Pimco’s Mariappa on iterating through the Covid-19 crisis
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Sudi Mariappa, head of portfolio risk management at Pimco, has a degree in chemical engineering – training that he says has taught him to iterate until he finds a solution, rather than look for absolutes. Likewise, the lessons he has drawn from the Covid-19 crisis will lead
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