2026 Midyear ETF Market Outlook: Resilient fundamentals, rising fragility – State Street Investment Management – 6.16.26

Summary:

Earnings—the lifeblood of this bull market—continue to drive the multiyear rally in risk assets, even as the macro backdrop grows more challenging.

Join experts from State Street Investment Management to explore three themes to help position portfolios for the remainder of 2026:

• Diversify for a new regime with multi-asset strategies and real assets
• Position beyond US large-cap tech for the next wave of AI and economic realignment
• Prioritize income and resilience with active short duration and multi-sector credit

Accepted for 1 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credit

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Speakers:

Michael is the Chief Investment Strategist for State Street Investment’s US Intermediary business. He is responsible for expanding State Street Investment Management’s footprint and thought leadership effort through frequent contributions to the financial news media, speaking engagements and client interactions. Michael is a highly regarded speaker at industry conferences and is the author of several articles related to investment management practices. He is a member of the firm’s Senior Leadership Team.

During his 30-year career in the investment management industry, Michael has served as State Street Investment Management’s Global and EMEA Head of Portfolio Strategy as well as a senior portfolio manager in the Global Active Quantitative Equity Group. He has substantial experience developing long-only and long-short quantitative strategies and managing investment portfolios using quantitative disciplines. Michael has worked extensively with the firm’s global institutional and intermediary clients to help them identify investment solutions that enable them to meet their long-term financial goals.

Michael holds a BS in Finance from Bentley College. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and CFA Institute.

Matthew is a Managing Director at State Street Investment Management and Global Head of Research Strategists. He manages a team responsible for the product research and analysis of ETFs, and the development of market outlooks, investment themes, and portfolio implementation ideas to help clients understand the market landscape and achieve their desired investment outcomes.

Matthew graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Economics and earned his MBA at Northeastern with concentrations in Investment Analytics and Corporate Finance. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analysts designation, is a member of the CFA Institute as well as the Boston Security Analysts Society, and has earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He also holds the FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 licenses.

Allison Bonds Mazza is a Senior Managing Director of State Street Investment Management, the fourth largest asset manager in the world, and Head of US Wealth. In this role, Allison is responsible for defining and leading State Street Investment Management’s distribution strategy, including management of the external, internal and hybrid sales teams, as well as the national accounts, home office research, model portfolio and defined contribution teams, across all intermediary and direct retail channels. In addition, she serves as President of State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC, and is a member of State Street Investment Management’s Executive Management Group and State Street’s Operating Group.

Prior to her current role, Allison was the Head of Private Wealth Management and Independent Wealth Management, leading the sales and national accounts teams across the wirehouse, regional broker dealer, independent broker dealer, private bank and RIA channels. Previously, she served in a succession of increasingly senior leadership roles, beginning with Private Wealth Regional Director, Western Divisional Director for the Independent Wealth Management Channel and finally Head of the Private Wealth Management Channel. She joined SSGA in 2008 as a Regional Consultant in Southern California.

Before joining State Street Investment Management, Allison spent eight years with Prudential Investments where she held a number of client-facing positions, most recently Senior Vice President and Western Divisional Sales Manager for PGIM mutual funds and separately managed accounts (SMAs).

Allison is a graduate of Cornell University, where she received a B.S. in marketing. She has earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA^®) designation as well as the Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA^®) designation. Allison is a founding member of the Southern California Chapter of Women in ETFs and maintains her FINRA series 7, 66, 9, 10 and 24 licenses.