Top Stocks Aren’t Having a Good Year

By Lori Calvasina
Published June 9, 2021 | 5 min listen

In this week's episode, Lori takes a deep dive into the holdings of actively managed Large and Small Cap funds, based on their 1Q filings. Though the data lags, it usually provides important insights into active manager positioning and sentiment, and this time it was actually quite insightful. The big thing you need to know – the favorite stocks of long-only managers in both Small Cap and Large Cap aren’t performing very well in 2021, but it doesn’t really matter as the funds themselves are still having a very good year, due to good stock picking in 1Q and some favorable sector exposures.

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Lori Calvasina
Managing Director & Head of U.S. Equity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

Lori Calvasina joined RBC Capital Markets as Head of U.S. Equity Strategy 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.

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