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In this special report, Northern Trust experts provide policy analysis for each potential United States election result—as well as steps that can be taken to prepare for all outcomes. Read the report for insights into planning for Divided Government, Unified Democratic, Unified Republican, and Delayed or Contested results. Along with having a goals-based framework approach for wealth planning, it allows investors and wealth advisors to evaluate tradeoffs and uncover new opportunities to take action with confidence in any environment.

The close of each economic cycle and the start of the next carry a unique set of circumstances and challenges. From the vantage point of the depths of the decline, the conditions needed to produce a new expansion can appear daunting. Yet, a signal feature of the U.S. economy, one that has persisted since World War II, has been its ability to shake off the troubles of the failing cycle and ably power into a fresh expansion. In this Capital Markets Forecast report, we look at how to best mitigate today the long-term investment risk of a possibly retreating U.S. economy tomorrow.

Looking at the economic outlook for the U.S. and across the rest of the globe, Doug McHoney and Alexis Crow at PwC discuss the recession outlook and economic activity of some significant economies, the impact of inflation, central bank policy, including interest rates, commercial real estate and financial stability, currencies and the future of the U.S. Dollar, energy transition, and the U.S. election outlook. As PwC’s Geopolitical Investing Practice Leader, Alexis also speaks about the macrotrends that fascinate her and one thing she is hopeful about in the future.

Since 1986, Byron R. Wein gave his views on a number of economic, financial, and political surprises for the coming year. By “surprise,” Byron defined it as an event that the average investor would only assign a one out of three chances of taking place but which he believed had a better than 50% likelihood of happening. Paying homage to Byron’s annual “10 Surprises” in this video, NEPC’s Phillip Nelson and Tim McCusker discuss their own predictions for 2024—their five market themes for 2024: cost of capital, magnificent 7, U.S. fiscal debt, artificial intelligence, and geopolitics.