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The bond king: how one man made a market, built an empire
Spotlight - Mohammed and the mountain". The New York Times. January 29, 1978. p.5. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018 . Retrieved January 27, 2019. Mike Milken, the 30-year-old head of the corporate ... Hunched behind a borrowed desk in a cubicle in Century City the other dayWe're gonna subpoena that, boy, so you'd better erase it," Gross says, peeking through some palm trees. "That's harassment. Harrrrrrrrassment!" It all started during the early 1970s at Pacific Life Insurance, where Gross landed his first job after graduating from business school. His initial focus was on actuarial science, assuring that Pacific's bond portfolio was of the proper size and duration to pay off life insurance claims when they came due.
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Mary Childs (2022). The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1250120847.
Karen Dolan, C. F. A. (January 12, 2010). "Announcing the Morningstar Fund Managers of the Decade". Morningstar.com . Retrieved June 5, 2019. Zey, Mary (September 29, 2017). Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts. Routledge. ISBN 9781351314831. Their neighbors didn't like the look of this net-covered sculpture. They said it obstructed their view and asked Bill and Amy to remove the sculpture. Bill and Amy refused. So the neighbors complained to the city of Laguna Beach, and the city ended up telling Bill and Amy they needed permits for the sculpture (apparently, Laguna Beach has a lot of regulations).
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Farrell, Greg; Burton, Katherine; Gittelsohn, John (June 15, 2018). "Trump Insiders Seek Pardon for 'Junk Bond King' Michael Milken". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018 . Retrieved June 18, 2018. James B. Stewart (1992). Den of Thieves. p.133. ISBN 067179227X. The firm could issue a "highly confident" letter, a formal pledge from Drexel that ... Later in that decade Gross was way ahead of the curve in predicting the mortgage melt down that was to come. He sent his people out to pose as home buyers to get a better understanding of the deteriorating underwriting standards for mortgages which led to a stellar year in 2007. Childs avoids the obvious trap for books like these: getting lost in the byzantine details of Wall Street. From bonds to derivatives, Childs takes the time to explain each step succinctly and in plain English. The author's aptitude for such details is enormously appreciated and suits her well for future projects in the universe of Wall Street.Dodgers' Guggenheim subject of SEC probe over Michael Milken ties". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 16, 2013 . Retrieved March 26, 2013.