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Bill Gross Investigation Raised Tensions At PIMCO

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Mark Melin
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The situation inside PIMCO with founder and its chief public face Bill Gross, considered a great manager of investments but not of people, was tense in recent years. But the recent Securities and Exchange probe into inflated returns of Gross’s own Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund pushed the situation to a boiling point, according to ValueWalk sources.

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Bill Gross at the Morningstar conference in Chicago - June 19th 2014

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.