Fixed Income in Today's Volatile Climate

In this conversation, Capital Group’s head of fixed income, Mike Gitlin, addresses the recent market volatility and its root causes. He also reveals what key roles fixed income should play in an investor’s portfolio and what it means to upgrade a portfolio’s bond funds to “true core.”

This conversation was recorded February 8, 2018.

Mike has 24 years of investment industry experience and joined Capital Group in 2015. Before joining Capital, Mike was the head of fixed income and global head of trading for T. Rowe Price.

Your host Matt Miller is the policy and communications advisor for Capital Group. An author and former Washington Post columnist, Matt was co-host of the public radio program Left, Right & Center.

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