Institutional Investor Sentiment Finally Takes A Hit
By Lori Calvasina
Published September 30, 2021 | 6 min listen
This week in the podcast, we discuss the latest developments in investor and earnings sentiment, which we’ve been keeping a close eye on this month, as well as a few thoughts on the rotation out of growth we’ve been seeing this week. Three big things you need to know. First, institutional investor positioning has finally taken a hit. Second, earnings sentiment has continued to deteriorate, driven by cyclicals and supply chain concerns, but so far the damage has been concentrated in a few sectors. Third, we think there’s more to the rotation out of Growth this week than higher bond yields, but regardless this rotation has become another catalyst for downside in the US equity market in the near-term. Our bottom line, as we think across all of these issues, is that the volatility we’ve been in as regards to the broader US equity market likely isn’t done yet.
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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