Steve Wieting

Steven Wieting is Managing Director and Citi Private Bank’s Global Chief Investment Strategist, responsible for formulating investment views and strategies on a macro basis and across asset classes. A member of Citi Private Bank’s Investments Leadership team, Steven is also Chairman of the Global Investment Committee whichsets the asset allocation for Citi Private Bank clients.  Prior to his appointment as CPB’s Chief Strategist in early 2013, Steven served as Citi Investment Research’s lead economist for the US institutional equities business from 2000 to early 2013. Based in New York, he was responsible for advising the firm’s institutional and government clients globally on macroeconomic developments, forecasts and policy analysis. Steven has published extensively on demographic and policy challenges with a focus on the implications for long-term asset market performance.  During his time at Citi, Steven has examined credit, commodity and foreign exchange market influences while providing the firm’s corporate earnings forecasts and macro level equity market insights. He was also economic advisor to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Investment Committee until early 2013 and was a voting member of predecessor Asset Allocation Committees at Citi.  Prior to joining Smith Barney in 1996, Steven was an economics correspondent with Dow Jones, where he followed financial markets, economic forecasts and reported on the views of the Federal Reserve policymakers. He also served as a contributor to The Wall Street Journal’s “Credit Markets” column. Previously, Steven worked for the US Department of Commerce. Steven received an M.S. in Quantitative Economics at Baruch College. He also has acquired credits toward a Ph.D. in Economics at the City University Graduate Center.