
Northern Trust Chief Investment Strategist Jim McDonald explores current financial issues in this month's Market Insights:
Timely and topical, Market Insights provides a concise and thorough analysis of the broad range of complex issues and events that affect the global financial markets.


Jim McDonald is a Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Strategist for Northern Trust. In addition, he chairs the Northern Trust Tactical Asset Allocation Committee, is a member of the Investment Policy and Private Equity Investment Committees, and is trustee of the Northern Trust Alpha Strategies Hedge Fund.
Prior to joining Northern Trust as a Senior Vice President in 2001, Jim was Director of Research at ABN AMRO in New York and Chicago (1994-2000) and Equity Research Analyst at ABN AMRO following the Environmental Services Industry (1990-1994). He started his professional career in 1981 with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Detroit.
McDonald received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and an MBA degree with high distinction from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and a registered CPA in the State of Michigan.
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