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Former "Bond King" Bill Gross, who popularized the “Total Return” strategy in the 1980s, has criticized current proponents of that approach, saying almost all such funds have become quasi “index funds” in the last five years.   Gross, the co-founder...

The SPAC market continues to stay hot, and one of the newest announced SPACs has Tommy Hilfiger and PIMCO attached. The Leadership Team: The CEO, CFO and COO of Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: SBG) all come from sponsor Sandbridge Capital, a global consumer-focused investment firm....

William Gross, the PIMCO co-founder who most recently managed the Janus Henderson Group PLC (NYSE: JHG) Global Unconstrained Bond funds, announced his retirement from the industry. “I’ve had a wonderful ride for over 40 years in my career – trying at all times to put client...

When inflation moves higher, fixed income investors often turn to Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, a corner of the bond market easily accessible via exchange traded funds. TIPS, which are viewed as a low-risk investment, are indexed to inflation. The par value of TIPS rises with increases...

PIMCO, one of the world's largest managers of fixed income assets, added to its lineup of exchange-traded funds Wednesday with the debuts of three equity-based smart beta funds, marking the first equity funds to join PIMCO's ETF stable. Each of three new PIMCO ETFs follow indexes from...

Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW), one of the largest discount brokerage firms, said Monday it is expanding its Schwab ETF OneSource platform. Schwab ETF OneSource is already the largest commission-free exchange-traded funds offering in the brokerage space. Fifteen ETFs from nine different issuers...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's features the results of the latest ranking of the best mutual fund families. The past year was full of changes for the mutual fund industry. Other featured articles include more on mutual funds and Barron's latest picks and pans. In...

In a new blog post, former PIMCO chief economist Paul McCulley discusses his frustrations with today’s economists. McCulley’s most recent disappointment has to do with the community’s reaction to the surprisingly weak U.S. jobs report in May. Rather than focusing on the...

Actively managed exchange-traded funds, on a combined basis, remain just a sliver of the overall U.S. ETF industry. As of mid-January, actively managed ETFs trading in the U.S. had just over $23 billion in assets under management, peanuts relative to the well over $2 trillion in combined U.S. ETF...

Deep value investor Tim Melvin had the opportunity to speak with Rhino Small-Cap Financial Fund President and CEO John Schneider. Below is a full transcript of their conversation. Tim Melvin: We're on with John Schneider today, he's the president and chief investment officer of the Rhino Small-Cap...

The results of Greek referendum have sent the global financial markets on a downward spiral over fears that Greece will soon exit the eurozone. Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz SE (ADR) (OTC: AZSEY) and former PIMCO CEO, was on CNBC Monday to discuss the probability of a...