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Whether 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.

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Bill Gross
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 13
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Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
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When 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.
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Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
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Well, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'
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I am tough but I have a soft side.
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When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
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Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
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Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.
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