Asset TV Review Magazine - November 2025

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ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF FINANCE

EVP’S NOTE

Welcome!

2025 has been a fantastic year for Asset TV. We’ve reached new audiences and experienced continued growth, particularly in the U.S. market where we now connect with over 430,000 advisors across wirehouses, broker dealers, and RIAs, as well as asset owners in the institutional channels.

Supporting investment professionals with great content and CE Credits for their continuing education and professional development has always been our mission, helping the industry grow stronger.

The topics sparking the most viewer interest this year have been Private Markets, ETFs, Fixed Income, and insurance solutions, with Annuities proving particularly popular.

Globally, Asset TV serves markets across North America, the UK and Europe, Asia, and South Africa. We’re proud to partner with the global investment community.

Looking ahead to 2026, we’re excited to continue expanding our reach, working with more asset manager partners, and delivering the insights you depend on. We’re especially thrilled to welcome Kristin Myers to our team as ETF Editor in Chief, and look forward to launching a series of new ETF programs.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Neil Jeffery
Head of Americas

THE LOGAN QUARTET: ONE FIRM, FOUR LENSES

Logan Capital’s latest visit to the Asset TV NYC Studio distilled the firm’s playbook into four crisp ideas: lead with earnings in largecap growth, stay disciplined with dividend performers, lean into international tailwinds, and keep income portfolios ahead of the curve as the rate cycle evolves.

LOGAN CAPITAL’S UNIQUE APPROACH TO LARGE CAP GROWTH INVESTING

Stephen Lee

Founding Principal & Treasurer

Founding Principal Stephen Lee underscores how Logan’s growth approach anchors on “earnings leadership” and rigorous macro cross-checks that help frame positioning and risk.

DIVING INTO DIVIDEND PERFORMER STRATEGIES

O’Keefe

Managing Director Chris O’Keefe brings the dividend lens: consistent growers, valuation discipline, and a willingness to let time in the market do the heavy lifting.

CATALYSTS SUPPORTING THE LOGAN INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

William (“Bill”) Fitzpatrick surveys catalysts across exU.S. markets - policy cycles, currency dynamics, and sector leadership that’s diverging from the U.S.

EXPLORING MARKET DYNAMICS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Stephen Lee’s income update ties it all together: stay flexible across duration and credit, and let portfolio construction reflect today’s dispersion rather than yesterday’s regime.

TOP TRENDS IN RETIREMENT PLANNING

Experts from MassMutual Strategic Distributors discuss demographic shifts transforming the industry, managing retirement risks in the current macroeconomic environment, and potential ways to bolster retirement income.

OCTOBER UPDATE ON MARKETS

MassMutual

“Historically, shutdowns have mostly been a nonevent economically, and markets have reflected that historical reality. So the markets thus far have largely shrugged this off. We don’t have a strong reason to believe that will change, but we’ll continue to watch both. Of course.”

RETHINKING RETIREMENT AND ITS RISKS

“A well-funded 401(k) won’t help if a disability happens or a long-term care event happens that wipes out your savings. So, risk management is not optional. It’s foundational.”

A CASE STUDY ON VARIABLE ANNUITIES

Matt O’Brien

Regional Vice President

MassMutual Strategic Distributors

“Variable annuities, especially those with GLWBs or the RetirePay benefit, can significantly enhance retirement income. I mean, there may be clients in your practice that are being underserved in their current investment solutions.”

WOMEN DRIVING GROWTH IN ANNUITIES

Key Account Manager Annuity Solutions

MassMutual Strategic Distributors

“Women prefer to use and utilize income protection and contractual safety more so than men when it comes to their investment choices, hence the rise in annuities. And a really interesting fact is by 2028, women will control most of the discretionary spending.”

PLANNING FOR A 30-YEAR RETIREMENT

Ericka Spann

Regional Vice President

MassMutual Strategic Distributors

“Advisors have a great opportunity, especially partnering with the age lab and helping clients really envision that complete total picture, not just the risks, but what it may look like throughout that whole retirement journey to rely on a more holistic approach.”

THE TOP 10 MOST WATCHED IN 2025

The power of Asset TV to deliver research to a network of more than 430,000 investment professionals in the U.S. allows them to make better informed investment decisions. Viewers from all major wirehouse, broker-dealer, and RIA

firms watch for their investment due-diligence and to benefit from an accredited source of continuing education.

THOUGHT LEADERS

#01

Kent White Thrivent Asset Management

Jeff Schulze ClearBridge Investments #02

Jack Janasiewicz Natixis Investment Managers #03

Brian Hess Natixis Investment Managers #04

Steve Lowe Thrivent Asset Management #05

David Spangler Thrivent Asset Management #06

Ed Coyne Sprott Asset Management #07

Anne Walsh Guggenheim Investments #08

Benedek Vörös S&P Dow Jones Indices #09

Dan Ivascyn PIMCO #10

LEADING COMPANIES

#04 #09
#05 #10

FIXED INCOME IN FOCUS

We explore the latest thought leadership from PIMCO on the trajectory of monetary policy, the outlook for municipal bonds, and attractive opportunities in global fixed income.

FROM CASH TO CURVE: RETHINKING ALLOCATIONS AMID RATE CUTS

Dan Ivascyn

“Our base case thinking is the Fed is increasingly focused on weakness on the employment side, is willing to look through what we expect to be slight to moderate increases in inflation over the short term as tariffs do begin to roll through into consumer prices.”

THE FED CUT. NOW WHAT?

“They felt that on risk management considerations that they wanted to not only deliver the 25, but also signal an additional 50 basis points of cut.”

MUNI BOND UPDATE: WHAT’S NEXT FOR TAX-EXEMPT BONDS?

THE COMPELLING GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY SET AMID DIVERGING GROWTH AND POLICY

“Global bond markets are about 150 trillion in size. This is the public bond markets. The size outside of U.S. is about a hundred trillion. So by investing internationally, a U.S. based investor gets to triple the opportunity set.”

The best opportunities we see today are to take advantage of that cheapening of the long end in the municipal market, where investors can own an A-rated or AA rated Muni bond somewhere between four and a half and 5% tax free, and expect to earn not just the simple yield, but also some role down in carrier or price appreciation.

LOW DURATION INCOME: BALANCING INCOME GENERATION AND DOWNSIDE PROTECTION

Alfred

“So the objective is to try to have less volatility in the low duration income strategy than income strategy. So it’s not just an income strategy with less interest rate risk, it’s also in general trying to have less credit risk.”

ETF FLOWS AND INNOVATION

We dive into strategies for investors looking to do everything from capitalize on megatrends to manage risk during times of heightened volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.

ASSESSING GLOBAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

“Geopolitical volatility has increased in a tremendous way. And it’s one of those areas where if you ask an investor how are they managing that risk in their portfolio, there are very few ways to do it where you stay 100% invested in something.”

PYLD: AN ACTIVE MULTISECTOR CREDIT ETF

“The starting level of yield remains elevated and a good indicator of potential forward returns. While many fixed income markets have rebounded, significant uncertainty remains as investors grapple with the full economic impact from tariffs, other policy changes and ongoing focus on deficits.”

WHY INVESTORS ARE DIVERSIFYING GLOBALLY

“In the U.S. market, non-U.S. equities had $26 billion of positive inflows to non-U.S. equity linked ETFs in June alone. Looking at a report from State Street Investment Management, for example, they know that’s the second best period in history.”

NAVIGATING MARKET VOLATILITY WITH COMMODITIES

“Turmoil is often good for commodities. And what’s happened this year has had direct effects on commodities, and maybe some secondary effects as well.”

IDENTIFYING COMPANIES POISED TO BENEFIT FROM GLOBAL MEGATRENDS

“Think about the biggest changes that you are seeing in your day-to-day lives. What we are trying to do as investors is identify and capture those changes. Everything from semi-conductors through to smart glasses, through to artificial intelligence.”

EVOLVING TRENDS REDEFINING INDEX USAGE

We share perspectives from S&P Dow Jones Indices on leveraging direct indexing, assessing fixed income performance, understanding sustainability trends, and analyzing market dynamics to inform innovative, customized investment strategies.

UNLOCKING SCALE AND CUSTOMIZATION WITH DIRECT INDEXING

Brandon Hass Managing Director and Head of Direct Indexing and Model Portfolios

“Within a direct index, you own the underlying securities, and, so, what you’re able to do is address this concept of scale that we’ve talked about with financial planning and rules-based structures, but also customization.”

TRACKING FIXED INCOME PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION

Benedek Vörös Director, Index Investment Strategy

“We’ve seen U.S. corporate credit indices outperforming both in the investment grade and the high yield space. And that outperformance over Europe came despite the fact that European credit spreads themselves did better than the U.S. ones.”

REVIEW

UNDERSTANDING ENERGY TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

Maya Beyhan Global Head of Sustainability, Index Investment Services

SURVEYING U.S. MARKETS: SECTORS, GEOPOLITICS AND INDEX-BASED STRATEGIES

“If you look over the very long term, which party holds the presidency, the Senate, Congress, on average, doesn’t seem to make an enormous amount of difference to the overall market. However, policy, political whims do impact different industries and sectors very differently.”

“What we have noticed is that there has been a shift in the narrative in the recent years toward energy transitions. A lot of conversations are revolving around that topic, and what we also see is that because it’s such a complex topic, there will likely not be a single solution.”

CUSTOMIZING BITCOIN EXPOSURE TO MITIGATE RISK SYSTEMATICALLY

Mike Willis CEO & Co-Founder Cyber Hornet ETFs

“The new digital asset class, it’s a high-risk, highreturn potential category…. So what we’ve done is we’ve taken the S&P 500, mixed it in with the digital asset to buffer that volatility, and that way we believe it can be made available to a larger investor base.”

MIDLAND ADVISORY | FLEXIBLE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS OFFERING GROWTH POTENTIAL

Midland Advisory provides flexible retirement solutions offering growth potential with asset protection, guaranteed income, and unique features that can help clients prepare for health-related events. Annuities built to integrate within your practice.

THE CASE FOR BLENDING ANNUITIES AND PORTFOLIOS

Kevin Sullivan

National Sales Manager

Midland Advisory at Midland National® Life Insurance Company

Kevin explains how shifting a portion toward guaranteed income can reduce portfolio stress, increase certainty, and better protect against outliving savings.

BECOMING THE INDISPENSABLE ADVISOR

Cooper Sinclair, Head of Strategy for Midland Advisory Robert DeChellis, Founder and CEO of Bonsai

Become the kind of advisor that clients can’t live without. Cooper and Robert share Bonsai’s approach to asset-liability management and ways in which you can transition from a vicious cycle to a virtuous one to gain client trust and strengthen your advisory practice.

ADVISORY WORKSHOP: FIXED INCOME IN FOCUS

Cooper Sinclair, Head of Strategy Gene Hauser, AVP of Product Development

Cooper and Gene discuss why now is a great time to consider fixed income alternatives. This video is part two of the series. Check out our channel for part one: Advisory Workshop: Mechanics of FIAs.

SPOTLIGHT ON PRIVATE MARKETS

Carlye, Guggenheim Investments, PGIM, StepStone Private Wealth Solutions, and TCG Real Estate offer insights into the benefits, performance, and strategic opportunities of private credit, private equity, and real estate. TRENDING

EXPLORING U.S. MID-MARKET INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

“We’ve spent the last 30 years allocating to the US midmarket. So we view transactions as a way to get specific exposure, and I think structurally you can do that in a variety of ways. You can own different vintages that are dedicated to a specific transaction type, LP led or GP led secondaries. You can own a direct or a co-investment book. You can commit to a GP’s latest primary round. There are a number of different ways to get that exposure. I think the evergreen will touch facets of each.”

UNLOCK NEW OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH NON-SPONSORED DEALS

“In the US alone, there’s more than 200,000 middle market family-owned businesses that are operating that and only 10% or less of those are private equity sponsor-owned, so when you think about the white space that’s available for originating deals, those privately held businesses offer a lot of opportunities to help offset the ebbs and the flows that you get from the M&A activity that you’re seeing in the sponsored transactions.”

PRIVATE CREDIT: EQUITY-LIKE RETURNS WITH LOWER VOLATILITY

“For the last 20 years, private credit has generated a net return annualized compounded of about 10% with about 3% per year annual volatility in comparison to the S&P 500 with about an 11% annualized return and a 16% volatility.”

MASTERCLASS: PRIVATE EQUITY AND SECONDARIES EXPLAINED

O’Connor

“Maybe 80 to 90% of companies of material size, companies with revenues of a hundred million dollars or more, are private….If you’re not looking at the private markets, you’re ignoring a large part of the investable universe today.”

REDEFINING PORTFOLIOS: BRINGING ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS TO YOUR CLIENTS

Jackson Fallon

Director and Head of RIA Key Accounts, Blue Owl Capital

“The Nest by Blue Owl, which we recently launched, is a great resource to help advisors learn about private markets, learn how to implement those in portfolios, comes with educational models, portfolio tools, as well as general thought leadership.”

NAVIGATING UNCERTAIN MARKETS WITH NATIXIS INVESTMENT MANAGERS

Natixis Investment Managers explores current market dynamics, highlighting gradual changes in the labor market, value stock opportunities across sectors, and strategies for portfolio customization and risk management in a cautious yet resilient investing environment.

STOCKS STRENGTHEN, LABOR MARKET WEAKENS. WHAT’S NEXT?

Brian Hess

Portfolio Manager

Natixis Investment Managers Solutions

“If you look at a chart of the unemployment rate, historically, it typically bounces around at a low level for a long period of time, and then when it starts to rise, it rises very rapidly. That’s what you’re talking about with respect to the asymmetry. And we have not seen that. It’s been a very gradual rise in the unemployment rate so far.”

TRACKING FIXED INCOME PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION

Nick Elward Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional Product Development and ETFs

Natixis Investment Managers

“Institutional investors at this point are thinking similarly to some more sophisticated retail investors where they’re getting a little concerned about how the equity markets have been so strong in the last few years. So they’re cautious. And with that level of cautiousness, they’re being sure to make sure that they’re rebalancing on a regular basis”

REVIEW

FALLEN ANGELS TO CURRENCIES: ATTRACTIVE YIELD PLAYS TODAY

Brian Kennedy

Portfolio Manager, Full Discretion Team

Loomis, Sayles & Company

IS NOW AN UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE TIME FOR VALUE STOCKS?

“A lot of times value is just in one or two sectors. But today, if you move away from technology, most everything in the market looks unusually attractive. So we’re finding value not just in some of the traditional value sectors, like financials or oil and gas, but also in media, in technology, consumer non-durables, consumer durables.”

“The credit markets have held up really well. We’re coming off a period of exceptionally pristine balance sheets in corporate America going back the last few years. So, what we’re starting to see now is a little bit of an off-the-top kind of a condition where profit margins are weakening a little bit, leverage is up, interest coverage is down.”

CREATE CUSTOMIZED PORTFOLIOS USING DIRECT INDEXING

Direct indexing can support Environmental, Social, and Governance investing as well, by actively including certain companies or sustainable industries through positive screening based on ESG ratings. Negative screening can be based on ratings, but can also use business involvement screening or revenue thresholds of controversial companies.

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ELEVATING ADVISORS THROUGH GROWTH, GUIDANCE, AND COLLABORATION

Beacon Pointe, Cerity Partners, Stonebriar Wealth Management, Integrated Partners, MarshBerry and Hue Partners highlight how RIAs are enhancing advisor development, navigating record-setting M&A activity, and helping coordinate complex financial plans.

MEET THE RIA: INTEGRATED PARTNERS

“We help our advisors partner with CPAs to work with their most complex clients to bring significant collaboration and clarity to those clients’ lives. We also do a significant amount of coaching, training, and development of our advisors and their team members.”

MEET THE RIA: CERITY PARTNERS

“We have a very clear path. We call it path to partnership, that we are a true partnership and want every colleague to be able to achieve optimal fulfillment. Sometimes that is in their roles and responsibilities. Sometimes that’s also an economic success, but in order to achieve any form of fulfillment, there needs to be a clear path.”

M&A: THE RISING IMPORTANCE OF SCALE, GEOGRAPHY, AND PRE-DEAL INTEGRATION

“Private capital’s dominance has certainly been a game changing trend. At MarshBerry, we tracked record-setting paces in the wealth advisory M&A to August of this year. There have already been 240 announced transactions, which is an uptick of 20% from last year.”

RIA M&A TRENDS TO WATCH

“Trends in the space right now are really unlike anything we’ve seen before from a volume perspective. This year, 2025 will, I think, really just dwarf all previous records as far as volume of activity, diversity of activity.”

HOW TO QUARTERBACK YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE

“It’s really digging into the details of someone’s financial plan and looking across all areas and then coordinating with each of those professionals, whether it be an estate planning attorney, a CPA, even home and auto insurance, coordinating with the insurance agent that they have.”

NAVIGATING RETIREMENT WITH ANNUITIES

Delaware Life, Eagle Life, Guardian, Transamerica, and TruStage

share how annuities can provide personalized investment strategies, downside protection, guaranteed income, and peace of mind, helping clients navigate market volatility.

THE 7 PILLARS TO DELAWARE LIFE’S SUCCESS

Delaware Life Marketing

“We like the idea of telling people exactly the way a product works, helping them have the right expectations walking into it. So all throughout the life of the contract, they’re never surprised but always pleased.”

THE ROLE OF ANNUITIES IN TIMES OF VOLATILITY

“And I think the other thing it does is it gives them peace of that when volatile times do hit and you’re in retirement and that’s when it can be the most scary as an investor, you can afford to stay the course.”

REVIEW

RILA REIMAGINED: TRUSTAGE ZONECHOICE ADVANTAGE

“It is designed to help clients personalize their investment approach by balancing market growth potential with downside protection. It helps provide simplicity and flexibility for every market environment, ensuring clients have access to investment strategies that align with their financial goals.”

ANNUITIES Q&A WITH EAGLE LIFE

Eagle Life Insurance Company

“Because of the interest rate environment and the benefits associated with annuities, they’ve become much more lucrative than they were in the past. And what’s happened is, more and more advisors are opening up to the idea of leveraging an annuity as a fixed income alternative as a portion of their portfolio.”

GUARDIAN: RETHINKING RETIREMENT PLANNING WITH ANNUITIES

“If you want to start talking income to a client, one question I like to bring into the fold is to simply ask the client, when you retire, how much of your income do you want guaranteed? And how much do you want at risk?”

INSIGHTS FROM MASTERCLASS

ClearBridge Investments, Guggenheim Investments, MassMutual Investments, PGIM Investments, and Sprott share insights on precious metals, active vs. passive strategies, asset-backed finance, fixed income, high-yield credit, and the growing impact of active ETFs in today’s markets.

SPROTT: GLOBAL LEADER IN PRECIOUS METALS & CRITICAL MATERIALS

Ed Coyne Senior Managing Partner

Sprott Inc.

“We have over four decades of experience in this space, and we’re one of the largest firms out there that focuses just on the metals and materials markets. We have over $40 billion in assets under management.”

WHY MARKET CONCENTRATION COULD REWRITE THE ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE PLAYBOOK

Jeff Schulze, CFA® Head of Economic and Market Strategy ClearBridge Investments

“This is a tremendous environment for active managers to be able to gain on their passive counterparts because there’s a durable competitive advantage that I think is going to last over the next three to five years. So far, year to date, over 50% of active managers are beating the passive indices.”

THE CASE FOR FIXED INCOME IN A VOLATILE WORLD

THE CASE FOR HIGH YIELD IN THE CURRENT MARKET ENVIRONMENT

“When you think about the credit quality of the market, roughly about 53%, over 50% of our market is BB rated. So that’s the highest component of the rating categories across high-yield markets.”

“We continue to expect a low but positive growth environment for the overall U.S. economy and the continuation of a relatively low unemployment rate. Part of that comes from dynamics like labor hoarding, changing immigration dynamics, but overall low unemployment rate.”

ACTIVE ETFS ARE QUIETLY DOMINATING MARKET INFLOWS

“Active ETFs, while they’re only 10% of the assets within the total ETF industry, they’re taking 40% market share of flows. And it has the third year running, where the flows have exceeded 25% of industry flows, despite only being anywhere between 6% and 10% of AUM.”

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ANNUITIES: BALANCING INCOME, GROWTH, AND LONGEVITY

WITH MASSMUTUAL STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTORS’ RETIREMENT EXPERT: ALEX SAMOILA

EXPERT PROFILE

As an expert in annuities, Alex Samoila understands the complexities and challenges facing retirees today. The Vice President, National Sales Manager at MassMutual Strategic Distributors joined Asset TV’s Hot Seat to answer questions from financial professionals about issues surrounding retirement solutions.

As you look at annuities and all the various product types and all the features and benefits, how do you best select the right product, the right set of investments, and the right benefits for your client?

ALEX SAMOILA:

“There’s a lot of products out there. There’s a lot of really great solutions out there. As a matter of fact, at MassMutual, and all of our peers in the industry, we’re constantly working to try to develop solutions that fit a need that we anticipate clients are going to have as they age and as they move to and then through retirement. So a lot of the product features that are out there, although a lot of them are similar, there’s a lot that are different and designed for very specific needs. So the first thing that you would want to do in assessing this is, one, understand what the client’s goals and objectives are, and then through the various carriers out there, the insurance companies that create these products, is identify the ones that really speak to the need that the client has today and the needs that they’re going to have as they continue to age. When it comes to the actual investments and how do I select an investment, I know at MassMutual we have the ability to allow you to choose portfolios that we create, or you could select your own investments, and this is similar to all the annuities that are out there. The best thing to do is the way that you do a risk profile when selecting your mutual funds or ETFs, do the exact same thing for annuities, because the investments, the underlying investments work very, very similarly. So again, assess the needs that the clients have, look at the benefits that annuities offer as you get into retirement and through retirement, and make sure that the risk that you’re taking with the underlying investments aligns with the risks that clients are comfortable to take in your non-annuity solutions, because they work very, very similar.”

MEET THE TEAM

We’d love to discuss with you how our audience reach can support your content creation and distribution strategies. Please reach out to a member of our team to learn more.

Neil Jeffery

EVP Head of Americas neil.jeffery@asset.tv

Jillian Ball SVP Sales jillian.ball@asset.tv

Jenna Dagenhart Program Anchor jenna.dagenhart@asset.tv

Jason Brandt SVP Head of Sales jason.brandt@asset.tv

Michelle Richard SVP Strategic Partnerships michelle.richard@asset.tv

Jocelyn Garcia Sales Operations jocelyn.garcia@asset.tv

Kristin Myers ETF Editor in Chief kristin.myers@asset.tv

Laura Kline Audience Development laura.kline@asset.tv

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