"Equity markets went a very long way up very quickly and you tend to get technical corrections, you tend to get air pockets."
*The interview begins at 01:35
Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and before that, he spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. His book, When Markets Collide, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His latest book, published in 2016, is called The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse.