Jim Bianco
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Jim Bianco earns The Navigator by charting a deliberate course through a macroeconomic regime shift that others are slow to accept. He does more than flag danger, he redraws the map itself, rejecting 60/40 orthodoxy and naming specific problem children in fixed income with the precision of someone reading currents before they surface. His leadership is positional at its core: know where you are, register what has changed, then move accordingly.
“The era of zero interest rates and quantitative easing is dead. If nominal growth is running five or six percent, you should have five or six percent interest rates.”
“In fixed income, your biggest weightings are your over-levered companies and countries that have borrowed too much money — your problem children. You can recognize them and avoid them.”
“This is not the 2010 to 2020 period where all you needed was sixty percent in stocks, forty in bonds. I don't think the next decade is going to be quite like that.”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment”
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