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The volatile start to 2021—with some heavily-shorted stocks unexpectedly skyrocketing in late January—seemed to have subsided. But with some of these stocks again on the rise, we ask what factors caused this volatility, how likely it is to repeat, what could prevent this, and what it signals about, or for, markets. Allison Nathan, creator and editor of the firm’s Top of Mind report, turns to former SEC Chair Arthur Levitt, Wellington’s Owen Lamont, and Goldman Sachs’ co-head of Global Prime Services, Kevin Kelly, for answers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paget MacColl, co-head of the Americas Institutional Client Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, shares takeaways from GSAM’s annual healthcare diagnostic, which surveys CIOs of nonprofit healthcare organizations and hospital systems. MacColl is joined by Stefan Strein, chief investment officer for the Cleveland Clinic, who talks about managing a portfolio through a public health crisis and why he’s particularly excited about the investment opportunities in tech and ESG.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To start the episode, Joe Wall of Goldman Sachs’ Office of Government Affairs gives an overview of survey results from nearly 1,300 Goldman Sachs Small Businesses participants who answered questions about PPP funding, access to capital, affordable healthcare, the personal toll of COVID-19, and more. Then, two graduates of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, Brent Reaves of Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que in Texas and JoEllen Hockenbrough of Providence Power Yoga in Rhode Island, share their personal stories about leading a business through a pandemic and how they’re staying resilient and optimistic looking toward the future.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kash Rangan, lead software analyst for Goldman Sachs Research, talks about how the pandemic has accelerated investment in the software sector and the key opportunities that lie ahead.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs’ chief global equity strategist and head of Macro Research in Europe, talks about why the changing mix of policy support in this cycle suggests a possible inflection point towards a more reflationary environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephan Feldgoise and Mark Sorrell, co-heads of global mergers & acquisitions in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division, discuss the key drivers behind historic levels of M&A activity, their positive outlook for dealmaking in 2021, and the resurgence of cross-border transactions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catie O’Brien of Goldman Sachs Research talks about her outlook for the airline industry in 2021 and why her team is forecasting an uptick in demand in the second half of the year.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Chief Investment Officer for Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, discusses her team’s investment outlook for 2021 and why she is telling clients to stay invested. “Our recommendation of US preeminence and staying invested has served our clients well,” Mossavar-Rahmani says. “People might think that those two themes have outlived their value, and our message is, no, continue with that theme.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Duran, head of Personal Financial Management, a Goldman Sachs company, discusses the rise in retail investing and what it means for individual investors’ portfolio strategies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode, four leaders across Goldman Sachs—Raj Mahajan of the Global Markets Division, John Marshall of Goldman Sachs Research, Lizzie Reed of the Investment Banking Division, and Greg Tuorto of Goldman Sachs Asset Management— discuss the historic rise of retail investing and its profound implications for market participants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices