Stephanie Link

Stephanie Link is the Chief Investment Strategist, Head of Investment Solutions and Equity Portfolio Manager at Hightower Advisors, a national wealth management firm that provides investment, financial, and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations, and family offices. As Chief Investment Strategist, Ms. Link runs multiple equity strategies within the Investment Solutions group and often works with Hightower’s advisory businesses, and their clients to help them navigate the economy and markets. The Investment Solutions team at Hightower offers a variety of solutions in equities, fixed income, and private markets. This division currently has $5.4B in assets under management as of November 13, 2024.

Prior to joining Hightower, Ms. Link was the Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Equities research at Nuveen, where she co-managed the CREF Stock Variable Annuity Portfolio with $200 billion in assets, managed her own US Core portfolio with $3.7 billion in assets and oversaw thirty-three investment professionals who collectively managed $40 billion.

Before joining Nuveen, Ms. Link spent seven years at TheStreet as Chief Investment Officer and Co-Portfolio manager of Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust. Before that, she served for 10 years at Prudential Equity Group as Managing Director of Institutional Sales and Director of Research. She began her career at Dean Witter Reynolds in the Institutional Sales Department.

Ms. Link earned a Bachelor of Science in finance at Boston College. She currently serves as a member of KKR’s investment council, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. She has also served as Chairperson for the Investment Advisory Council at the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey for 15 years and has previously served on the Board of Trustees at The Pingry School.

As an investment professional with 33 years of experience managing money, Ms. Link’s insights are frequently sought after for industry events and by the media. She is currently a CNBC contributor and frequently appears on The Halftime Report, Squawk Box, The Closing Bell, and Power Lunch. She has garnered numerous industry accolades, including being featured on the covers of Crain’s New York Business as one of the Notable Women on Wall Street in 2022, as well as Kiplinger’s Where to Invest in 2021. Additionally, she received the Savvy Ladies award as Change Maker in 2023 and was also recognized as one of the Women to Watch by InvestmentNews in 2023.