ELECTION 2020: Geopolitics and the Global Markets

October 27, 2020 at 10 a.m. CT

Wealth Management CIO Katie Nixon welcomes Financial Times World Trade Editor James Politi for an analysis of how varying election outcomes could impact the geopolitical landscape.

Join us to learn more about the candidates’ proposed trade policies, the likely path of deglobalization, the state of key negotiations, and the implications for global markets.

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).

James Politi World Trade Editor Financial Times

James Politi is the world trade editor for the Financial Times (FT). In this role, he leads coverage of international trade, globalization and multilateral economic institutions from Washington D.C., where he is also deputy bureau chief. James has been following every twist, turn, tariff and tweet of the U.S.-China trade war – and the simmering tensions over trade between the U.S. and EU. He is a contributor to Trade Secrets, FT's daily briefing on the changing face of global trade policy.

Previously, as FT’s Rome bureau chief, James led coverage of Italian politics, economics, foreign policy and the Vatican. He was part of the team of FT reporters in Europe who won the British Press Awards “Team of the Year” award for a series on populism in Europe, to which he contributed with articles on the anti-immigrant Northern League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement. Prior to Italy, he was U.S. economics and trade correspondent, based in Washington D.C., assisting in coverage of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department.

After joining FT in London in 2002 on the international capital markets desk, Politi moved to New York as U.S. deals reporter, covering mergers and acquisitions and private equity.

In 2007, he won first prize for coverage of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, at the M&A International Awards. In 2006, he was awarded an “Honorable Mention” for the Overseas Press Club Malcolm Forbes Award for “Best Business Reporting from Abroad” for FT’s coverage of Cnooc’s attempted takeover of Unocal.

Politi received his master’s degree from the London School of Economics, a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, a university degree from the University of Florence, and a certificate from the international program, Institute of Political Studies, Paris.

Politi speaks French, Italian and Spanish.

Follow him on Twitter @JamesPoliti