A couple thousand institutional investors and other money managers spent big money to fly in from New York, Boston and London to attend T. Rowe Price's annual investment symposium at the Marriott Waterfront. We give you symposium panelists' best ideas for free. Panelists speaking on "The Global Investment Environment" this morning were asked for investment recommendations for next year.

Brian Rogers, chairman & chief investment officer, T. Rowe Price Group:
Large-cap growth stocks. "The trend is your friend" for large-cap growth, he says, both inside and outside the United States.

Mary Miller, director, Fixed Income Division:
Intermediate-term bonds. The "yield curve" will get steeper, she says, meaning the spread between short-term rates and long-term rates will widen. So the place to be is in the middle, maturity-wise. She also likes inflation-protected securities (TIPS), whose payouts increase along with inflation.

David Warren, president, T. Rowe Price International:
Large-cap growth stocks in international markets. Emerging markets also have more to go, he says. Emerging market valuations are getting high, but emerging-market profits are also growing by 20 percent annually. He also likes Japan stocks, although he admits he has said the same thing in previous years, when Japan stocks disappointed.