Big mutual funds have sold out of
big bond positions — notably Pimco in the period around Bill Gross's departure — without causing a major crash.
Not exact matches
I've seen a
big seller who needed to sell a
big position in a junk
bond issue force the market down 40 points in order find a level where buyers would step up.
The world's
biggest wealth fund is for now sticking to an overweight
position in the shorter
bond maturities as the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield has broken through the 3 percent threshold for the first time since 2014.
From a «consensual
positioning» perspective which touches on this current «mean - reversion dynamic in the marketplace: say this
big bond rally were to gather steam into a much more punishing squeeze of the «all - time» UST short base (largely due to the previously mentioned lack of «tolerance» for beginning of year performance pain).
In Icahn Takes On Kerkorian in
Big Las Vegas Showdown (subscription required), The Wall Street Journal reports that Carl Icahn has built a large
position in the
bonds of MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) and i...
Pimco Total Return Fund suffered its
biggest decline in almost two decades in 2013, hurt by similar
positions in shorter - term debt and inflation - linked
bonds.
In Betting on the Blind Side, Lewis excerpts The
Big Short, which describes Burry's short
position in some detail, how he figured out that the
bonds were mispriced, and how he bet against them (no small effort because the derivatives to do so didn't exist when he started looking for them.
He reportedly also said a woman's
bond with her children might also be the reason few would apply for judicial
positions on the federal «circuit courts» where they may be forced to travel away from family (say for a week in another
big city or something crazy like that).