Investing
Your life goals are unique. The path you take to achieve them should be, too.
Our disciplined approach to investment management begins by understanding your life goals, risk tolerance, liquidity needs, tax liability and financial responsibilities. Then, in collaboration with you, we create an investment strategy unique to your objectives, from current income generation to maximizing the potential for capital growth.
A process centered around you
We combine proactive expert advice, a broad array of capabilities and our latest technology to tailor a sophisticated investment strategy to help you achieve your goals.
Goals Driven Wealth Management
We match your goals with the appropriate asset allocation based upon the goal’s time horizon and your risk preferences. This approach gives a clearer sense of purpose to each asset in support of your priorities.
Brokerage Services
Our wholly owned broker-dealer, Northern Trust Securities, Inc., has a number of products and services to enhance your total financial plan.
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Katie Nixon, CFA, CIMA, CPWA |
Katie Nixon, CFA, CIMA, CPWA
Katie is an Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for the Wealth Management business at Northern Trust. In that capacity, Katie leads the national investment management practice for Northern Trust’s Wealth Management business from the firm’s Chicago headquarters. Her responsibilities include investment policy development with a particular focus on portfolio construction and implementation. She also directs the investment management activities of over 200 Northern Trust portfolio managers across the firm’s 60+ Wealth Management offices. Katie sits on the Firm’s Investment Policy Committee and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee, and she chairs the Wealth Management Investment Advisory Committee. Katie was selected as one of Private Asset Management’s ‘50 Most Influential Women in Private Wealth’ for 2016.
Prior to joining Northern Trust, Ms. Nixon worked at U.S. Trust Company for eighteen years in several investment related capacities, including Managing Director and Division Manager in the Wealth Management Division in New York, overseeing a group of portfolio managers and client service officers with total combined assets under management in excess of $7 Billion. Ms. Nixon also served on US Trust's Portfolio Policy Committee as well as the Private Equity Investment Committee.
Katie received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, Stern School of Business where she graduated with distinction, Beta Gamma Sigma, and was a Stern Scholar. She has received the designations of both Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA®) from the Investment Management Consultants Association. Further, she has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and is also a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA).