Perspectives

Get timely insights and analysis on the global economy and investment markets from our team of strategists, analysts and portfolio managers.

• Between the Margins - December 2024
  As the year ends, Empower's Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton reflects on how the markets in 2024 have led to several key lessons and takeaways.
• 2025 Economic and Investment Market Outlook
  Empower's 2025 outlook covers a wide range of material, from our expectations for the U.S. economy to market conditions, risks, and opportunities, and, key themes around artificial intelligence, politics, and geopolitics.
• Between the Margins - November 2024
  Empower Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton shares key finding from her 2025 economic and investment market outlook.
• Between the Margins – October 2024
  Empower’s Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton discusses the potential economic and market impacts of the upcoming election season.
• Between the Margins - September 2024
  A look at what’s happening in the markets and economy with Empower’s Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton.
• Empower Investments Second Quarter Review
  Now that inflation is probably under control, is an economic recession still a possibility? Empower Portfolio Strategist Tom Nun weighs in on the risks of market contracture, how the Federal Reserve beat inflation in the travel sector, and how a weakening labor market may be an ominous sign of recessionary conditions.
• Webinar Replay: Mid-year outlook for the economy, investment markets and retirement plan legislation. 
  Join Empower's panel of experts, including new Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton for a roundtable discussion of critical topics around the economy, the investment markets and retirement plan legislation.

• Empower Investments Weekly Capital Markets Perspectives

  Empower Investments Portfolio Strategist Tom Nun provides a weekly look at economic and investment market activity.