TIP451: The Story of Bill Gross aka The Bond King W/ Mary Childs

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

• 06:48 - How Ed Thorpe influenced Bill Gross in the early days.
• 04:49 - How Bill pioneered a market for trading bonds.
• 09:23 - How Bill founded Pimco and the famous Total Market return fund.
• 21:41 - How they successfully navigated the GFC and established an abnormal relationship with the government along the way.
• 31:44 - The trade that began the decline of Bill’s time at Pimco.
• 51:25 - Bill’s own autobiography was recently released.
• And a whole lot more!

*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

• The Bond King Book.
• Planet Money Podcast.
• Mary Childs' Substack.
• Trey Lockerbie Twitter.
• Preston, Trey & Stig’s tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool.
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