The Behavioral Science Edge
Partnerships
Our long-term, collaborative partnership with the Roman Family Center for Decision Research (RF-CDR) at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business began in 2018, and continues to grow.
Our Partnership with the Roman Family Center for Decision Research (RF-CDR)
Through our innovative partnership with The Roman Family Center for Decision Research at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, we are committed to supporting diverse and robust research that contributes to a deeper understanding of human behavior and decision-making and helps empower leaders to make wiser choices in business and society.
Understanding how we behave and the decisions we make are critical to building on PIMCO’s strong culture of investing excellence and creating a diverse, engaging workplace, so we are excited to partner on this groundbreaking approach.
– Emmanuel Roman
PIMCO is always looking for inputs and data which challenge our ideas and assumptions about investing and risk and the RF-CDR team can provide us world-class insight into behavioral analysis and trends which will make us a better active manager and stewards of our clients’ assets.
– Daniel J. Ivascyn
PIMCO Decision Research Laboratories: a Partnership of Academic and Investment Excellence
Through our partnership with RF-CDR, we advanced PIMCO Decision Research Labs, enabling RF-CDR researchers, leaders in their field, to further their research.
The PIMCO Midway Club
Behavioral Insights
We publish behavioral insights and best practices to help our clients better understand the value it delivers and assist them in enhancing their own decision-making processes.
With yields across high quality fixed income offering a meaningful valuation cushion, this excerpt from our quarterly Income update explores the role of starting yields, quality, liquidity, and global diversification in shaping a more resilient approach to fixed income.
Energy shocks, private credit stress, and AI disruption are changing expectations for rates and risk. Marc Seidner, CIO non-traditional strategies, explains how we’re approaching portfolio construction now.
Higher starting yields help anchor portfolios as uncertainty across markets and the global economy rises.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
How equity and credit investors are reassessing BDC valuations differently – and why high yield defaults continue to play out primarily through distressed exchanges.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
Strategies to strengthen and diversify portfolios need to adapt to a world where geopolitical risk is a feature rather than a bug.
The software sector remains challenged by pressured valuations, uncertain recoveries, and less reliable sponsor support.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
Group CIO Dan Ivascyn and portfolio manager Jason Steiner discuss how post global financial crisis conservatism, locked in mortgage rates, and shifting policy priorities are driving consumer lending opportunities today.
Markets may be pricing some relief for now, but the true measure of an oil shock is how long it endures.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.