2023 Mid Year Outlook Webinar

July 25, 2023 – Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty, hosts Chief Investment Officer, Stuart Katz, and Head of Wealth Planning, Mallon FitzPatrick, to discuss the 1st half of 2023 and their expectations for the remainder of the year. Disclosures Investment advisory services offered through Robertson Stephens (“Robertson Stephens”), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Registration does not imply […]

Jeanette Garretty on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia

July 12, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia discussing the outlook for the US economy as the inflation rate slid to a more than two-year low. “I think most of those trends, one of the things that makes this a good report is that when you look […]

3 Questions with Robertson Stephens featuring Jeanette Garretty

March 23, 2023 – Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty, joins Chief Marketing Officer, Louis Calabrese, to discuss the recent FOMC meeting and the economic effects of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Disclosures Investment advisory services offered through Robertson Stephens (“Robertson Stephens”), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Registration does not imply any specific level of skill or training […]

Reflections on Banking

By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist March 15, 2023 – My career in finance is almost exactly coincident with the deregulation of the banking industry. The Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 allowed depository institutions a freer hand in setting depository account interest rates, partly in response to the innovation of the enormously popular CMA […]

Robertson Stephens’ Garretty Reacts to US CPI

March 15, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg to discuss the latest US CPI data and banking sector turmoil. “There’s always systemic risk when it comes to banking. It is embedded in everything that we do. But unlike 2008, we’ve got experience that these Fed officials have a great […]

Money Life with Chuck Jaffe feat. Jeanette Garretty

February 8, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Money Life to discuss the current economic outlook including ‘The odds of a soft-landing keep increasing.’ “A soft landing is certainly not going to feel like 2.5-3% economic growth and all problems are solved. So, I think that’s important to keep in […]

2023 Outlook Webinar

January 26, 2023 – Chief Economist, Jeanette Garretty, hosts Chief Investment Officer, Stuart Katz, and Head of Wealth Planning, Mallon FitzPatrick as they share their 2023 outlook. Disclosures Investment advisory services offered through Robertson Stephens (“Robertson Stephens”), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Registration does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not […]

Robertson Stephens’ Garretty on US economic outlook

January 26, 2023 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss the US economic outlook. “When one looks forward, one has to put the whole thing together and say, ‘how is this going to come through?’,” says Garretty. “ There are these layoffs – They are going to probably hit more significantly […]

Of Tortoises and Hares

As published in Wealthmanagement.com By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist Jan 1, 2023 – The last half-decade has seemed to have a certain “rush-to-get-there” quality, exemplified by high-tech unicorns, COVID frustrations, cryptocurrency dreams and Federal Reserve monetary policy. Towards the end of 2022, a change appeared to be in the offing, and 2023 is likely to […]

Consumer sentiment ‘doesn’t really track consumer spending,’ economist says

November 11, 2022 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Yahoo Finance discussing how “Consumer sentiment ‘doesn’t really track consumer spending,’ she said, “Consumer sentiment doesn’t really track consumer spending as much as you would think because what really drives it is income. And so underlying this is a concept of real […]

Jeanette Garretty on US Jobs Reports

October 6, 2022 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on Bloomberg to discuss “US Jobs Reports.” “Earnings still look attractive and so as a result, I think when it comes down to it the strength of the dollar is inherently also being derived from a very clear monetary policy – a very […]

No Recession Here, Just a Slowing, Healthy Economy

August 26, 2022 – Chief Economist and Managing Director, Jeanette Garretty appeared on TDAmeritrade Market on Close to discuss ‘No Recession Here, Just A Slowing, Healthy Economy.’ “The view is that even over the longer term when everything is fine, 2.5% is likely to be your fed fund rate,” says Garretty. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3pVfpEh