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Upcoming Webinar | 2025 Market Outlook

Written by XML Financial Group | Dec 18, 2024 9:20:12 PM

 

Join us on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. EST, for a 2025 Market Outlook webinar with Rob Kantor, Chief Investment Officer at XML Financial Group and Candice Tsa. Candice is a Managing Director in the Global Client Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and serves as Global Head of the Strategic Advisory Solutions team. This webinar will focus on an analysis of global economic growth projections for 2025, including key drivers like GDP growth, inflation, and unemployment. We will also discuss interest rates and monetary policy and insights into the Federal Reserve’s potential actions in 2025, how rising or stable interest rates could affect your investments, consumer loans, and the housing market. Watch this webinar to gain valuable insights as we enter 2025. 

 

About Candace Tsa:

Candice is a managing director in the Global Client Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and serves as global head of the Strategic Advisory Solutions team. She focuses on global capital market research, macroeconomic strategy, portfolio construction and client engagement. In addition, Candice developed the firm's EMPOWER the Investor framework, which guides Asian, Black, female, Hispanic/Latinx and LGBTQ+ investors toward greater financial success. She serves as co-head of the Asian Network within Asset Management. Prior to assuming her current role, Candice served as US head of Market Strategy and held positions in Fundamental Equity Product Management, Institutional Sales and Portfolio Administration. Candice  joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in 1998 and was named managing director in 2019. Candice is a founding board member of the Rutgers Business School's Center for Women in Business and is a board member of the Rutgers Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors.  She is also an associate board member for Junior Achievement of New York. In 2021, she was named to the HERoes Role Model List, as a Top 100 Future Leader for her efforts in championing women in business and driving change for gender diversity in the workplace. Candice earned a BS in Marketing, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University and an MBA in Finance and Management from Columbia Business School.

About Rob Kantor:

Rob Kantor is the Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder of XML Financial Group. He oversees the firm’s investment advisory activity and is also head of the firm’s investment committee. Previously, he was Vice President and a Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch, where he specialized in custom retirement plan design. In addition, he also served on the Advisory Council to Management and was a founder of the Charitable Giving Committee.

Rob received a Bachelor of Science in business management from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. He has chaired various committees, and he serves on boards of non-profits in the local community. Rob has a passion for helping to find the cure for Alzheimer’s and served on the Board of the National Capital Area Alzheimer’s Association. Even though Rob’s children are in college, he still gives back to the Bullis School in Potomac through their Shark Tank entrepreneur program.