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What's on Russ Kinnel’s Radar?

What's on Russ Kinnel’s Radar?

Russ Kinnel: Hi, I'm Russ Kinnel, looking forward to this week's investment conference here in Chicago.

There are three panels I'm particularly looking forward to. One of them is a bond panel featuring Michael Collins of Prudential, Laird Landmann of MetWest, and Sonali Pier of PIMCO. What I'm interested in there is just the economy has been so strong--is it time for the Fed to raise rates? There seems to be a lot of questions around that, and I'd love to hear that macro perspective from the bond managers. Another one I'm interested in is a value discussion featuring David Giroux and Jean Hynes of Wellington on Friday. Value has really been left out for a number of years. Is it time for value to come back, or do managers need to be more flexible about their approach to value? Then, finally, we have an emerging-markets panel on Thursday that has Rajiv Jain, former Manager of the Year, and Richard Sneller of Baillie Gifford. Emerging markets have really lagged in this rally, but generally the idea is emerging markets are supposed to outperform in rallies. I'm curious: Does that mean they're really a good buy, or did emerging markets just miss their chance and it's not that attractive?

Anyway, those are three of the things I'm really interested in. I'm Russ Kinnel with Morningstar.

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Russel Kinnel

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Russel Kinnel is director of ratings, manager research, for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He heads the North American Medalist Rating Committee, which vets the Morningstar Medalist Rating™ for funds. He is the editor of Morningstar FundInvestor, a monthly newsletter, and has published a number of prominent studies of the fund industry covering subjects such as manager investment, expenses, and investor returns.

Since joining Morningstar in 1994, Kinnel has analyzed virtually every type of fund and has covered the most prominent fund families, including Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and Vanguard. He has led studies on the predictive power of fund data and helped develop the Morningstar Rating for funds and the Morningstar Style Box methodology. He was co-author of the company's first book, Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success (Wiley, 2003), and was author of the book Fund Spy: Morningstar's Inside Secrets to Selecting Mutual Funds That Outperform, published in 2009.

Kinnel holds a bachelor's degree in economics and journalism from the University of Wisconsin.

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