It was a pleasure talking with Schwab's Chief Investment Officer, Liz Ann Sonders.

Find out from Schwab’s Chief Investment Strategist what’s happening in today’s market and what it could mean for your investments. From discussing the Federal Reserve’s influence on U.S. equities to the risk and impacts of inflation and COVID variants, Liz Ann will explain the forces we are seeing in the markets today, where we are in the U.S. economic cycle, and what it all may mean for investors in the coming months.

Liz Ann Sonders
Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist
As Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, Liz Ann has a range of investment strategy responsibilities, from market and economic analysis to investor education, all focused on the individual investor.

A keynote speaker at numerous industry conferences, Liz Ann is regularly quoted in financial publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron’s, and the Financial Times, and she appears as a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Yahoo! Finance and Fox Business News programs. Liz Ann has been named “Best Market Strategist” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and one of SmartMoney magazine’s “Power 30.” Barron’s has named her to its “100 Most Influential Women in Finance” list and Investment Advisor has included her on the “IA 25,” its list of the 25 most important people in and around the financial advisory profession.

In 1999, Liz Ann joined U.S. Trust—which was acquired by Schwab in 2000—as a managing director and member of its Investment Policy Committee. Previously, Liz Ann was a managing director and senior portfolio manager at Avatar Associates, an original division of the Zweig/Avatar Group.