Eric Jacobson: The Entire Face of the Bond Market Has Changed

<p>Our guest this week is our colleague, Eric Jacobson. Eric is a senior principal for fixed-income strategies on Morningstar’s Manager Research team. He focuses on a variety of taxable, tax-exempt, and nontraditional managed strategies. He covers some of the key asset managers, he publishes thought leadership, and he is a member of the Morningstar Medalist Ratings Committee. Eric joined Morningstar in 1995 as a closed-end fund analyst and also had a stint on Morningstar Indexes, where he helped launch our original Bond Benchmark Suite. Before Morningstar, Eric worked at Kemper Financial Services. He is also a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p><h2>Show Notes</h2><h3>Background</h3><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jacobson-ej/" target="_blank">Bio</a></p><h3>Bond Market and Semiliquid Funds</h3><p>“<a href="https://www.morningstar.com/financial-advisors/why-bond-market-is-fertile-ground-active-management">Why the Bond Market Is Fertile Ground for Acti...