Performance Numbers Make the Case for Mid-Caps

A first vice president of prudential Securities Inc., and director ofsmall-cap research. She joined Prudential in 1986 as a quantitative analyst. Previously she was a senior consultant for Interactive Data Corporation in Boston and a financial analyst for Bostongas Company. Ms. Mott holds a B.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.B.A. from Boston University.

A junior quantitative analyst with Prudential Securities' Small-Cap Reseanh Group. She was previously with Dean Witter Reynolds InterCapita1 as an investment management associate. Ms. Eschert holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Vormont, and is currently pursuing an M.B.A. at Fordham University.