Stephen is a chief economist in the Fixed Income and Derivatives Portfolio Management Group and a member of NISA’s Investment Committee. Stephen conducts analysis on the global economy, monetary and fiscal policy and interest rate markets. He is a member of the team responsible for communicating economic, market and portfolio-related information to clients and is a frequent contributor to NISA’s blog perspectives and other thought pieces.
Stephen joined NISA in 2016. Prior to NISA, he was a trader/analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he analyzed U.S. interest rate markets and helped manage the Fed’s multi-trillion dollar portfolio of Treasury securities. He has previous experience as a trader at a multi-strategy hedge fund. Stephen earned a BA in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University, an MBA from INSEAD and an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.