The manager of the world's largest mutual fund has raised more than $1.5 billion for a private pool to buy debt such as troubled commercial and residential mortgages from banks looking to improve their balance sheets.
Just how much of the estimated $3 trillion in Japanese assets held outside the country will be repatriated due to the earthquake, tsunami, and potential nuclear disaster has yet to be seen.
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of the Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), told CNBC that the US economy must learn how to survive independently, without artificial stimulus.
In a 2,000-word diatribe, PIMCO's Bill Gross has said that Central bankers compare unfavorably to the devil and that money managers have failed to properly allocate capital.