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 is on the board of the UCLA Mathematics & Finance program and on the membership committee of Q Group. She is also 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 the 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.