Mohamed El-Erian

Thomas Smicklas submits:The Financial Times featured basic comments from Marc Faber, Mohamed El-Erian and Stephen Roach. Readers know all about the first two, Stephen Roach is the Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.Faber state that while 2009 produced life-time buying opportunities, 2010 will be a year of capital preservation. If asset markets were to weaken again, more fiscal and monetary stimulus would be implemented. If markets were to gain...  

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: RCS), a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company which as a primary objective seeks to generate, over time, a level of income higher than that generated by high-quality, intermediate-term U.S. debt securities and as a secondary objective, seeks to maintain volatility in the net asset value of the shares of the Fund comparable to that of...  

Kurt Brouwer submits: In a lengthy commentary on its website, Pimco’s Mark Kiesel makes the argument that high quality corporate bonds are more attractive than Treasuries. Kiesel is Pimco’s global head of corporate bond portfolio management and he is the portfolio manager for the Pimco Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund [PIGIX]. His analysis primarily covers two critical issues — creditworthiness and supply and demand.Complete Story »  

Fears that Britain may be heading for its first sovereign debt crisis since the 1970s hit a new intensity after Pimco, the world's biggest bond house, declared that it is starting to sell off its holdings of gilts.The American investment group said it will be a net seller of UK Government bonds this year, at the very point when the Bank of England brings its £200bn programme of purchases to and end and the Treasury attempts to raise...  

The massive stock-market rally in the past nine months is mostly due to secret government buying of stock-index futures, a respected stock-market analyst said Tuesday. Charles Biderman, chief executive of TrimTabs Investment Research, is the latest and most credible person to charge that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury (in league with top Wall Street firms) is rigging the stock market on a daily basis. Pimco Hits the Pound Pimco's...  

(Please visit the site to view this media)Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Clarida, global strategic adviser at Pacific Investment Management Co., talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the outlook for the U.S. labor market and its impact on Federal Reserve monetary policy. Clarida also discusses the status of the consumer credit market. William Cohan, author of "House of Cards" and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, also speaks...  

The American investment group [Pimco, the world's biggest bond house] said it will be a net seller of UK Government bonds this year, at the very point when the Bank of England brings its £200bn programme of purchases to and end and the Treasury attempts to raise unprecedented sums through the capital markets.The move is doubly embarrassing for the Government because the head of Pimco's European investment team is Andrew Balls, brother of...  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Neel Kashkari, a former Goldman Sachs banker who ran the government’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, has been tapped to head Pimco’s new investment initiatives. His appointment underscores Bill Gross’ and Mohamed El-Erian’s push to deepen the firm’s products and services beyond fixed income, Pimco’s bread and butter, and into equities. Gross [...]  

A New York Times story on former Goldman Sachs investment banker and former US Treasury official Neel Kashkari’s move to bond investment house Pimco reveals much about how US government bail-out policy helped many big investors. Pimco made $1.7 billion off of securities price appreciation when the US government decided to fully protect the value of Fannie Mae and Freddie...  

Tim Iacono submits: Investment managers at the fourth branch of the Federal Government, otherwise known as Pacific Investment Management Co. or Pimco, have reduced their exposure to government debt in anticipation of rising interest rates. This Bloomberg report has the details:Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund, cut government debt holdings and boosted cash to the most since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed in 2008 amid...  

The “King of Bonds,” Bill Gross, has been tapped to manage more funds at the Newport Beach, California-based investment company he founded. From MarketWatch last night: Bond investing giant Pimco said Tuesday that Founder Bill Gross will immediately assume primary responsibility for managing the PIMCO Corporate Income Fund (NYSE:PCN) , the PIMCO Corporate Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) [...]  

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PIMCO Global StocksPLUS® & Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: PGP), a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company which seeks total return comprised of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation, today announced its results for the fiscal quarter and six months ended September 30, 2009.   At September 30, 2009   2008 Net Assets $103,335,280 $158,919,587 Shares Outstanding 9,928,506 9...  

Pimco to Start Global Stock Fund Amid Equity PushBusinessWeek30 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co., the world's largest manager of bonds, filed with US regulators to start a stock mutual fund that can ...PIMCO Bond Fund Reaches $202.5B AUMEmii.comall 5 news articles »  

El-Erian, a former deputy director at the International Monetary Fund, shares the position of investment chief with Gross. On Dec. 7, Pimco hired former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari to help oversee new investment initiatives as the firm makes ...  

Pimco's Zhu Leaving for China Foreign-Exchange PostWall Street JournalChanghong Zhu, a derivatives specialist at Allianz SE's Pacific Investment Management Co., is leaving the firm to help manage China's ...China's Currency Regulator Hires Pimco Manager ZhuBloombergChina hires Pimco's Zhu to help run $2.3 trillion in reservesTelegraph.co.ukPIMCO Director Joins SAFEEmii.comMoney Management Letter -Pensions & Investments -FINalternativesall 10...