The confession season
By Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan The year is not yet over and already the confessions are starting to roll in from some of the biggest U.S. money managers. Bill Gross, manager of the world’s...
View ArticleGross miscalculation?
By Jennifer Ablan and Matthew Goldstein It appears that Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund is losing ground with investors — just not as fast as we originally thought. Morningstar, the mutual-fund...
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Paul after PIMCO
By Jennifer Ablan and Matthew Goldstein Paul McCulley says working at bond giant PIMCO was like being in Camelot. But in some ways, Bill Gross’s former top Federal Reserve watcher seems a lot...
View ArticlePIMCO and BlackRock go strolling down K Street
By Jennifer Ablan and Matthew Goldstein Wall Street may hate financial regulatory reform, but lobbyists certainly love it—especially ones working on behalf of giant asset managers PIMCO and BlackRock,...
View ArticleUF’s Weekend Reads
We’re introducing a new feature on UF: a link to some weekend reads. Here is the first edition complied by Sam Forgione. From The Guardian: Andrew Balls, head of European investment for PIMCO from...
View ArticleUF Weekend Reads
The latest offerings by our Sam Forgione include a little Bridgewater, PIMCO and Jamie. From National Journal: Jim Tankersley airs Nick Hanauer’s championing of the middle class after Hanauer’s TED...
View ArticleUF Weekend reads – The PIMCO edition
Jenn Ablan likes to tell me that people are always writing about PIMCO and Bill Gross, the long reigning “king of bonds.” And when you think of it there’s a lot of truth to that assertion. Gross’...
View ArticleGundlach doesn’t whine over his stolen wine
By Jennifer Ablan and Matthew Goldstein Who said bonds are boring? In recent days, Jeffrey Gundlach, the new king of the fixed-income world, has been dominating headlines with his lengthy CNBC...
View ArticleObama hearts El-Erian
By Sam Forgione and Matthew Goldstein OK, so it’s not a big gig like being nominated to head the Treasury Dept. But President Obama’s decision to tap PIMCO’s Mohamed El-Erian to head the President’s...
View ArticleThe sultans of swing
Although most investors have been pleased with the steadily rising U.S stock market over the past six months, funds that profit when markets are convulsing are licking their wounds. With market stress...
View ArticleMoney manager titans who can’t wait until 2014
The year can’t end fast enough for some of the world’s biggest investors. Bill Gross, who many like to consider the King of Bonds, lost one of his prized titles last week when his PIMCO Total Return...
View Article‘Bond King’ Gross speaks to 700 at Pimco client event in Big Apple
By Jennifer Ablan By Jennifer Ablan Bill Gross did something last week he rarely does — venture from his Newport Beach, Calif. home to meet with investors twice. First in Chicago at the Morningstar...
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Jeffrey Gundlach, on his year as new ‘King of Bonds’
By Jennifer Ablan When Bill Gross shocked the investment world on Sept. 26 by storming out of Pimco, the most prominent bond investor in the world didn’t stop leaving people stunned. It was later...
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