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Join Beverly Goodman, editorial director, Investing & Asset Management and Sonal Desai, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief investment officer of the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group for a discussion on inflations, what’s worrying or not worrying and what are bond yields telling us.

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Beverly Goodman
Editorial Director, Investing & Asset Management
Beverly Goodman is Editorial Director of Investing and Asset Management for Barron’s and the Dow Jones Wealth and Asset Management (W&AM) group. She oversees Barron’s coverage of investing, personal finance, and retirement issues and strategies, as well as the asset management industry. She is the editorial lead for W&AM's coverage of the financial advisor industry, overseeing special sections and providing editorial support for conferences and other projects. Prior to joining Barron’s, Goodman was Managing Editor for Fidelity.com, a role that led to becoming an internal consultant, taking the lead on a variety of customer-facing editorial projects. Before Fidelity, Goodman ran Smart Money’s investing coverage; TheStreet.com’s mutual funds, personal finance, and tax coverage; covered the public markets for Red Herring; and retirement and tax policy for Money Magazine.
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Sonal Desai, PH.D
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group
Sonal Desai, Ph.D. is the executive vice president and chief investment officer for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. Dr. Desai is responsible for overseeing Franklin's Municipal, Corporate Credit, Floating Rate, Multisector, Global (including Emerging Markets), and Money Market Fixed Income teams. She is also a portfolio manager for a number of strategies, including Core Plus, Strategic Income, Total Return, Low Duration, Global Absolute Return, and Global Aggregate Fixed Income.

She is a member of Franklin Resources' Executive Committee, a small group of the company's top leaders responsible for shaping the firm's overall strategy. In addition, she serves on the firm's Management and Investment Committees.

Prior to her current role, she served as a portfolio manager with Dr. Michael Hasenstab for the flagship Templeton Global Bond and Templeton Global Total Return strategies, as well as director of research for Templeton Global Macro, shaping the team's research agenda of in-depth global macroeconomic analysis covering thematic topics, regional and country analyses, and interest rate, currency and sovereign credit market outlooks. She started her career as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, and then worked for over six years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Following this, she joined the private financial sector and worked for about five years as director and senior economist for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London. Dr. Desai joined Franklin Templeton in 2009 from Thames River Capital in London.

Dr. Desai holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Delhi University and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. She was part of the Templeton Global Bond Fund portfolio management team named Morningstar's Fixed Income Manager of the Year in Canada in 2013.
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