Join us for the 2026 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.
Registration is now open for the 2026 Mid-Year Market Outlook iSummit. This online event is complimentary and provides 2 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credits. Topics to be covered during this live event include:
Chief Market Strategist, CFA, CFP®, CMT
Nationwide
Mark Hackett serves as Chief Market Strategist. As a leader for Nationwide's capital markets analysis, Mark develops content to educate financial advisors and their clients on financial markets and implications for investors. In this role he is responsible for asset class research, market commentary, white papers and topical market pieces. He has been featured in numerous financial publications and webinars.
Mark brings more than 20 years of experience in the asset management industry, including roles in research for both Nuveen and Vanguard Group and as a portfolio manager for Nuveen. He began his investment career at the Vanguard Group as a research associate in the fixed income group.
Mark has been interviewed by and quoted in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC.com, CNN Money, The Associated Press, Money and several others. He also contributes weekly market commentary to the Nationwide Advisor Advocate Blog.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Economics at the University of Richmond, holds Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designations and is a member of the CFA Institute.
Senior Portfolio Manager
Impax Asset Management
Nathan is a co-Portfolio Manager of the Impax US Small Cap strategy and a member of the Multi-Asset Sustainable Allocation team. He has been with Impax Asset Management since 2008.
Nathan previously worked in the portfolio management team at Citizens Funds where he initially joined as an analyst. He began his investment career at John Hancock Investment Management. Nathan is a CFA® Charterholder and member of the CFA Institute. He also holds a bachelor's degree in investment and economics from Babson College.
Senior Multi Asset Strategist
Pictet Asset Management
Arun Sai joined Pictet Asset Management in 2020 as Senior Multi Asset Strategist. Before joining Pictet, Arun worked at Credit Suisse for nine years where he provided country and sector investment recommendations and authored thematic research papers as a Global Emerging Markets strategist. Prior to that he was senior analyst with CRISIL where he built and managed a team of 15 offshore analysts working on global equity strategy and economics. He began his career in 2006 as a Business Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions.
Arun holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from University of Madras, India as well as an MBA (Finance) from Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India.
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