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Podcast: Octus Radio
Episode: How Mackay Shields MD David Dowden Maximizes Income For Shareholders
Description: David Dowden, managing director at Mackay Shields, discusses with Seth Brumby, Deputy Managing Editor at Reorg, how to generate income for municipal portfolios following recent bouts of volatility in this week’s podcast.
Fixed income portfolios struggled for over a decade with a secular decline in interest rates, which reduced income for bondholders. This was followed by a meteoric rise in inflation and interest rates that hammered bond values. This was an opportunity to accrue tax swaps that can be applied toward future tax liabilities once the bond market rallied and produced better income generating investments.
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