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Jul 24
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Franklin Templeton's Sonal Desai on Fixe...

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Barry speaks with Sonal Desai, executive vice president and chief investment officer for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. She directly manages $215 billion in assets. A native of India, Desai earned a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and briefly taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She then spent six years with the International Monetary Fund before entering the private sector as a director and senior economist for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London and then at Thames River Capital.

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