Exchanges At Goldman Sachs

In this special episode, four leaders across Goldman Sachs—Raj Mahajan of the Global Markets Division, John Marshall of Goldman Sachs Research, Lizzie Reed of the Investment Banking Division, and Greg Tuorto of Goldman Sachs Asset Management— discuss the historic rise of retail investing and its profound implications for market participants.

With the strength of the IPO market and the surge in IPOs via SPACs continuing into 2021, host Allison Nathan, creator and editor of the firm’s Top of Mind report, asks experts whether or not these trends are sustainable. She speaks with Goldman Sachs’ head of Global Equity Capital Markets, David Ludwig, Professor of Finance at the University of Florida, Jay Ritter, and Professor of Business and Law at Stanford Law School, Michael Klausner. A note to subscribers of the Top of Mind at Goldman Sachs podcast: going forward, we will be publishing future episodes as Exchanges at Goldman Sachs so please be sure to subscribe to that feed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the strength of the IPO market and the surge in IPOs via SPACs continuing into 2021, host Allison Nathan, creator and editor of the firm’s Top of Mind report, asks experts whether or not these trends are sustainable. She speaks with Goldman Sachs’ head of Global Equity Capital Markets, David Ludwig, Professor of Finance at the University of Florida, Jay Ritter, and Professor of Business and Law at Stanford Law School, Michael Klausner.

Scott Rubner of Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Division recaps historic inflows into global equities in January and talks about the ongoing retail trading phenomenon and what it means for markets.

Pierre Hudry, head of Goldman Sachs' Paris office, talks about the landscape in France for both small businesses and large corporations as the economy recovers from the pandemic. 

One year after Goldman Sachs’ first-ever Investor Day, Stephen Scherr, the firm’s Chief Financial Officer, provides an update on how the firm is tracking against its goals and why 2021 will be a “year of execution.”

Alec Phillips, chief political economist for Goldman Sachs Research, talks about the policy outlook for the year ahead.

Jennifer Roth of Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Division gives a quick update on why investors have been turning to emerging markets amid the global backdrop of low interest rates.

Olympia McNerney of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division talks about the continued momentum behind SPACs as an alternative path for companies to raise money in the public markets. 

As part of a client call hosted on January 8th, Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs’ chief economist, talks about why his team continues to forecast above-consensus growth for 2021, despite the weak US jobs report for December. 

Joe Wall of Goldman Sachs’ Office of Government Affairs explains what’s included -- and what’s not – in the US’ second stimulus package of 2020. Wall also talks about other policy priorities that investors are watching for in the new year. This podcast was recorded on the morning of December 21, 2020. 

Richard Ramsden, business unit leader of the Financials Group for Goldman Sachs Research, provides an update on the financial services industry and the market backdrop going into 2021.

Jeff Currie, head of Commodities Research for Goldman Sachs Research, talks about why his team is bullish on commodities for 2021.

Drew Pavlovich of Goldman Sachs’ Consumer and Wealth Division recaps a historic year in financial markets and talks about how clients are positioning their portfolios going into 2021. 

Gregg Lemkau, co-head of the Investment Banking Division, reflects on how the industry and the firm have changed – and stayed the same – since he joined Goldman Sachs in 1992.  

Moran Forman of Goldman Sachs’ Global Markets Division gives her take on how institutional investors are viewing market pricing and volatility going into the last few weeks of the year.

Scott Rubner of Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Division breaks down the record-setting November in equity markets and talks about investor sentiment going into year-end.

Andrew Tilton, chief Asia-Pacific economist for Goldman Sachs Research, talks about his team’s economic outlook for Asia-Pacific in 2021, and why they’re forecasting above-consensus growth. “We’re optimistic about growth in Asia-Pacific next year,” Tilton says. “We think the region could grow more than 7% in 2021. We’re optimistic about the world also – we think the world can grow about 6% – but especially optimistic about Asia-Pacific.”

Goldman Sachs Research remains confident about the global recovery in 2021, says Peter Oppenheimer, the firm’s chief global equity strategist. “We are optimistic for equity markets, risk assets and indeed the economy,” Oppenheimer says in this episode, and goes on to explain why he thinks the current bull market is transitioning from a “hope” phase to a “growth” phase. “As we move forwards in time, we do expect to see more even returns globally – less so than extreme outperformance of the US,” says Oppenheimer. “We would expect people to be diversifying more by country, region and by industry.”

Wolfgang Fink, CEO of Germany and Austria for Goldman Sachs, talks about why Germany’s economy has weathered the pandemic better than that of many of its European neighbors and what’s ahead on the road to recovery.