As the most persistent long-term uptrend in bond prices was nearing a wall five years ago, with yields on the U.S. ten year note fluttering near 3 percent and short term rates on a path to near zero, Bill Gross saw the writing on the wall, sources have said. He had lived through the most amazing time to be a long bond manager and wanted to diversify Pimco away from being a one trick pony in bonds. This is when he established an equity offering and soon after built a respected quantitative managed futures division. One of those diversification components…
Pimco Exits Stock Investments… Again
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.