Steve Govoni

Steve Govoni is a Senior Financial Writer-Market Analyst with Lord Abbett, an 85-year-old money management firm based in Jersey City. Before moving to the “buy side,” Steve worked as a supervisory analyst for Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Lehman Brothers. During his journalism career, he was executive editor of Financial World, a story editor at The New York Times, and a senior editor at Corporate Finance magazines. As a newspaper reporter, he received a number of prizes, including a Deadline Award for exposing the fraudulent collapse of trucking companies in New York in New Jersey. He was also the founding president of the Connecticut Center for Patient Safety and received a public service award from the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. A graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics & Business Journalism, Steve recently started his third stint on the board of the New York Financial Writers Association, where he is also the official photographer.