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Hard Lessons: Dan Ivascyn: Conviction Needs Capital

The episode offers a senior fixed income manager's account of conviction, timing and capital during a crisis, framed around mortgage-backed securities positioning and risk-taking through the recovery.

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Dan Ivascyn, Group Chief Investment Officer at PIMCO, joins Morgan Stanley Co-President Dan Simkowitz on Morgan Stanley's Hard Lessons to discuss his experiences during the global financial crisis. The conversation covers an early underweight on mortgage-backed securities that he describes as the right call at the wrong time, and how he ultimately benefited from taking on risk as markets recovered.

  1. Ivascyn discusses his experiences during the global financial crisis.
  2. An early underweight on mortgage-backed securities was described as the right call at the wrong time.
  3. He ultimately benefited from taking on risk as markets recovered.
  4. The episode is part of Morgan Stanley's Hard Lessons series.

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