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ESTEBAN BURBANO: We talk about a macro environment with relatively strong growth, relatively managed inflation. It would seem like a very attractive investment environment, one that income has used to deliver a strong outcome, not just in 2026, but we hope so going forward.
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As we look ahead on 2026 how will you summarize the positioning of the portfolio from a, interest rate risk perspective, a credit risk perspective, or overall risk taking perspective?
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DAN IVASCYN: Yeah. Well, we talked a little bit about the macro environment earlier and I think what's always important is to look at your macro outlook relative to what's being priced into markets. So the problem with the current setup at least as it relates to certain sectors of the market, is that there's a lot of optimism embedded in stock market valuations, credit spreads, particularly corporate credit spreads which are trading near all-time tights.
So from the income strategies perspective, what we're trying to do is to take advantage of a diversified portfolio, maintain as much liquidity and what liquidity means is future flexibility and to insulate the portfolio from extreme economic sensitivity, where spreads again are quite tight when you're not getting paid a lot to take those types of risks.
So our overall philosophy is not too different than where we were at the start of the year. We want to use, again, all the tools of the PIMCO toolkit, a global opportunity set, an up in quality bias to generate attractive yields in a diversified, in a creative, and a resilient fashion. And what that means is continued underweight to corporate credit, particularly some of the more economically sensitive areas of the market.
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Things like senior secured bank loans, some of the riskier areas of the less liquid credit markets, even private credit markets and up in quality focus looking to buy assets backed by middle income and higher income households in the United States to a slightly lesser degree in the UK and in Europe, then take advantage of other higher quality areas of the market in some cases, you know, with some pretty solid technical tailwinds, agency mortgage backed securities, other high quality even triple A rated structured products.
High quality inflation protected assets sourced in the United States, and a few other, you know, key areas around the world. Exposures to sovereign credits higher quality emerging market type assets, higher quality areas of the developed world where you have a very strong fiscal picture in some cases, even higher yields than you can source in the United States despite more economic fragility in those economies.
So again, the key theme is diversification up in quality, up in overall flexibility or liquidity while standing poised to react to what we think will be a series of attractive special situation type investments, some unique, you know, bottoms up type sources of yield and return as the year progresses.
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