From Assets to Alpha: David Kostin on US Equities

The introduction of low-cost AI models is raising questions about AI infrastructure and the high spending on AI by the world’s largest technology companies. In this inaugural episode of a special podcast series, AI Exchanges, Co-Hosts Allison Nathan and George Lee discuss the issues surrounding the costs of AI development and implementation, and the impact on deal-making, with Kim Posnett, global co-head of Investment Banking in Goldman Sachs’ Global Banking & Markets business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Feb 21min

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon shares his views on why he sees a “more constructive” business environment and a pickup in capital markets activity in 2025. In the latest episode of Goldman Sachs Exchanges, Solomon explains how businesses are harnessing AI for their own businesses, and how Goldman Sachs is thinking about its strategic priorities, including the growth of private credit. Date of recording: January 27, 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Jan 20min

Global bond yields have been exceptionally volatile in recent weeks. Goldman Sachs’ Jonathan Fine and George Cole explain the drivers behind that volatility and the implications for the economy and investors on Goldman Sachs Exchanges. Date of recording: January 17, 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Jan 23min

Goldman Sachs’ Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, head of the Investment Strategy Group (ISG) and chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Wealth Management, shares ISG’s 2025 outlook, Keep on Truckin’, and why the team’s long-held investment recommendations—US preeminence and staying invested—remain intact.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Jan 19min

2024 was a great year for many US investors, but will the same strategies that worked so well keep working in 2025? Christian Mueller-Glissmann, who heads asset allocation research in Goldman Sachs Research, and Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Asset Solutions Business in Goldman Sachs Asset Management, share their asset allocation outlooks for the year ahead.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Jan 23min

Financial services firms are facing one of the most constructive backdrops in years, helped by a steepening yield curve, an expected recovery in the capital markets, and a potential easing of regulations under a second Trump administration, say Goldman Sachs Research’s Richard Ramsden, business unit leader of the financials group, and Alex Blostein, who covers the asset management industry, on Goldman Sachs Exchanges. Date of recording: December 16, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Dec 202426min

The pace of mergers and acquisitions around the world gained momentum this year, and there are signs that deal-making will accelerate in 2025, say Stephan Feldgoise and Mark Sorrell, the co-heads of the global mergers and acquisitions business in Goldman Sachs Global Banking & Markets, on Goldman Sachs Exchanges.   Date of recording: December 11, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Dec 202422min

Goldman Sachs Research’s Hui Shan, chief China economist, and Peking University Guanghua School of Management’s Michael Pettis discuss just how effective China’s domestic policy stimulus will be in addressing the country’s internal and external economic challenges. This episode explores the latest Top of Mind report, “Will China’s policy stimulus be enough?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Dec 202427min