Bill Gross
Bill Gross
William Hunt "Bill" Grossis an American financial manager and author. He co-founded Pacific Investment Management. Gross also ran PIMCO's $270.0 billion Total Return Fund. Gross left Pimco to join Janus on September 26, 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 April 1944
CountryUnited States of America
swimming long naked
When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
running thinking way
If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.
order safety trying
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
long may austerity
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
dollars sanity creditors
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
lying reality people
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
years track excellence
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
wife wives-love newspapers
Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'
government-debt movement boat
With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.
ideas portfolios oblivion
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.
growth want standpoint
Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
return equity expenses
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
real vampire decay
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.
mean human-nature institutions
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.