Meredith Whitney Biography | Wiki
Meredith Whitney ( Full Name: Meredith Ann Whitney ) is a popular American businesswoman who is the founder and CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group. She is also the Board Member of Enhanced Investment Products and an Advisory Board Member of Payne Institute for Public Policy. Since March 2022, Meredith is the Advisory Board Member of Kindbody where she was previously Chief Financial Officer.
She was named by Bloomberg “The Oracle of Wall Street”. From 2019 to 2020, Meredith worked as the Chief Financial Officer of Zume Inc. From 2015 to 2019, she was an SVP for Arch Insurance Group Inc. Meredith was a Managing Director at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. She started as a Senior Analyst at CIBC U.S. In 2013, Meredith de-registered MWAG and began her own hedge fund, Kenbelle Capital LP. In December 2015, Meredith joined Bermudan insurer Arch Capital Group as a manager overseeing outside investment firms.
Meredith Whitney Age
Meredith was born on November 20, 1969, in Summit, New Jersey, in the United States. She is 54 years old. Meredith celebrates her birthday on November 20, every year.
Meredith Whitney Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Meredith stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in ( Approx. 1.7m ).
Meredith Whitney Family
She was born in Summit, New Jersey, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Meredith is the daughter of Barbara Gentry of Key West and Richard P. Whitney of Annapolis, Md. Meredith is also a stepdaughter of Chisholm Gentry. Her mother retired as an executive recruiter in Washington while her stepfather was a former freelance writer.
Meredith Whitney Husband
Meredith is married to her husband John Layfield, a former professional wrestler and football player who is now signed to WWE, where he serves as an ambassador for the company. John is also a financial analyst and is featured frequently on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. The two met in 2003 when they were panelists on “Bulls & Bears,” a Fox News program, and were seated next to each other at dinner later. Meredith and John married on February 12, 2005, in Key West, Florida.
Meredith Whitney Education
She studied at Madeira School and graduated in 1987, prior to attending a post-graduate year at Lawrenceville School, becoming one of its first co-ed graduating class. In 1992 Meredith also graduated with honors from Brown University earning a B.A. in History.
Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
She came to Oppenheimer Holdings in 1993 as a Director, and in 1995 Meredith joined the company’s Specialty Finance Group. In 1998, Meredith left Oppenheimer to work as an Executive Director at Wachovia. She came back to Oppenheimer in 2004, where she researched banks and brokers as a Managing Director.
Meredith left Oppenheimer on February 19, 2009, to establish her own firm, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group (MWAG), where she produced company-specific equity research on financial institutions as well as analyzed the sector’s operating environment. Customers include institutional investors, individual investors, corporations, and governments.
Meredith Whitney Municipal Bonds
On December 19, 2010, during an interview on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, Meredith said that 50 to 100 counties, cities, and towns in the United States would have “significant” municipal bond nonpayment totaling “hundreds of billions” of dollars, and that “it’ll be something to be concerned about within the following one year.” Since the record amount of municipal bond blunders in a year was just more than $8 billion at the time, Meredith’s comments about hundreds of billions in defaults shortly shook the market and drew a great deal of attention, much of it critical.
Meredith Whitney Kindbody
From 2021 to 2022 Meredith worked as CFO of Kindbody, a high-growth health and technology company. In March 2022, Meredith started working as an Advisory Board Member at Kindbody.
Meredith Whitney Hedge Fund
In 2013, Meredith de-registered MWAG and began her own hedge fund, Kenbelle Capital LP. She, whose bearish calls on financial stocks ahead of the credit crisis turned Meredith into one of the most popular analysts on Wall Street, has deregistered her eponymous brokerage firm and plans to launch a hedge fund.
Meredith Whitney Housing
Meredith said the US housing market benefited from having less leverage than it did in 2007, having the average US homeowner owning a mortgage that is just 30 per cent of the value of their house. That meant few homebuyers will find themselves in a situation where they owe over their house is worth, and either be forced to market or go into foreclosure.
Meredith Whitney 60 Minutes Interview
She had an interview on the CBS television program 60 Minutes on December 19, 2010. In the interview, Meredith said that 50 to 100 counties, cities, and towns in the United States would have “significant” municipal bond nonpayment totaling “hundreds of billions” of dollars, and that “it’ll be something to be concerned about within the following one year.”
Meredith Whitney Today
She is a businesswoman recognized for successfully forecasting the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and is also a financial analyst. Since March 2022, Meredith is the Advisory Board Member of Kindbody where she was previously Chief Financial Officer. As CEO she works as a strategic advisor to leading industry CEOs, pension and hedge fund managers on a global basis.
Meredith Whitney 2008
She is recognized for successfully forecasting the financial crisis of 2007 to 2008. Her extremely bearish view on banks took her on the cover of the August 18, 2008, issue of Fortune magazine. Even prior to the problems that befell Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in September, Meredith said, “It feels like I’m at the epicenter of the biggest financial crisis in history.” That year, Fortune listed Meredith among the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.
Meredith Whitney 2011
In 2011, Meredith found herself pilloried in the news media and by colleagues for predicting a calamity in municipal bonds. Critics claimed the call is overstated, but it has alarmed investors in that usually sleepy market.
Meredith Whitney Analyst
Meredith is a financial analyst. She issued a specific pessimistic, but accurate, research report on Citigroup on October 31, 2007, to which several Wall Street analysts, and the news media, paid attention.
Meredith Whitney Banks
She worked as an executive director of CIBC World Markets, part of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada, and served in New York, where she analyzed the stocks of financial institutions.
Meredith Whitney Cnbc
During her forecasting the financial crisis of 2007 to 2008 a CNBC viewer survey named Meredith as “Power Player of the Year” over Jamie Dimon, Ben Bernanke, and Hank Paulson.
Meredith Whitney Email
One can contact or email Meredith at 1(240) 243-9700 · [email protected].
Meredith Whitney Financial Times
She who once dubbed ‘The Oracle of Wall Street’, claimed the US housing market and new bank regulation will make it increasingly hard for several regional banks to survive on their own.
Meredith Whitney Latest News | News
As of 2023, Meredith predicts US housing prices will fall by about 2-3 percent at most during the next five years.
Meredith Whitney Tragedy Of The Commons
Her phrase “the tragedy of the commons” is indelibly linked to a popular 1968 article, initially published in Science magazine, by biology professor Garrett Hardin.
Meredith Whitney Zume
From 2019 to 2020, Meredith worked as the Chief Financial Officer of Zume Inc. Zume was created in 2016 and is a $2.2B Softbank-funded startup technology company that is founding a connected technology infrastructure across the entire food supply chain to develop smarter and more sustainable methods for how food is grown, produced, as well as delivered.
Meredith Whitney Net Worth
Meredith gets her wealth from her work as the founder and CEO of her Advisory Group and a Board Member of Enhanced Investment Products. Therefore, Meredith has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Meredith’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
How Old Is Meredith Whitney
Meredith is a 54-year-old who was born on November 20, 1969, in Summit, New Jersey, in the United States. Meredith celebrates her birthday on November 20, every year.
How Tall Is Meredith Whitney
Meredith is a woman of above-average stature who stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in ( Approx. 1.7m ).
Is Meredith Whitney Married
Yes, since February 12, 2005, Meredith is married to former professional wrestler and football player John Layfield. The two met in 2003 when they were panelists on “Bulls & Bears,” a Fox News program, and were seated next to each other at dinner later and married in Key West, Florida.