For Gross, Pimco is an obsession
Beating his ex-employer in performance is what the fund manager is most concerned about to prove that firing him was a mistake
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Newport Beach, California
SITTING in the conference room of his empty office suite, with its floor-to-ceiling wall of windows, William H Gross cannot help noticing the sleek office tower that the bond giant Pimco moved into in early 2014.
Just a short walk up the road, the 20-story building looms large in the Southern California sun - a potent symbol of the riches and might that Pimco came to represent during Mr Gross' long reign there as the bond king.
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