Economic Surprises & Lions – Oh My!
By Lori Calvasina
Published June 19, 2020 | 5 min listen
In this edition, Lori discusses two trends she’s keeping a close eye on right now. The first is the extent to which incoming economic data is positively surprising forecasters, something that’s been an important driver of US equity market performance recently. The second is the performance of the most popular stocks in actively managed, long-only Large Cap funds (known as the Lions), which experienced an important reversal in fortunes in mid-May.
Lori Calvasina
Managing Director & Head of U.S. Equity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
Lori Calvasina joined RBC Capital Markets in 2017 as a Managing Director. Having spent nearly two decades as an equity strategist at major investment banks, Lori is an expert on the US stock market, and regularly represents RBC in the financial media on Bloomberg and CNBC. Prior to joining RBC, Lori was a senior equity strategist at Credit Suisse from 2010 to 2017, covering Small/Mid Cap Strategy from 2010-2014 and both Small/Mid Cap and US Equity Strategy from 2015-2017. She spent the first ten years of her career at Citi in a variety of roles including lead Small/Mid Cap Strategist from 2007-2010. In both 2008 and 2009 Lori was ranked #2 in the Small Companies category in the Institutional Investor All America Research team poll. Lori is a graduate of the University of Virginia and its selective Government & Foreign Affairs’ Honors Program. In 2019, she was named to Crains New York’s list of Notable Women in Finance.
