Live Webinar

June 9, 2020 at 10 a.m. CT

Northern Trust CIO Bob Browne and Wealth Management CIO Katie Nixon will discuss why the stock market has climbed in the face of social and economic upheaval.

Speakers

Katie Nixon Chief Investment Officer, Wealth Management Northern Trust

Katie is an Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for the Wealth Management business at Northern Trust. In that capacity, Katie leads the national investment management practice for Northern Trust’s Wealth Management business from the firm’s Chicago headquarters. Her responsibilities include investment policy development with a particular focus on portfolio construction and implementation. She also directs the investment management activities of over 200 Northern Trust portfolio managers across the firm’s 60+ Wealth Management offices. Katie sits on the Firm’s Investment Policy Committee and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee, and she chairs the Wealth Management Investment Advisory Committee. Katie was selected as one of Private Asset Management’s ‘50 Most Influential Women in Private Wealth’ for 2016.

Prior to joining Northern Trust, Ms. Nixon worked at U.S. Trust Company for eighteen years in several investment related capacities, including Managing Director and Division Manager in the Wealth Management Division in New York, overseeing a group of portfolio managers and client service officers with total combined assets under management in excess of $7 Billion. Ms. Nixon also served on US Trust's Portfolio Policy Committee as well as the Private Equity Investment Committee.

Katie received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, Stern School of Business where she graduated with distinction, Beta Gamma Sigma, and was a Stern Scholar. She has received the designations of both Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA®) from the Investment Management Consultants Association. Further, she has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and is also a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA).

Bob Browne Chief Investment Officer Northern Trust

Bob Browne is executive vice president and chief investment officer for NorthernTrust. He is a member of Northern Trust's Management Group. He is also a co-portfoliomanager of the Northern Global Tactical Asset Allocation Fund.

Bob chairs the firm’s Investment Policy Committee, which sets investmentpolicy for all Northern Trust groups in all asset classes. He is responsible for investmentperformance, process and philosophy across multiple investment strategies includingfixed income, active equity and passive investments. Bob joined Northern Trust inJanuary 2009 and has 30 years of investment experience.

From 2004 to 2009, Bob worked for ING Investment Management and was the firm’schief investment officer for fixed income and proprietary investments. In this capacity,he oversaw $120 billion in assets under management across retail and institutionalclients, as well as the firm’s own insurance assets. From 2002 to 2004, Bobwas founder and managing partner of Picador Capital, an alternative investment firm.From 1999 to 2001, he was co-head of Americas fixed income for Merrill Lynch Investmentsand he also worked in the firm’s London office from 1997 to 1999 as a seniorportfolio manager. Bob spent the first eight years of his career, from 1989 until1997, at JP Morgan Investment working as a global fixed income and currency portfoliomanager in the firm’s Tokyo and London offices.

Bob holds a bachelor’s degree with a major in economics from the Collegeof the Holy Cross. He also has a master’s in international business studiesfrom the University of South Carolina. Bob is a CFA® charterholder.