As we hurtle toward the inevitable showdown between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney, the question is: will the economy rebound enough to keep the incumbent in the Oval Office or will the jobless recovery put the Republican candidate on top?

Senior Editor Lorie Konish put the question to Hans Olsen in this month's Five Questions. Olsen, head of Americas Investment Strategy at Barclays Wealth, concludes that the consumer will be one of the deciding factors. But you have to read all of his insights as to what advisors need to keep in mind for their clients during this presidential election year.

While the U.S. economy appears to be the only thing on the minds of voters, it's the global outlook that may have the biggest effect here. So this month we asked our resident international expert Milton Ezrati to weigh in on which parts of the planet are showing the most promise for investors. He offers his sweeping world view in "A Very Brief Tour of Global Investment Prospects."

We have even more to offer in our global package.

Our focus shifts as we go into more depth on that giant of the Far East with the help of writer Dave Lindorff. In "Finding the Safe Bet in China," Lindorff reports what he saw on his trip to Shanghai late last year. He then doubles back for the opinions of experts on the Chinese economy. Lindorff has a special affinity for China. He was a reporter there for five years between 1992 and 1997 for Business Week and is fluent in the language. He was also a Fulbright Scholar teaching journalism in Shanghai in the early 1990s.

This month, we also take a special look into the recent acquisition by Raymond James of Morgan Keegan through an interview with Tash Elwyn, the new and quite young president of Raymond James & Associates. He has spent his entire career at Raymond James, starting as a financial advisor and climbing up the corporate ladder. Now, just as he takes the reins of the employee channel, one of the firm's biggest purchases changes everything. So, read about Elwyn and what he has to say about this highly anticipated deal.

Frances McMorris was named editor-in-chief of ON WALL STREET in February 2008, after serving as executive editor since December 2004. She also created and serves as the host of AdvisorTV, an online video interview show appearing at onwallstreet.com.

From indictments to verdicts and appeals, Ms. McMorris has covered many major, high-profile cases in both federal and state courts as a legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, Newsday and The New York Law Journal. The cases that she has covered include: the seditious conspiracy trial of Sheik Oman Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of being the spiritual mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center; the constitutional battle over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy; the Crown Heights riot murder trial; federal racketeering cases against violent gangs; the Long Island pet cemetery trial and several securities fraud and insider trading cases, among others.

The legal issues she has written about are diverse and numerous, ranging from economic espionage to employment discrimination rulings and the first story to report that there is no expectation of privacy for employee emails written in the workplace.

Ms. McMorris is a 1993 graduate of Fordham University School of Law and admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars. She has appeared on the former CNNfn to give expert commentary on trials.

She also served as president of the Newswomen’s Club of New York for three years while working as an assistant managing editor at The Daily Deal in New York.

ON WALL STREET magazine has a circulation of more than 90,000—reaching financial advisors and brokers at the most prestigious brokerage firms who serve high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth investors.