Longtime fund manager lays out surprising S&P 500 target for 2026 Todd Campbell Mon, January 5, 2026 at 1:21 AM GMT+5:30 6 min read Louis Navellier has seen a thing or two since he began navigating the stock market in the 1980s. Navellier, the founder of Navellier & Associates, a firm with about $1 billion in assets under management, has managed money through the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, the internet boom and bust, the Great Recession, the Covid pandemic, and 2022's bear market. Over the years, he learned valuable lessons about what causes stocks to rise or fall — a knowledge that correctly kept him bullish in 2025 while others worried over tariffs, geopolitics, and a boxed-in Fed.