June is Pride Month at Allspring—a time for celebrating our LGBTQ+ employees and their allies. Maulik Bhansali, senior portfolio manager and co-head of the Core Fixed Income team, and Marilyn Johnson, senior investment content manager on Allspring’s Content Marketing team and co-lead of the firm’s LGBTQ+ Connectivity Group, discuss Maulik’s insights on intersectionality in his life and coming out professionally.

Join Kevin Johnson, CFA, head of Platform Distribution, and Christopher Lee, CFA, senior portfolio manager on the Plus Fixed Income team, as they discuss the current market environment and how adding short duration income to a portfolio may help investors find consistency through inconsistent markets.

This episode is a follow-up discussion to a previous podcast from December 2022, titled Tickling the Dragon’s Tail.

Jeff Weaver, head of Global Liquidity Solutions, and Henri Proutt, portfolio specialist for the Global Liquidity Solutions team, discuss the May 3, 2023, interest rate hike by the FOMC, or Federal Open Market Committee.

Janet Rilling, CFA, head of Plus Fixed Income, and Danny Sarnowski, portfolio specialist for Plus Fixed Income, discuss the costs investors can face as they wait for a “Goldilocks moment” to add duration to their fixed income portfolios following a period of monetary policy tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

In this special episode, Ron Cohen, head of DCIO (Defined Contribution Investment Only), speaks with Jamie Greenleaf, senior vice president for OneDigital’s Retirement + Wealth. Their conversation centers around one main question: Where are the retirement income solutions in defined contribution plans today and going forward?

George Bory, chief fixed income strategist, and Henri Proutt, portfolio specialist for the Global Liquidity Solutions team at Allspring, discuss the topics of riding the curve and isolating income across the fixed income landscape.

The banking sector, current markets, and long-term opportunities in growth stocks are topics of discussion between Tom Ognar, senior portfolio manager and managing director of the Dynamic Growth Equity team, and Jon Lagerstedt, director of Internal Sales at Allspring.

This episode features a conversation between Manju Boraiah, head of Systematic Fixed Income and Custom SMA (separately managed accounts) at Allspring, and Sean Burke, head of the Remi Specialist Group, on the topic of megatrends and, specifically, the megatrend of the massive generational wealth transfer over the next two decades.

In response to the tumultuous month for the banking sector, Randy Mangelsen and John Hockers, co-heads of Investment Analytics at Allspring, discuss the recent bank failings and the risk analysis tools they use to navigate the situation.