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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs28 min
Focus on financials: Why banks and asset managers are constructive about the economy in 2024
Richard Ramsden, Alex Blostein, Alison Nathan
Financial institutions now anticipate a soft landing with reduced recession risks, driven by stable deposit flows and a shift toward a higher-for-longer interest rate environment. While commercial lending stagnates due to tightened underwriting and regulatory capital requirements, the private credit sector is expanding rapidly as non-bank lenders absorb displaced loan demand. Concurrently, banks are fortifying reserves against commercial office real estate exposure and navigating a contentious regulatory framework that could further compress traditional intermediation while accelerating industry consolidation.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Middle East risks
Edward P. Djerejian, Emile Hokayem, Alison Nathan
Former U.S. Ambassador Edward Jerijian and IIS Senior Fellow Emile Hokeyem analyze how the October 7th attacks successfully recentered the Palestinian cause while triggering a broader regional conflict involving Iran-aligned groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Experts warn that although Hamas has achieved its goal of ending the marginalization of Palestine, Israel remains committed to its military destruction while facing significant risks of miscalculation due to Hezbollah's involvement and disruptions to global oil flows. The prevailing consensus identifies a two-state solution as the only viable long-term resolution, yet current Israeli political constraints and the absence of credible Palestinian leadership render such a framework impossible in the immediate future.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
M&A in 2024: Navigating opportunities and challenges
Stephan Feldgoise, Mark Sorrell, Allison Nathan
Following a 2023 period defined by valuation misalignments and high interest rates, the M&A market is experiencing a surge in dialogue and specific sector activity driven by resilient natural resources, healthcare, and stable industrial performance. While private equity deal volume has contracted due to financing costs, corporate buyers have maintained robust activity and public-to-private transactions have reached record levels to address pressure on portfolio monetization. Looking ahead to 2024, experts anticipate a normalization of interest rates and reduced inflation will catalyze a rebound in technology deals and strategic spinoffs, with international activity expected to trail the US market by several months.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
What China’s struggling property sector means for the global economy and markets
Kenneth Ho, Hui Shan, Yi Wang, Alison Nathan, Ken Ho
With China's property sector accounting for 30% of national GDP, the market correction since 2021 has triggered a liquidity crisis affecting roughly 70% of top developers and suppressed GDP growth by 1.5 percentage points in 2023. Despite outstanding debt reaching $8.4 trillion, Goldman Sachs analysts and the People's Bank of China argue that systemic banking collapse remains unlikely due to lower household leverage and distinct structural differences from the 2008 U.S. subprime crisis. However, resolving the crisis requires a strategic pivot toward managing secondary market oversupply and restoring consumer confidence, as current easing measures have failed to address the fundamental mismatch between developer inventory and urban purchasing power.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Why the global economy and markets can continue to outperform in 2024
Jan Hatzius, Dominic Wilson, Alison Nathan
Goldman Sachs reports that the global economy outperformed 2023 forecasts, with the U.S. avoiding recession through post-pandemic normalization while equity markets mispriced resilience against aggressive rate hikes. Looking ahead to 2024, the firm projects modest global growth and declining inflation, predicting that risky assets like equities and commodities will outperform cash as central banks approach a peak in policy rates before gradual cuts begin in the second half of the year. Despite elevated long-term interest rates and geopolitical risks such as Middle East tensions, the investment strategy emphasizes a shift toward diversified portfolios to capitalize on AI-driven earnings and supply-side commodity pressures.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Is US outperformance at a turning point?
Rebecca Patterson, Jean Boivin, Peter Oppenheimer, Alison Nathan
Bridgewater's Rebecca Patterson, BlackRock's Jean Boivin, and Goldman Sachs' Peter Oppenheimer debated the durability of U.S. equities, contrasting the bull case for AI-driven productivity against bearish concerns regarding aging demographics and geopolitical shifts. While Patterson advocates for maintaining a U.S. overweight based on structural technological advantages, Oppenheimer suggests narrowing profit differentials warrant regional diversification. Ultimately, the consensus highlights a transition from broad index outperformance to selective alpha generation, with Boivin recommending strategic caution in public equities in favor of government debt and thematic private credit opportunities.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
Unlocking the AI M&A Supercycle
Jung Min, Matt Lucas, Allison Nathan
Goldman Sachs' latest analysis characterizes the current generative AI boom as a transformative, economy-wide shift driven by chat interfaces and algorithmic leaps, while noting that widespread enterprise adoption remains in a nascent phase. Investment capital is currently concentrated on infrastructure components like semiconductors and data centers, leading to a shift in public market valuations toward tangible results rather than speculation. Although acquisition activity is temporarily constrained by strategic uncertainty, future M&A waves and significant economic productivity gains are projected to emerge once regulatory frameworks stabilize and enterprise spending matures over the coming decade.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Commercial real estate risks
Scott Rechler, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Alison Nathan, Sten van Nuremberg
Distinguished voices Scott Reckler and Sten van Nieuwerberg diverge on the severity of the commercial real estate crisis, with Reckler predicting a bifurcated market and slow stabilization by 2025 while van Nieuwerberg argues for a structural decline affecting even premium assets. Both experts warn that $2.6 trillion in maturing loans and restrictive lending standards will trigger a "train wreck in slow motion" forcing the conversion of obsolete office space, though physical constraints limit viable housing transitions to a small fraction of the stock. Consequently, regional banks face severe distress as asset values plummet 40–60%, potentially wiping out equity and precipitating a banking consolidation comparable to the 1980s S&L crisis or a mild recession driven by a credit crunch.
- Goldman Sachs15 min
Emerging market equities poised to overtake developed market equities
Presentations by financial strategists project a structural shift where emerging market equity capitalization rises to 55% of the global total by 2075, driven primarily by the transition of private assets to public markets and sustained GDP growth in nations like India and China. While demographic shifts and potential protectionism pose risks, the long-term outlook favors diversifying away from US exceptionalism toward a globally balanced portfolio to capture higher earnings growth and rising valuation multiples. This strategic pivot anticipates that seven of the ten largest economies in 2075 will be current emerging markets, fundamentally altering the landscape of global investment returns.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Briogeo founder Twine says “internal resiliency” is entrepreneurs’ shared superpower
Nancy Twine founded the clean beauty brand Briogeo in 2012 after leaving Goldman Sachs, leveraging her mother's chemistry background to secure an early partnership with Sephora before raising over $20 million in private equity. Driven by a strategic focus on the untapped salon professional channel, Twine sold the company to Wella in 2022 following a rigorous acquisition process that capitalized on the brand's established "table stakes" clean formulation standards. Since the exit, Twine has shifted her focus to mentoring founders through her content platform and serving on the board of "Room to Grow" to address financial education and industry diversity gaps.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
How companies, private equity firms, and institutional investors are navigating the global economy
Goldman Sachs executive Jim Esposito outlines a global economic landscape marked by regional divergence, shifting private equity dynamics, and a pivot from "hard landing" fears to a "soft landing" consensus. While corporate balance sheets are historically strong and commodity prices signal recovery, the event highlights persistent risks stemming from geopolitical fragmentation, an anemic IPO market, and liquidity concerns within the unregulated non-bank sector. Esposito anticipates that despite these challenges and an approaching U.S. election, the financial system remains resilient due to post-2008 regulatory safeguards and continued private sector innovation.
- Goldman Sachs41 min
A conversation with Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown
Peter Brown pioneered early generative AI and the Deep Blue chess machine at IBM before co-founding Renaissance Technologies' dominant quantitative trading strategy, where he served as sole CEO following a 2009 succession. Under his technical leadership, the firm transformed its operations by replacing manual processes with rigorous engineering and automated systems, allowing it to navigate major financial crises like the 2007 Quant Quake and 2008 collapse while maintaining strict scientific discipline. Brown's career trajectory illustrates a consistent philosophy that complex market dynamics and human intuition can be effectively reduced to computation and data-driven models.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Normalizing inflation: are ‘hard yards’ ahead?
Ashok Varadhan, Sam Grobart, Ashok Singhala
Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzihas lowered the U.S. recession probability to 15% as disinflation approaches 2%, yet the firm warns that the final steps to this target may require restrictive policy rather than natural market cooling. While investment-grade corporate debt remains resilient due to pandemic-era fixed-rate lock-ins, rising costs are projected to isolate distress within lower-quality credit segments. The economic outlook currently hinges on whether the Federal Reserve can achieve its 2% inflation goal via "gravity" without triggering the severe market turbulence associated with draconian intervention.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
NBA star Chris Paul says leadership is about building trust on and off the court
Following the Juneteenth observance, 18-year NBA veteran Chris Paul discussed his memoir "61: Life Lessons from Papa" and his eight-year tenure as NBAPA president during an interview hosted by Goldman Sachs' Firmwide Black Network. The conversation detailed Paul's response to his grandfather's murder, his strategic evolution from a vertical scorer to a point guard, and his advocacy for HBCUs and underrepresented storytelling through his production company, ODIP. Paul emphasized that his leadership philosophy prioritizes direct communication and collective action over personal likability, reflecting his ongoing commitment to competitive play and social equity.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
How Angela Hwang helped lead Pfizer through the unknowns of Covid to deliver a vaccine
Angela Huang, Pfizer's Chief Commercial Officer, detailed the "Project BioSpeed" initiative that accelerated the development of the company's COVID-19 vaccine to approximately nine months through parallel development and a "fixed goal, flexible process" framework. Under her leadership, which spans 26,000 colleagues across 185 countries, the organization scaled annual manufacturing capacity from 200 million to over one billion doses while enforcing a mandatory 30% minority representation in clinical trials. The presentation highlighted how this crisis-driven collaboration required admitting uncertainty and failing fast without altering the final deadline, offering a model for translating high-stakes innovation into standard business operations.