Mid-year outlook with Kristina Hooper and how to navigate markets with multi-strat hedge funds – Man Group – 7.22.25

Overview:

Title: Mid-year outlook with Kristina Hooper and how to navigate markets with multi-strat hedge funds
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Summary:

Recently markets have reached record highs, but there may still be uncertainties to navigate in the second half of 2025. Will traditional 60/40 portfolios continue to provide adequate diversification for what lies ahead? Join Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund, as they explore strategies to navigate potential market surprises and discuss other diversification approaches.

Key discussion points include:

  • Mid-year outlook: Kristina Hooper, Man Group’s Chief Market Strategist, will explain why she expects an economic slowdown in the back half of 2025, driven by greater uncertainty and protectionism affecting both US and global markets.
  • How seeking an all-weather solution can help navigate today’s complex markets: Uncertainty can be particularly disruptive to the traditional 60/40 approach. Man Group will examine how diversifying beyond conventional allocations and incorporating uncorrelated assets may unlock alpha opportunities.
  • Potential benefits of multi-strat hedge funds for long-term risk adjusted returns: Examine why Man Group believes a multi-asset approach should diversify exposures across different return sources, manage risk and aim for low to negative correlation to traditional assets to seek better outcomes.

Accepted for 1 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credit

Speakers:

Kristina Hooper Kristina Hooper Chief Market Strategist Man Group

Kristina Hooper is the Chief Market Strategist at Man Group, a global alternative investment manager. In this role, she provides views and insights on the economy and markets. She was featured on the cover of the January 2015 issue of Kiplinger’s magazine, and appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance and Reuters TV. She has also been a mainstage speaker at numerous national and regional conferences. She is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, Reuters and other financial news publications.

Prior to joining Man Group in 2025, Kristina served as the Chief Global Market Strategist at Invesco and previously worked at Allianz Global Investors. She earned a BA degree, cum laude, from Wellesley College; a JD from Pace University School of Law, where she was a Trustees’ Merit Scholar; an MBA in finance from New York University Stern School of Business, where she was a teaching fellow in macroeconomics and organisational behaviour; and a master’s degree from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where she focused on labour economics.

Greg Bond, CFA Greg Bond, CFA Chief Executive Officer, Man Numeric, and Portfolio Manager of Man’s multi-strategy hedge fund

Gregory (‘Greg’) Bond is CEO of Man Numeric, Head of the Americas for Man Group, and lead portfolio manager for Man Group’s flagship multi-strategy fund. He also serves on the Man Group Executive Committee and the Man Numeric Investment Committee.

Previously, Greg was director of research at Man Numeric, responsible for research initiatives, including the day-to-day management of Man Numeric’s strategic alpha research team. Before becoming director of research, he was a portfolio manager for various hedge fund strategies at Numeric as well as being co-head of its hedge fund group, having joined in 2003.

Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and in biology from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.