Meredith Whitney's Blog

Meredith Whitney is the CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC, a macro and strategy-driven investment research firm. Well followed for her core research, Ms. Whitney and her team also focus on a broad section of financials including large, small, and mid-size banks, brokers, independent commercial and consumer finance companies.

Prior to founding Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, Ms. Whitney was a Managing Director and Senior Financial Institutions Analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Throughout her tenure at Oppenheimer, Meredith was most noted for her research on the ultimate decline in home prices, the future of the US mortgage industry, and the consumer lending market, including specific focus on the credit card industry. In 2007, she wrote prolifically on the threats surrounding the weighted influence of the rating agencies on regulatory capital determinants and the risks of the monoline insurers on financial institutions. In 2006, Ms. Whitney presented to the FDIC on the U.S. consumer and the risks in the sub-prime market.