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Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
In the midst of ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, we take a moment to turn our minds to a topic that affects us all and waits for nobody: taxes. To prepare you for 2026 and beyond, Devin Ekberg joins Greg Hall to discuss tax changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and potential pitfalls to avoid. Between deep dives on SALT deduction phaseouts and the potential stackable tax benefits of muni and real estate investments, Devin finds a way to compare tax planning to Van Halen and Brown M&Ms.
In a world of intensified uncertainty and dispersion, investing becomes less about forecasting and more about favoring more liquid, high quality assets that can be resilient across a variety of scenarios.
Efforts to make private credit tradable face obstacles and risk undermining one of the main reasons – earning an illiquidity premium – that investors look to private assets.
Lately, private credit has attracted its share of grim headlines, but as Lotfi Karoui — PIMCO Managing Director, Multi Asset Credit Strategist and Co Head of Client Solutions and Analytics — points out, many recent developments in the space should be seen as expected features of a cyclical credit market. In his debut appearance on Accrued Interest, Lotfi and host Greg Hall dig into the private credit story: from direct lending’s emergence after the Great Financial Crisis, to its explosive growth post-COVID, and what we can expect in the future as investor expectations realign to actual opportunities and risks. They also explore diversification options within the private credit landscape, including asset-based finance (ABF) and real estate. Join us in welcoming Lotfi to PIMCO and Accrued Interest.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
What began as an uncertain year has only grown more unpredictable, with conflict in the Middle East and stress across credit rattling the broader markets. Christian Stracke, PIMCO’s President and Head of APAC and EMEA, joins Accrued Interest to lay out a framework for investing when uncertainty and volatility are features, not the exception. Together, he and host Greg Hall get into the ripple effects that the latest geopolitical shocks could have on oil prices, inflation and global markets—and why there’s “a crisis of confidence” in some, not all, parts of private credit.
Tax rules are changing – and after-tax outcomes matter more than ever. Watch as Devin Ekberg dives into how thoughtful active muni positioning may help your clients keep more of what they earn.
In this brief update, Marc Seidner, CIO of non-traditional strategies, shares how we're managing risk amid rising geopolitical uncertainty, and why today's higher yields and active management can help bonds serve as a cushion against volatility.
Even as the direct lending sector faces scrutiny, private credit remains a broadly diversified market offering a variety of investable opportunities.
Macro Signposts highlights takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.
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.
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