Fixed Income’s Role in a Portfolio

December 13, 2017

Matt Freund, Co-CIO, Head of Fixed Income Strategies, Senior Co-Portfolio Manager, says investors need to remember these three reasons to own fixed income: the asset needs to be cheap, provide needed income or serve as a hedge against other positions in a portfolio.

Transcript

Video recorded 11/30/2017.

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