Bill Gross, Founder and Managing Director, PIMCO
The Bond King graduated from Duke University with a degree in psychology in 1966. After service in the Navy, he received an MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. In an interesting twist, Mr. Gross played blackjack professionally in Las Vegas before joining Pacific Mutual Life as an investment analyst. Gross, along with Bill Podlich and Jim Muzzy, convinced Pacific Mutual to let them actively manage the bond fund in a separate account and Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) is formed in 1971. Gross is a CFA charterholder and was named the Fund Manager of the Decade (2000-2009) by MorningStar.
Rather than an intuitive genius in finance, I think it is the ability to apply the pursuit of knowledge to financial problems that has made these men successful.
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