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.
Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida charts key signals for interest rates and the economy – and what they could mean for investors.
Tariffs, Technology, and Transition
Locking in attractive bond yields can support long-term returns, especially as central banks cut interest rates and tariff effects pose risks to global economic growth and inflation.
The Federal Reserve cited increasing risks to the U.S. labor market as a reason to ease monetary policy.
Mortgage bond reinvestment could be the Federal Reserve’s most effective and immediate tool to unlock the housing market – without even touching interest rates.
Group CIO Dan Ivascyn discusses how investors should examine liquidity and economic sensitivity across public and private markets.
Investors should approach private investment grade (IG) credit with a focus on risk-adjusted returns versus liquid IG, while seeking to maintain a core IG trait: limited impairment risk.
Flexing Into Global Fixed Income
Group CIO Dan Ivascyn discusses valuation advantages, U.S. dollar dynamics, and why alpha opportunities remain plentiful in a globally diversified, flexible approach.
Group CIO Dan Ivascyn discusses how looming Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and continued policy uncertainty are shaping PIMCO’s investment playbook at a time of abundant fixed income opportunities.
In Jackson Hole, Chair Powell Hints at Near-Term Rate Cuts and Reiterates Long-Term Approach
The Federal Reserve notes the balance of risks to the U.S. economy may warrant a shift in policy stance – in other words, a rate cut.
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