Top 25 Market Movers
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Bill Gross
Cofounder, managing director, and cochief investment officer, Pacific Investment Management Co.
Under Gross's leadership, PIMCO has grown into one of the largest and most respected bond houses. As the manager of the $128 billion PIMCO Total Return Bond fund, Gross displays his uncanny ability to forecast big-picture market moves, including the direction of interest rates.
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"Credit and debt finance is, in fact, the mother's milk of capitalism." -August 2008 investment outlook
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Bio
Date of Birth: 4/13/1944
Hometown: Middletown, Ohio
Education: B.S. in psychology, Duke University; M.B.A., University of California-Los Angeles
Trivia
Gross meditates and practices yoga each morning. He's also a big-time stamp collector.