Jim Caron is the Chief Investment Officer of the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM. He has 33 years of industry experience and joined Morgan Stanley in 2006. Previously, he was a portfolio manager and head of global macro strategies on the Fixed Income Team. He also held the position of Global Head of Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, and Emerging Markets Strategy with Morgan Stanley Research. In earlier years, he was a director at Merrill Lynch where he headed the U.S. Interest Rate Strategy Group. Jim also held various trading positions in rates and option products at JP Morgan. He earned a B.A. in physics from Bowdoin College, a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from New York University.
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Andrew Slimmon is the head of Applied Equity Advisors and is lead senior portfolio manager on all long equity strategies for the team. He is joined Morgan Stanley in 1991 and has more than 35 years of investment experience. He began his career at Morgan Stanley as an advisor in Private Wealth Management and later served as the chief investment officer of the Morgan Stanley Trust Company. Prior to joining the firm, Andrew was a buy-side equity research analyst with ARCO Investment Management. He began his career as an analyst and then portfolio manager for Brown Brothers Harriman. He often appears on CNBC, CNBC Asia, and Bloomberg TV and is quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Bloomberg and Reuters. Andrew holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Chris is a managing director for Eaton Vance Distributors, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). He is director of product and portfolio strategy for income and credit mandates and an institutional portfolio manager for Eaton Vance floating-rate loan strategies. Chris is responsible for market research and analysis, advancing the firm's managed strategies through thoughtful investment communications and insights on the credit markets. He joined Eaton Vance in 2008. Morgan Stanley acquired Eaton Vance in March 2021.

Chris began his career in the investment management industry in 2000. Before joining Eaton Vance, he was a fixed-income product specialist with Fidelity Investments, responsible for product strategy, investment communications and client portfolio management for Fidelity's suite of fixed-income investment capabilities. Prior to Fidelity, Chris was affiliated with Spelman & Company, where he was responsible for investment analytics and portfolio management.

Chris earned a B.S. in economics and an MBA in finance. He is a graduate of Clark University. His commentary has appeared in Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Money Management, Dow Jones Newswire, FundFire and SmartMoney, among other leading financial media outlets.