PhD economist Dan Roberts, Portfolio Manager of the award winning MainStay Unconstrained Bond Fund, didn’t start out on Wall Street. Early in his career he served at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at The White House with the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and was Executive Director of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. […]
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VOTAVA: HEALTHY CAREER
Talk about identifying a need and filling it! Katy Votava is a registered nurse with a PhD in health economics and nursing. How do you turn that combination of credentials into a business? She explains how she created her healthcare consulting firm, GoodCare.com. Watch the related WEALTHTRACK episode.
ROLLEY: LEFT BRAIN / RIGHT BRAIN
Loomis Sayles’ David Rolley has been overseeing global bond and emerging market portfolios and research for more than three decades. What he does in his spare time has little to do with his left brain, business skills and everything to do with his right brain, creative side. Watch the related WEALTHTRACK episode.
McCULLEY: WORK/LIFE BALANCE
Legendary bond trader, Federal Reserve watcher and economist, Paul McCulley spent many years in the top ranks of bond giant PIMCO before retiring in 2010 in search of a work/life balance. He returned to PIMCO as Chief Economist for a few months in 2014. We asked him about his latest departure, his current interests, and […]
AHAMED: RISING RATE RISKS
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Liaquat Ahamed was a bond manager, Chief Investment Office and CEO of a fixed income management firm long before he wrote Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. We asked him for his views of the bond markets today, especially considering the Federal Reserve’s long anticipated interest rate hike. […]
SMITH: JESUIT EDUCATION
Stephen Smith, founding portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunities Bond fund and finalist for Morningstar’s 2014 Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year is known as a contrarian investor. Smith takes on consensus views about oil prices, interest rates and the outlook for global growth. What difference did a Jesuit education, specifically at […]