Event Details

17 January, Zoom, 9am PT / 5pm GMT

A Zoom presentation by a senior member of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Strategy Group to share their global macro expectations and recommendations for the year ahead.

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​Matt Weir is a senior member of the Investment Strategy Group (ISG), which advises ultra-high net worth and institutional investors on asset allocation. In this role, he helps develop ISG’s investment recommendations and its economic and financial market outlook, with a primary focus on equity markets. Prior to moving to San Francisco in 2021, Matt was based in New York where he held other leadership positions in ISG, including chief operating officer. Matt initially joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 as an analyst in the Global Investment Research Division, covering companies in the US consumer sector. He transferred to ISG in 2006 and was named managing director in 2012. Matt is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the University of Southern California’s endowment and a member of the Board of Councilors for the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Matt earned a BA in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Southern California in 2003.

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​Graham leads a PWM team in San Francisco. He has over 20 years of investment experience and has worked in Asia, Europe, and the US. He holds two patents in investment performance benchmarking and co-authored a book chapter on pension fund governance (Cambridge University Press) and an academic paper on investment decision making (Review of Behavioral Finance). Prior to GS, he led DCisions, a performance benchmarking firm, which won the European Pensions 2011 Innovation and 2009 Technology Awards and launched a multi-asset index for pension funds in partnership with FTSE. He is a Research Affiliate in Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford and chairs the Finance Committee at Mount Tamalpais School. Previously he worked at UBS (01-05) and in McKinsey’s asset management practice (98-01). He earned an MBA (Distinction) from London Business School, was recognized on the Director’s List at Wharton, and holds a BA in Economics from Exeter.