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PIMCO Launches ETF Replicating Its Flagship Total Return Fund
And some more odd news out of Pimco, in which we learn that PIMCO which now has about $74 billion in excess cash, has decided to go ahead and take more investor cash without any direct investment ideas and launch an ETF. From Bloomberg: "Pacific Investment Management Co. plans to offer an exchange-traded fund managed by Bill Gross that will invest primarily in fixed-income securities. Pimco Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund will buy a combination of U.S. and non-U.S. public and corporate debt, the Newport Beach, California-based firm said in filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund may hold as much as 10 percent of its assets in high-yield securities." According to preliminary data Pimco will hold up to 65% in government and corporate bonds. The biggest question: how big this ETF will be is still unanswered. As was first disclosed previously here, however, with the bigger fund negative Gov't debt right now, we wonder if the new ETF will merely whether replicate the larger fund's strategy or serve as a buyer of holdings from the larger fund when there is no other buyer in the market. Lastly, the whole point of having an ETF when anyone who wishes can buy the closed end fund, is just a little suspicious.
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It's build-your-own-Ponzi day! Great.
>It's build-your-own-Ponzi day! Great.
It's build-your-own Ponzi decade! HURRAY!
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FTFY
So he drove prices down to pick some up for this ETF. Well played Bill.
he possibly expects the government to do "the right thing" as if that could happen.
you have the link?
This article has nothing to do with silver, so I don't know why it's posted.
Compared to a silver article, I would expect the ratio of comments to be near 100:1, which is the historical average among metal/non-metal articles.
Metals, my little green friend, are reflecting the market's sentiment on nearly everything else going on.
> are reflecting the market's sentiment
That's what prices are.
But is the sentiment correct? Will it persist? Will it get greater or lesser?
These are the questions that make and break.
Do you have any substance offer, or do you just parachute in with randomly sequenced words?
This is like the scene in Braveheart, where the Scottish rebels hold their spears until the English cavalry is almost on top of them. Carnage maximization.
Now that PIMCO's telegraphed a pathway back into buying Treasurys, Gross just waits until he gets to his yield targets.
Does this set up for a Benny bribe or what?
But this is a shiny, new ETF, much sexier than those old, worn-out funds!
This reminds me of JPM's new silver vault, only in this case, it's a Pandora's Box for bonds.
PIMCO want a ponzi of their own. Pure and simple. It is either that or Benny had better start letting bond rates rise, period.
Another PIMCO bet on lower rates. They really believe.
This sounds like a hedge on the closed end fund.
Bastard working both ends.
Just to clarify, the ETF is the closed end fund. The traditional fund is an open end fund.
No creation units on the ETF??
http://www.sec.gov/answers/mfclose.htm
Thanks. I'll research this. Don't like ETF's in general, dangerous imho.
PHK is a closed-end fund, no?
Yes, but that's not the Total Return fund (PTTRX, PTTDX).
PIMCO been selling VOL in FI last 10 days
"just a little suspiscious". Ah, Tyler, a master of the understatement.
I had correctly predicted increase in silver price growth speed here, in this March 13th graph.
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2626&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sta...
But I made that prediction correctly based on consequent correction to 25-28 USD. Have i also predicted correction correctly ( that its coming soon) , and the level of correction price ( its 45 USD in the graph, could be of course even >50 USD in the peak as well as prices move very fast in superexponential growth region)?
We shall know in less than a 2 weeks.
The interesting thing is , stocks has to drop at the same time, as USD value will be somewhat temporarily restored vs. silver and also a bit vs. gold, but oil price should not change dramatically.
Is Iran going to do something stupid? I have no idea what could cause all these events simultaneously. Or some too big to fail bank may fail?
Gross just sold a bunch of Ts and now he is starting a fund to buy Ts? A retard could do his job.
If that retard had the timing of a particle-accelerator and balls of pure plutonium...
Typically, if "anyone" could do something, "everyone" would
Hopefully this isn't just a dumping ground.
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
If I recall correctly, PTTRX requires a $100,000 minimum investment. An ETF would allow smaller investors who believe in PIMCO's strategy to participate.
It would seem less suspicious if you knew that the coming Social Security reform in a few years will transform every man, woman, and child in the US into an ETF investor.
So, I guess Bill Gross believes that if you take something with no special value or advantage in the market, it gets better when you start trading the shit out of it. No wonder Wall Street loves him.
Aren't the relevant tickers PSOCX for the open end fund and PGP for a closed end fund selling at the huge premium?
nothing suspicious. There's a 3% entrance fee on the retail(PTTAX) version of the fund. Maybe you should do a little homework before writing?
1. That would be open-end.
2. Ever heard of Vanguard?