Speaker: Sam Stovall, Chief Investment strategist at CFRA Research

Presentation: 2020 Foresight: Good Year vs Great Year
Equity Outlook for the Year Ahead

Biography:
As chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, Sam Stovall serves as analyst, publisher and communicator of CFRA’s outlooks for the economy, market and sectors. He is the chairman of the CFRA Investment Policy Committee, where he focuses on market history and valuations, as well as industry momentum strategies. He is the author of “The Seven Rules of Wall Street: Crash-Tested Investment Strategies That Beat the Market,” (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and writes weekly Sector Watch and Investment Policy Committee Meeting Notes on CFRA’s MarketScope Advisor platform. His work is also found in CFRA’s flagship weekly newsletter The Outlook.

Prior to CFRA, Stovall worked as chief equity strategist of S&P Capital IQ. There, he served as analyst, publisher and communicator of S&P’s outlooks for the economy, market, sectors and stocks. He was the chairman of the S&P Investment Policy Committee, where he focused on market history and valuations, as well as industry momentum strategies.

Stovall joined S&P in April 1989. Prior to S&P, he served as editor-in-chief at Argus Research, an independent investment research firm in New York City.

Stovall received an MBA in finance from New York University and a B.A. in history/education from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is also a certified financial planner.