Philippe Bodereau, Managing Director, PIMCO

Douglas Herbert speaks to Philippe Bodereau, Managing Director at PIMCO. He has a bird's-eye vantage on Europe's prospects as a place to invest - now and in the future. He is Senior Vice President at the UK branch of PIMCO, a California-based investment firm that is also the world's biggest bond fund. So does he think that in the name of trimming deficits, Europe's leaders are imposing a cure that's worse than the disease?

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