Pramol Dhawan
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A confluence of rising sovereign debt, surging AI-related corporate bond issuance, and inflation concerns has lifted 30-year yields in the U.S. and elsewhere to two-decade highs. On the heels of their very popular July episode – Old-Fashioned Bond Math for a New-Fashioned Fed – Marc Seidner and Pramol Dhawan join host Greg Hall to discuss.
A confluence of rising sovereign debt, surging AI-related corporate bond issuance, and inflation concerns has lifted 30-year yields in the U.S. and elsewhere to two-decade highs.
Under a Warsh-led Fed, with less explicit guidance and less implicit backstop, Marc Seidner and Pramol Dhawan tell host Greg Hall that bond math starts to matter again.
In the Warsh Fed's new era of two-way risk, bonds offer something rare: potential downside risk mitigation that investors get paid to hold.
The world has shifted from unipolar to multipolar, and portfolios haven't caught up. Pramol Dhawan, head of emerging markets portfolio management, explains why emerging markets sit at the intersection of higher real yields, deeper diversification, and the AI and energy themes shaping the next cycle.
In a world of high starting yields and rupturing economic alliances, investors who actively diversify across regions, sectors, and currencies can be better positioned to pursue durable returns.
When geopolitics shift from isolated economic events to consistent economic inputs, advisors need a new playbook – one built on durability and flexibility.
Strategies to strengthen and diversify portfolios need to adapt to a world where geopolitical risk is a feature rather than a bug.
Stability, calm, and order are giving way to fragmentation, volatility, and surprise. In his most recent PIMCO Perspectives, co authored with Marc Seidner, Pramol Dhawan says that this shift makes 2026 a year when investors should “expect the unexpected.” He joins host Greg Hall to explore how this new world order is reshaping markets — from the opportunities volatility can unlock in global fixed income to the evolving rebalancing between stocks and bonds. They even get into why the world is tilting toward mercantilism, though thankfully, not in a way that forces you to dust off your economics textbooks.
Surprise, rather than stability, may be the defining feature of 2026 as policy volatility reshapes markets and investment opportunities.
Mortgage bond reinvestment could be the Federal Reserve’s most effective and immediate tool to unlock the housing market – without even touching interest rates.
In this extra credit episode, PIMCO’s Marc Seidner and Pramol Dhawan sit with host Greg Hall for their Q3 PIMCO Perspectives discussion. They unpack the current market environment shaped by tariffs, a weaker US dollar, and fiscal challenges while spotlighting the value of global diversification and intermediate-duration bonds. Tune in for practical knowledge to help advisors build resilient portfolios and steer through market swings for their clients in the second half of 2025.