Monday, July 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET • 1.5 CE Credits

Join us for the 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook iSummit designed exclusively for financial advisors. This online event will provide expert insights from thought leaders across the globe. Speakers will provide market outlooks, investable trends, themes and opportunities. These interactive, educational sessions offer CE credits and are complimentary for financial professionals.

Agenda

Registration is now open for the 2025 Mid-Year Market Outlook iSummit. This online event is complimentary and provides 1.5 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credits. Topics to be covered during this live event include:


  • Current State of Global Markets
  • Macro Economic Outlook
  • Geopolitics as a Market Driver
  • AI Trends & Market Implications
  • Opportunities in Fixed Income
  • Systematic Investing in a Dynamic Market

Speakers

Mark Hackett

Mark Hackett

Chief Market Strategist

Nationwide

Mark Hackett is the Chief Market Strategist at Nationwide. Mark spearheads Nationwide’s capital markets analysis initiative, aimed at educating financial advisors and their clients on financial markets and their implications for investors. In this role, he collaborates closely with internal teams on thought leadership, asset allocation and manager selection, providing essential macroeconomic and asset class insights. Mark’s insights have been featured in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, MarketWatch, AP, and others. He also leads Nationwide’s public relations efforts on market-related topics. He also contributes weekly market commentary to the Nationwide Advisor Advocate Blog.

Mark brings nearly three decades of experience in the asset management industry, including serving as a portfolio manager for Nuveen, where he managed growth equity portfolios. He began his investment career at the Vanguard Group as a research associate in the fixed income group.

Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from the University of Richmond Robbins School of Business. Further underscoring his commitment to financial literacy, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Market Technician, and holds a Series 7 license. Mark also serves on the board of the local Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Ed Farrington

Ed Farrington

President, North America

Impax Asset Management

Ed is President, North America at Impax Asset Management and Co-Head of the Client Group. Based in the Portsmouth office, Ed is responsible for distribution of Impax’s full capabilities across North America. Ed previously served as the Head of Distribution for North America. In this capacity, he oversaw institutional and intermediary sales and client service efforts, engaging with consultants, advisers, institutions and plan sponsors on issues ranging from investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy to navigating global retirement systems.

Ed joined Impax in 2021 from Natixis Investment Managers where he held multiple distribution leadership roles in London and Boston over the span of 12 years. Prior to that, he worked in sales and sales management for Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Charitable Services and Pioneer Investments.

With a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire, Ed also holds the FINRA Series 6, 7, 24, and 31 registrations, and is a registered representative of Foreside Financial Services, LLC. He serves on the World Surf League advisory board, the Levitate Foundation and the sustainability advisory board at the University of New Hampshire.

Robb Ruhr, CFA

Robb Ruhr, CFA

Head of Portfolio Specialists, North America

Impax Asset Management

Robb leads the Portfolio Specialists team for North America, working closely with several portfolio management and construction teams across Impax Asset Management.

Robb began his career at UBS AG, where he held roles in interest rate and equity trading groups in London and Stamford, CT. He then moved to GE Asset Management where he was equity portfolio analyst in the listed equity team, an asset allocation analyst for the GE Pension, and finally moving to client service and business development. Prior to joining Impax in 2022, Robb was senior portfolio specialist in the systematic group at Allspring Global Investments (formerly Wells Fargo Asset Management) and was also responsible for representing the systematic investment team on equity and alternative products with investors and consultants globally.

Robb holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Calgary and is a CFA® Charterholder.

Jeremy Schwartz, CFA

Jeremy Schwartz, CFA

Global Chief Investment Officer

WisdomTree

Jeremy Schwartz has served as our Global Chief Investment Officer since November 2021 and leads WisdomTree’s investment strategy team in the construction of WisdomTree’s equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Jeremy joined WisdomTree in May 2005 as a Senior Analyst, adding Deputy Director of Research to his responsibilities in February 2007. He served as Director of Research from October 2008 to October 2018 and as Global Head of Research from November 2018 to November 2021. Before joining WisdomTree, he was a head research assistant for Professor Jeremy Siegel and, in 2022, became his co-author on the sixth edition of the book Stocks for the Long Run. Jeremy is also co-author of the Financial Analysts Journal paper “What Happened to the Original Stocks in the S&P 500?” He received his B.S. in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and hosts the Wharton Business Radio program Behind the Markets on SiriusXM 132. Jeremy is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

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This is an online event, and registration is complimentary for financial advisors.
Monday, July 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET • 1.5 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credits
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