Savita Subramanian is a managing director, head of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG Research), and head of U.S. Equity & Quantitative Strategy at BofA Global Research. She is responsible for recommending U.S. sector allocations for equities and determining forecasts for the S&P 500 and other major U.S. indices, as well as developing and marketing the firm’s quantitative equity strategy to institutional and individual clients. She also leads Global Research’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts. Subramanian has been with the firm since 2001. She has been a ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor survey for the last nine years.

Prior to joining the firm, Subramanian was an analyst at Scudder Kemper Investments in New York and San Francisco. Subramanian frequently appears in television and print journalism and is a regular guest speaker at financial conferences. Subramanian is on the board of the UCLA Mathematics & Finance program, she is on the membership committee of Q Group and is a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, the Society of Quantitative Analysts and Women on Wall Street. Subramanian received a bachelor’s degree with a double major of mathematics and philosophy with honors from University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Columbia University. She remains actively involved in the Columbia Business School alumni organization.