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Pimco's Bill Gross on Scoping Out Subprime

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Bill Gross of PIMCO on how he had 10 Credit Anaysts in PIMCO go out into the real estate market in 2006- two or three times a month as home buyers- to find out what was really happening in the real estate market. This went on till June 2008. In this way he found things about the lack of down payments, poor documentation, and practices in the real estate mania that helped PIMCO get a better sense of the market. Staying out of the real estate market meant underperforming relative to peers, and this wasn't easy for the 9-12 months before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, says Gross. Gross points out that as an investor its hard to get the timing right, as hard as when he has that extra hour and half being up at 4.30 am instead of 6.00 because he isn't sure he can get it right waking up at 6.00.

PIMCO

06/07/2011

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