Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO)
The shrinking Social Security trust fund: Are we really surprised?
Various media reports presented news of the shrinking Social Security trust fund as a surprise. For anyone who has followed the health of the system and knows its history this is no real shock.
April 26, 2012 | 10:00 am
Big bond investors seeing QE3 on the horizon
Bill Gross, Jeffrey Gundlach and Dan Fuss, whose firms collectively oversee about $1.5 trillion, expect the Federal Reserve to conduct a third round of bond purchases as signs of strength in the U.S. ...
April 13, 2012 | 01:50 pm
Fink finds fund assets aren't enough in BlackRock bid for clout
Laurence D. Fink, who built BlackRock Inc. into the world's biggest asset manager, is seeking to increase the firm's clout beyond Wall Street to the wider public akin to the adulation that rival...
April 03, 2012 | 02:04 pm
PIMCO Total Return draws $1.7 billion in Q1; DoubleLine fund adds $6.4 billion
The PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's biggest mutual fund, attracted $1.7 billion of investor deposits in the first quarter as performance rebounded.
April 02, 2012 | 05:09 pm
PIMCO, Vanguard, Wellington keep top rankings
Pacific Investment Management Co., Vanguard Group and Wellington Management retained their rankings as the top three institutional asset management “brands” in the latest annual survey by ...
March 20, 2012 | 03:32 pm
Invesco, PIMCO deploy derivatives in target-date funds
Invesco Ltd. and Pacific Investment Management Co. are adding riskier assets and complicated strategies in target-date funds as they seek to gain ground on Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Group Inc....
March 14, 2012 | 12:41 pm
Updated stable value funds making a comeback
Stable value funds — one-time retirement plan favorites that were tarnished following the financial crisis — seem to be making a comeback.
March 12, 2012 | 12:01 am
ETFs give new meaning to words 'cross-selling'
Money managers are using more and more of each others' exchange-traded funds as portfolio tools — significant because ETFs are the only major example of investment management firms using their...
March 05, 2012
Portfolio managers must anticipate moves like tennis pros
Can anticipatory cues help investors? We believe the answer is yes if you know how to watch for them and then use the cues to guide portfolio construction.
March 05, 2012 | 12:01 am
Fidelity, PIMCO, Vanguard say inflation won’t be a problem this year
Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group Inc. and Pacific Investment Management Co., which together oversee $4.53 trillion, say U.S. inflation will be contained this year.
February 14, 2012 | 12:09 pm
BlackRock's Doll disagrees with PIMCO's Gross, says QE3 unlikely
Bob Doll of BlackRock Inc. says the Federal Reserve will refrain from conducting a third round of debt purchases as the economy grows.
January 31, 2012 | 04:12 pm
The dawning of the Age of Austerity
As we start a new year, many are asking what the unprecedented events of 2011 mean for investors in the months ahead. PIMCO COO Douglas Hodge offers some thoughts.
January 23, 2012
PIMCO opens 2 equity funds run by former Thornburg managers
Pacific Investment Management Co. opened two new dividend-focused equity funds run by a pair of former Thornburg Investment Management executives who came to PIMCO in September.
January 10, 2012 | 03:40 pm
New funds help PIMCO overcome Total Return redemption woes
Pacific Investment Management Co. won $60 billion in net deposits last year despite redemptions from Bill Gross’ Total Return fund as investors put money into stock funds and products designed...
January 05, 2012 | 03:56 pm
PIMCO Total Return loses $5 billion to withdrawals in 2011
The PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest mutual fund, had $5 billion in client redemptions last year as performance trailed that of its rivals.