Market Insights: New Developments, What to Consider, and Top Questions Answered

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Jim Armstrong

Jim Armstrong is a marketing director in Fidelity’s Personal Investing division. In this position, he creates educational content for workplace participants to help with retirement planning and other financial wellness topics. Formerly, Jim distinguished himself as an Emmy-winning journalist, spending 17 years as a television reporter for network affiliates around the country.

Elizabeth Hare

Elizabeth Hare is a vice president in Fidelity’s Personal Investing division. In this position, she creates educational content for workplace participants to help with retirement planning and other financial wellness topics.

Elizabeth holds a master of business administration degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Fordham University.

Jurrien Timmer

Jurrien Timmer is the director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries.

In this role, Mr. Timmer is part of Fidelity's Global Asset Allocation (GAA) group, where he specializes in asset allocation and global macro strategy. Additionally, he is responsible for analyzing market trends and synthesizing investment perspectives across Asset Management to generate market strategy insights for the media, as well as for Fidelity's clients. Mr. Timmer has been at Fidelity for 22 years and has more than 30 years of experience in the industry.

Prior to assuming his current position in 2005, Mr. Timmer held various other roles within Fidelity, including director of market research and technical research analyst. He also co-managed Fidelity Global Strategies Fund from 2007 to 2014.

Before joining Fidelity in 1995, Mr. Timmer was a vice president in the Fixed Income group at ABN AMRO. He has been in the financial industry since 1985.

Mr. Timmer earned his bachelor of science degree in finance from Babson College.

Leanna Devinney, CFP^®

Leanna Devinney is responsible for leading one of Fidelity’s Investor Centers, offering financial and investment guidance to our clients including one-on-one retirement planning, wealth management, income strategies, and college planning services, as well as integrated employer benefit solutions.

She’s been with Fidelity for more than nine years and has spent that time working face to face with customers. She greatly enjoys building relationships with clients by getting to know them, learning about their backgrounds, and helping them identify their goals.

Leanna holds a bachelor’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and she holds the Certified Financial Planner™ designation.

Dirk Hofschire, CFA^®

Dirk Hofschire is senior vice president of asset allocation research in the Global Asset Allocation (GAA) group at Fidelity Investments. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing, and other financial products and services to institutions, financial intermediaries, and individuals.

In this role, Mr. Hofschire is a member of the Asset Allocation Research Team (AART), which conducts economic, fundamental, and quantitative research to develop asset allocation recommendations for Fidelity’s portfolio managers and investment teams. AART is responsible for analyzing and synthesizing investment perspectives across Fidelity’s asset management unit to generate insights on macroeconomic and financial market trends and their implications for asset allocation.

Previously, Mr. Hofschire led the Market Analysis, Research, and Education (MARE) group within Fidelity, which he created in 2005 to provide timely updates on trends in the economy and financial markets. He joined Fidelity in 2000 as a senior portfolio analyst.

Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Hofschire was a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. He served in many different roles, including financial economist for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; economic and commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia; and consular officer at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Mr. Hofschire received a bachelor of science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and his master of business administration from Johns Hopkins University. He is a graduate of the Economic and Commercial Studies Program of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, and is also a CFA^® charterholder.

Denise Chisholm

Denise Chisholm is a sector strategist in the Equity and High Income division at Fidelity Investments.

In this role, Denise is responsible for the research of portfolio construction strategies combining sector-based mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Prior to assuming her current responsibilities in April 2013, Denise held multiple roles within Fidelity, including research analyst on the megacap research team, research analyst on the international team, and sector specialist.

Previously, Denise performed dual roles as an equity research analyst and director of Independent Research at Ameriprise Financial. In this capacity, she focused on the integration of differentiated research platforms and methodologies. Before joining Fidelity in 1999, Denise served as a cost-of-living consultant for ARINC and as a Department of Defense statistical consultant at MCR Federal. She has been in the financial industry since 1999.

She earned her bachelor of arts degree in economics from Boston University.

Market Insights: New Developments, What to Consider, and Top Questions Answered

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