Richard Bernstein, U.S. Strategist for Merrill Lynch to Discuss Why High Quality Income-Producing Investments Are Critical to Future Financial Health on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack This Friday

Business Wire, Oct 20, 2005

NEW YORK -- Richard Bernstein, Merrill Lynch's highly respected U.S. Investment Strategist says that the key to an individual's future financial health will be high quality income-producing investments. He'll explain why when he appears this weekend on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, the new weekly public television series that offers a unique holistic approach to investing. Its mission is to help viewers manage "all the investments they care about" for the long term, including stocks, bonds, real estate, insurance and collectibles, with advice from the best minds in business. Veteran business journalist Consuelo Mack brings viewers the acknowledged experts in a diversified range of fields, in a fresh format with broad appeal.

Consuelo Mack WealthTrack airs in New York on Fridays at 7:30 pm on WLIW21 and on Saturdays at 8 am on Thirteen/WNET. The half-hour weekly program is broadcast on public television stations on Friday evenings or over the weekend around the country. See local listings for exact times. Consuelo Mack WealthTrack is sponsored in part by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and presented nationally to public television stations by WLIW New York. For weekly episode information, see www.wealthtrack.com or www.wliw.org. Press materials available at www.wliw.org/pressroom.> WLIW New York is the fourth most-watched public television station in the United States, with an average weekly cumulative audience of nearly two million households in the New York metropolitan area. As a resource for public television stations, WLIW distributes live daily broadcasts of BBC World News, as well as the weekly series Wild Chronicles and past financial series Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street.

For more information, visit www.wliw.org.