Gross reiterated during the interview that he will be at Pimco for a long time and looks to Dan Fuss, the 80-year-old bond manager at Loomis Sayles & Co., as a role model. When he does retire, one of the six deputy CIOs named after El-Erian’s exit could be a potential heir, Gross said.
Gross said he had been asking himself in the past months whether the picture painted of him was true, and whether the image he has of himself was wrong. For the most part, he concluded, it was not.
“I look in the mirror, you know, and I like my hair. It’s nice and thick,” Gross said. “But can it be changed, can it be a different style, can it be trimmed at a certain level? Of course it can, and that’s what I’m trying to do.”