2022 Outlook: A Transition Year – Northern Trust Asset Management – 12.16.21

Overview:

Title: 2022 Outlook: A Transition Year
Date: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

Now On Demand.

Learn how central-bank moves, corporate profits and interest rates will drive returns and asset allocation in the coming year. Join our Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Fixed Income as they explore:

  • Economic growth: durable trend, tamer inflation
  • Monetary policy: tapering and rate hikes
  • Portfolio positioning: a bias toward risk-taking

Speakers:

Jim McDonald Jim McDonald
Chief Investment Strategist
Northern Trust

Jim McDonald is an executive vice president and the chief investment strategist for Northern Trust. He is responsible for overseeing the strategic and tactical asset allocation policy for our institutional and wealth management clients globally. He chairs the Northern Trust Tactical Asset Allocation Committee and is a co-portfolio manager of the Northern Global Tactical Asset Allocation Fund. In addition, he is a member of the Investment Policy Committee and trustee of the 50 South Capital Alpha Strategies hedge fund.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2001 as the director of equity research, Jim was director of equity research at ABN AMRO in New York and Chicago (1994-2000) and an equity research analyst at ABN AMRO following the environmental services industry (1990-1994). He started his professional career in 1981 with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Detroit.

Jim received a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA degree with high distinction from Babson College. He is a member of the CFA® Society of Chicago and a registered CPA in the state of Michigan.

Colin Robertson Colin Robertson
Head of Fixed Income
Northern Trust Asset Management

Colin Robertson is an executive vice president and head of fixed income for Northern Trust Asset Management. Colin is responsible for overseeing fixed income investments for individual and institutional investment management accounts at Northern Trust as well as for Northern Funds and Northern Institutional Funds. Through his leadership managing interest rate-sensitive and credit-sensitive fixed income portfolios, Northern Trust has built a world-class fixed income team, investment process and products.

Prior to joining Northern Trust as a senior vice president in July 1999, Colin worked for Mellon Financial Corporation where he was the chief investment officer of Mellon Global Securities Lending. At the same time, Colin was a senior manager representing investment activities for Mellon Capital Management and the Boston Company.

Prior to Mellon Financial, Colin managed short/intermediate money for Harris Investment Management. In addition, he has seven years of experience as a sell side trader of mortgages, treasuries, asset-backed, corporate, agency and various other fixed income asset types across the entire yield curve spectrum.

Colin is a board member of the American Bankers Association Investment Advisory Committee. In addition, Colin is a former trustee of the LaGrange, Illinois, Firemen’s Pension Fund, and a former board member and vice president of the LaGrange, Illinois, Policemen’s Pension Fund.

Colin received a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University and an MBA degree in finance/international management from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University.