that have favored large-caps over small stocks are now long in the tooth, which is why he is expecting small-caps to outperform over the next 15 years.