Mary Childs
Review via The Wall Street Journal
“The Bond King” titillates with its subtitle: “How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.” But Wall Street has a slightly different recollection of Bill Gross, co-founder, in 1971, of Pimco, the giant California money management firm. Closer to the plain truth might be: “How One Man Reimagined a Market, Built a Business, Got Rich, and Stayed Rich.” Mr. Gross, 77, was the chief investment brain, public voice and institutional face of Pimco until his exasperated partners gave him the gate in 2014.
