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Paul McCulley Leaves PIMCO - "Mission Complete"

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Just months after the departure of founder Bill Gross, PIMCO has lost another headline-maker:

  • *PAUL MCCULLEY STEPS DOWN AS CHIEF ECONOMIST PIMCO
  • *PIMCO PAUL MCCULLEY STEPS DOWN AS CHIEF ECONOMIST
  • *MCCULLEY SAYS HE MAY DO THINGS IN THE ACADEMIC ARENA

Full Statement below:

PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, announced today that Paul McCulley has stepped down from his role as Managing Director and Chief Economist, which he assumed in May 2014.

 

Commenting on Mr. McCulley's departure, Daniel Ivascyn, PIMCO's Group Chief Investment Officer, said: "Paul returned to PIMCO last May after being recruited by Bill Gross, with whom he had a close friendship and association for more than 20 years. We understand and respect Paul's decision to step down. He is a great friend of our firm and our people, and we wish him great happiness going forward." Mr. McCulley's last day at the firm will be February 28.

 

Said Mr. McCulley: "I accepted this position, as I said at the time, to work side-by-side with Bill Gross, as economic counselor, doing the three things that I love: think, write and speak macro. My mission here is complete. I will continue doing the things I love in other spaces, possibly in the academic arena. PIMCO will always be Camelot in my heart."

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Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:29 | 5807440 johngaltfla
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I thought woman and children were let off the Titanic first? Sheesh Bill, going to leave a lot of widows and orphans to swim in those icy waters there..

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:31 | 5807450 Pool Shark
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Actually, most of PIMCO's funds have performed quite well since Bill's departure...

 

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:33 | 5807461 old naughty
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b,b,but, that's Camelot, Arthur left, not?

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:49 | 5807510 knukles
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Regardless of PIMCO itself, McCulley is a world class thinker.  Always insightful and enjoyable work. What the investment guys did with his insights is a whole nother matter. 

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:25 | 5807645 Wild Theories
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I did enjoy reading his wonkery

had to read slowly at times(the man's way over-educated than I), but that's why I enjoyed the exercise

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 12:10 | 5808078 Babaloo
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Agreed.  McCulley is an unreconstructed Keynesian and a very long term thinker.  He was talking the "new normal" which is a long term period of growth below what we had seen in the past a very long time ago.

He also has more money sitting in his checking account than the vast majority of us will ever earn in our lifetimes...

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:33 | 5807463 johngaltfla
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Better look at the redemptions. Nasty, nasty, nasty....

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:35 | 5807467 stinkhammer
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Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:41 | 5807487 Karlus
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>>Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling

 

Yeah, well. The Dude abides.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:45 | 5807501 johngaltfla
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The Dude rules. Bowling it is. And drinking. I'm there.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:53 | 5807526 negative rates
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Grub a dub grub, 3 men in a tub.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:56 | 5807539 Cacete de Ouro
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Obviously, you're not a golfer

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:40 | 5807486 rubiconsolutions
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It's nice to see that Sam Elliott finally got some real work.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:59 | 5807550 junction
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First, Bill needs to trim that facial hair, the 70s are long gone.  Then he needs to wash his pants, to remove the shoe stains put on the seat of his pants as he was booted out the door. 

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 11:48 | 5807971 ImReady
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Since when does Kris Kristofferson work at PIMCO?

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:30 | 5807444 NoDebt
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"I will now retire to my cabin in the woods to spend more time with my bear, Ben."

 

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:43 | 5807470 Monetas
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I will resign .... effective February 29 !  JE SUIS JUIF !

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:46 | 5807498 Thirst Mutilator
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So basically, 'Black History Month' gets a bonus day every 4 years so we can watch the 'Pootie Tang' all day movie marathon.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:53 | 5807529 knukles
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Black History Month being February is Racist.
Because the blacks get the shortest and oddest (in that it changes every four years and thus is unreliable) month.  Others have suggested that makes it appropriate opposite content.
But who am I to judge.  Simply reporting on CA Progressive perspectives, enhancing your information set.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:00 | 5807548 Thirst Mutilator
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Well ~ if you factor in Groundhog Day, I guess they figure that the actual number of days is a float which could be exponentialized to the power of "n"

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:35 | 5807686 knukles
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They wouldn't understand it.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:38 | 5807477 NoWayJose
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Weep not for McCulley, but for all the unnamed lower-level Pimco-ites that are also being purged because of their support of, or their close ties to Bill Gross. I imagine McCulley's parachute for leaving has a few strands of barbarous relic running through it.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:40 | 5807483 cornfritter
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Hey, Great hair.

Was just reading about NSAs new field operative.  Barbie :-) Sweet.

http://www.trueactivist.com/new-barbie-will-talk-with-children-record-th...

There's a comedy clip there for someone more talented than me.... Police surround build "Deputy what are we picking up?"  "Sarge, it's a prepper family with practically no digital footprint .... wait .... Barbie!!!!"  High Fives and donuts all around

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:40 | 5807484 aliki
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1. coin phrase "the new neutral"
2. collect $25 million for 1 year
3. waive flag saying "mission accomplished", then head back to the mountain

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:46 | 5807503 zjxn06
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Isn't this the 2nd time he has left?

"I really mean it this time!"

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:46 | 5807505 847328_3527
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Why not relax and just become a Malibu Hippie on the beach?

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:55 | 5807535 SharkBit
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I am the dude.  His dudeness. Whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMuFYnvSsZg

 

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:56 | 5807538 Oldballplayer
Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:03 | 5807568 soylentgreenispeople
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The Big  Mcculley .

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:07 | 5807588 djsmps
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I enjoyed him in the Beatles.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:18 | 5807624 vegas
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Translation: "I've pillaged and stolen everything I can get my hands on and so it's time to leave; nothing more in the basket. Thanks Muppets!"

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:24 | 5807638 drdolittle
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Translation, PIMCO will implode. Of course, noone could have foreseen it.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 10:35 | 5807685 youngman
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I like to think, write, and talk too......drink and eat also....a girlfriend now and then...am I a pimco star..or just a human ....being....

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 11:16 | 5807837 QQQBall
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1-1/2 weeks notice. Kinda qwik?

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 11:19 | 5807851 Gab Timov
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double rainbow, oh mah gah

triple rainbow

what does this mean?

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 12:16 | 5808105 Colonel Klink
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Pimpco....Camelot?  What a fucking sick joke.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 13:34 | 5808394 malek
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Always amazing to see The Big Lie being applied to the tiniest sideshows of statements - seems those speakers/writers are so used on it, they have massive diffculty not to employ it for once

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 13:09 | 5808282 Kinskian
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Bruce Jenner is sooo jealous of Paul's hair. Bruce has to buy those extension thingies from the Koreans to get the same look...

http://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Paul-McCulley.jpg

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