Vishal Khanduja on Inside Active by Bloomberg Intelligence

May 27, 2025

Vishal Khanduja on Inside Active by Bloomberg Intelligence

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Vishal Khanduja on Inside Active by Bloomberg Intelligence

May 27, 2025

Vishal Khanduja, head of Broad Markets Fixed Income, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and portfolio manager of Eaton Vance Total Return Bond Fund (EIBAX) and Eaton Vance Total Return Bond ETF (EVTR) joined Inside Active hosts David Cohne and Sam Geier to discuss the team’s three pillars for bond selection, their focus on seeking maximized return with benchmark-level risk, how they look for inefficiencies within fallen angels and opportunities in rising stars and how that plays out in their bottom-up, value driven investment philosophy.

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According to Vishal Khanduja, “When we look at investment opportunities, it’s the fundamentals we are digging through – whether it is a corporate balance sheet or a consumer balance sheet or even a country or a municipality’s balance sheet – the understanding the fundamentals is the first, important step in our investment process.”

Vishal Khanduja

Head of Broad Markets Fixed Income

Broad Markets Fixed Income Team

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