Even the world's
biggest bond manager weighed in, with Pimco's Bill Gross tweeting, «Are Italians voting for Austerity, Prosperity, or Promiscuity?
Ed Devlin, head of Canadian portfolio management at Pimco, among the world's
biggest bond managers, has warned for years that Canadian bonds are among the least diversified and most expensive in the world.
Not exact matches
To survive, Ganti says, money
managers should look beyond the multitrillion - dollar stock exchanges,
bond - trading platforms, and
big deals backed by private equity and venture capital.
Bill Gross, the
manager of the world's
biggest bond fund, said the global economy risks lapsing into recession with the pace of growth falling below the «new normal» level the firm has predicted since 2009.
«Watching a
big fight with a beer in hand is a classic
bonding experience for many boxing fans,» said Juan Carlos Montes, Shopper Marketing
Manager for Tecate.
you could maybe
bond and share other team's insults about our team and
manager, talk down to anyone who thinks this squad is capable of winning anything, or maybe just share a
big bowl of ice - cream together!
And to the degree that you are a smart
manager, you can lessen your dependence on the
big guys, and work with the hungry second tier, who know that money can be made by implementing the ideas of smart investors, so find ways to buy cheap
bonds for smart investors from dumb investors, and sell rich
bonds from smart investors to dumb investors.
When I was an institutional
bond manager, I would watch the results of trading on the slow days, because it would give a clue to what the «
big guys» were doing.
The one
big series that I started in that era was «The Education of a Corporate
Bond Manager» series.
In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail on the heels of the Fed's monetary - policy decision Tuesday - in which the central bank took a small step back into re-investing some of its own balance sheet to ease monetary conditions - the influential
bond manager gave a vote of confidence to the Fed's strategy, criticized the Obama administration and Congress for a their lack of innovation and leadership, and argued that unless
big government - policy changes are made, the United States faces years of economic stagnation.
The only problem now is that when all the
big fund
managers will decide to withdraw from the
bond market then we shall see a steeper jump as Government of Canada is not likely to intervene.
Gross,
manager of the world's
biggest bond fund until he unexpectedly left Pimco on Sept. 26, is running the Unconstrained Fund out of a rented office a five - minute walk from Pimco's headquarters in Newport Beach, California.
With a few exceptions, it has paid recently for
bond managers to play on the riskier areas of their mandates, with the exception of high quality long duration
bonds, which were the
big winners last year, and the
big losers this year so far.
Adding
bonds to an equity portfolio lowers its overall volatility, but that's not the kind of risk management were talking about here: after all, pension
managers are not skittish retail investors, so volatility isn't a
big concern.
This week's Barron's has a cover story describing how the
big - time wealth
managers are recommending a shift from
bonds to stocks.
• The world's
biggest money
manager, BlackRock, opened the first ETFs that will invest in junk
bonds from Europe to Asia.
On that day, the new corporate
bond manager, with whom I would divide the portfolio (because it had gotten so
big) was there for the first time.
Likewise, Dodge & Cox is a stock - heavy
manager, and their largest funds made a
big losing bet on financial stocks last year, which, combined with a relative lack of
bond assets to buffer them, didn't serve the firm (or their funds» investors) very well.