Feuding Fed-Watchers: Gross Gores Gundlach Over 'Bond King' Title
It's only been two years since former-Bond-King Bill Gross 'feuded' with someone (his neighbor) and spent five days in jail for it.
Watch these clips and decide for yourself. Who’s out of line here? Underwear-clad Bill Gross with @50cent’s “In Da Club” blasting? Or Mark Towfiq, the neighbor who’s filming him? Part 1: pic.twitter.com/2R0CyTsIFt
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) December 7, 2020
So perhaps the grumpy old man was due for another fight and who better to battle than the current-Bond-King Jeff Gundlach.
Bloomberg reports that the ex-PIMCO-boss seems unable to hand over his crown...
“First of all, to be a bond king or queen, you need a kingdom,” Gross said at a live recording of the Odd Lots podcast at the Future Proof conference for the wealth management industry in Huntington Beach, California.
“Pimco had $2 trillion, ok? DoubleLine’s got like $55 billion. Come on — that’s no kingdom, that’s like Latvia or Estonia.”
Apparently, the 'beef' between the bond-kings began when Gross visited Gundlach after he left PIMCO, asking if they could work together:
“I went up to his house and said “Maybe I could work with you, we could be two bond kings,” he said during the podcast recording.
“And he trashed me for the next 12 months... And look at his record for the last five, six, seven years,” Gross added. “I got you back, Jeff.”
But Gross admits much of his success to a 30-year bond bull market:
“I don’t think there could be another bond king,” Gross said in a slightly less contemptible tone.
“It was the function of a bull market for 30 years that was growing and Pimco was doing well.”
He concludes that asset managers may no longer be wearing the crown...
“The bond kings and queens are at the Fed,” he added.
“So they’re in charge.”
As a reminder, Gross left PIMCO in 2014 after clashing with colleagues.
As the 79-year-old tries a dick-measuring contest, we remind readers that Gundlach is not afraid of mud-slingers.
As yet, Gundlach has not commented...
