Josh Snyder
GQG Partners
Josh serves as Global Investment Strategist and has more than 10 years of experience across various banking, insurance, research, and investment advisory roles. Prior to joining GQG Partners, he served as a Commercial Portfolio Manager at Regions Bank, overseeing a portfolio of middle-market bank loans. Prior to Regions Bank, he was a Research Associate at Summit Strategies Group responsible for idea generation, asset manager due diligence, and asset class research in the non-US equity space. He holds a BS in Finance from Webster University and is a CFA charterholder.
Erin Browne
PIMCO
Ms. Browne is a managing director and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on asset allocation strategies, including PIMCO’s multi-asset funds and RealPath Blend target date offerings. She manages multi-asset strategies, leads the Glide Path leadership team, and has served as a rotating member of the Investment Committee.
Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, Ms. Browne was a managing director and head of asset allocation at UBS Asset Management, helping to drive the firm's macro research, capital market assumptions, tactical asset allocation, and strategic asset allocation views across asset classes. Previously, she was head of macro investments at UBS O'Connor, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, and a global macro portfolio manager at Point72 Asset Management. She has also held roles at Citigroup, Moore Capital Management, Neuberger Berman, and Lehman Brothers.
She regularly appears on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and in other financial news media. She serves as the board treasurer of the Ecology Center and is on the advisory board of Girls Who Invest. She has 21 years of investment experience and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University.
Kurt Reiman
BlackRock Investment Institute
Kurt is a Managing Director and Senior Strategist for North America on the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). In this role, Kurt contributes to the formation of BII's tactical investment views and delivers the team's macroeconomic and financial market outlook to investment professionals and the media throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Kurt joined BlackRock in 2013 as a Global Investment Strategist based in New York within the firm's Multi-Asset Strategies group, bringing with him over 15 years of experience in investment research and strategy. In 2016, Kurt was appointed as the Chief Investment Strategist for Canada, based in Toronto. He generated investment insights on Canada's financial markets and communicated them to clients, BlackRock's investors and client-facing professionals. He also appeared regularly in the financial news media, including BNN Bloomberg, the Financial Post and the Globe and Mail.
Prior to joining BlackRock, Kurt was the Head of Thematic Research at UBS Wealth Management in New York and Zurich. Kurt began his career at the G7 Group in Washington, DC and Reuters in Stamford, CT.
Mr. Reiman earned his B.S. degree in Business and Economics from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, and his M.S. degree in International Relations with a concentration in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.