Stephen Auth

Stephen Auth is a Catholic businessman with a long career on Wall Street, first with Prudential Investments in the 1980s and 1990s and, since 2000, with Federated Hermes, where he serves as Executive Vice President and a Chief Investment Officer of Federated Global Equities, overseeing the firms’ equity and multi-asset investment activities worldwide. He is a frequent guest on Fox Business News, CNBC, and Bloomberg TV. He earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and his graduate degree at Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He has twice been profiled in Barron’s.

Steve is also an author and active Catholic evangelist, and he speaks at Catholic spiritual venues around the world. He is a member of the Regnum Christi movement and a founding member and leader of the Lumen Institute, a faith-formation and outreach program for Catholic business leaders. With his wife, Evelyn, he has led the New York City street evangelization mission for more than fifteen years, and he and his team have helped bring thousands of fallen-away Catholics back to the Faith. His book The Missionary of Wall Street (Sophia Institute Press, 2019) tells the story of that mission. His book Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God through Art and Time (Sophia Institute Press, 2022) is based on a spiritual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that he and his wife give on occasional Friday evenings; Pilgrimage became a number-one bestseller in its category on Amazon Books for several weeks, as well as the basis for a miniseries on EWTN. His book "Visions of the Divine: An Artistic Journey into the Mystery of the Eucharist" (Sophia Institute Press, 2025) helps readers understand how the Eucharist is reflected in great works of art in museums around the world.

Steve also serves on the board of the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, to which all his royalties from Visions of the Divine are directed.