Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
BILL GROSSEx-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
BILL GROSSWhen the tide goes out, you get to see who’s swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
BILL GROSSWell, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn’t that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.
BILL GROSSIn questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well.
BILL GROSSBonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
BILL GROSSBond 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.
BILL GROSSImperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
BILL GROSSWhen you’re underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It’s not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We’re too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.
BILL GROSSDollar 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.
BILL GROSSEven if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
BILL GROSSIf companies don’t know that they can run out of money, they won’t be thinking of ways not to run out of money.
BILL GROSSDamn inflation, full speed ahead,’ Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.
BILL GROSSAccountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
BILL GROSSDo 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.
BILL GROSSWhether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
BILL GROSSWe are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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