2025 ETF Market Outlook: Soft Landings and Bull Markets – SSGA – 1.16.25

Overview:
Title: 2025 ETF Market Outlook: Soft Landings and Bull Markets
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

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What’s next after the rare soft landing? With stocks at all-time highs, credit spreads historically tight, and most measures of market volatility tranquil, we look for economic growth to accelerate in the new year. Get positioning ideas for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Join experts from State Street Global Advisors as they explore these three strategies for 2025:

  • Ride US Economic Tailwinds
  • Actively Manage Income and Alpha
  • Diversify Portfolios with Alternatives

Accepted for 1 CFP® / IWI / CFA CE Credit

Speakers:
Michael Arone, CFA Michael Arone, CFA Chief Investment Strategist, US Intermediary Business Group State Street Global Advisors

Michael is the Chief Investment Strategist for the US Intermediary Business Group at State Street Global Advisors. He is responsible for expanding State Street Global Advisors’ footprint and thought leadership effort through frequent contributions to the financial news media, speaking engagements and client interactions. Michael is a highly regarded speaker at industry conferences and is the author of several articles related to investment management practices. He is a member of the firm’s Senior Leadership Team.

During his more than 20-year career as an investment professional, Michael has served as State Street Global Advisors’ Global and EMEA Head of Portfolio Strategy as well as a senior portfolio manager in the Global Active Quantitative Equity Group. He has substantial experience developing long-only and long-short quantitative strategies and managing investment portfolios using quantitative disciplines. Michael has worked extensively with the firm’s global institutional and intermediary clients to help them identify investment solutions that enable them to meet their long-term financial goals.

Michael holds a BS in Finance from Bentley College. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and CFA Institute.
Matthew Bartolini, CFA, CAIA Matthew Bartolini, CFA, CAIA Head of SPDR Americas Research State Street Global Advisors

Matthew is the Head of SPDR Americas Research at State Street Global Advisors. He manages a team responsible for the product research and analysis of SPDR ETFs, and the development of market outlooks, investment themes, and portfolio implementation ideas to help clients understand the market landscape and achieve their desired investment outcomes.

Matthew graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Economics and earned his MBA at Northeastern with concentrations in Investment Analytics and Corporate Finance. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analysts designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society. He also holds the FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Allison Bonds Mazza, CIMA, CPWA Allison Bonds Mazza, CIMA, CPWA Head of Intermediary State Street Global Advisors

Allison is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Intermediary for the America’s Wealth business at State Street Global Advisors. In this role, Allison is responsible for defining and leading SSGA’s distribution strategy, including management of the external, hybrid and internal sales teams, as well as the national accounts and home office research teams, across intermediary channels. She is a member of the SSGA Executive Management Group, the SSGA Senior Leadership Team, and the US SPDR Senior Leadership Team.

Allison is a graduate of Cornell University, where she received a B.S. in Marketing. She is a member of the Investment Management Consultants Association and maintains the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She also holds the Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA) designation from The Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. She maintains her FINRA series 7, 66, 9, 10, and 24 licenses.
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