Gross giving himself four years to re-establish track record

Bill Gross, the money manager who jumped to Janus Capital Group Inc. in September from the bond giant he co-founded, said he'll keep trading for the next two to four years to prove he can still beat the market.

“I wanted to show clients and the world, to the extent that they're interested, that I can continue to produce a track record like I did at Pimco,” Mr. Gross said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “I won't have as much time, I won't have five to 10 to 15 years leeway like I had at Pimco to do that, but certainly for the next two, three, four years. I'm a very competitive person and I like to post numbers that are better than the market and better than the competition.”

Mr. Gross, 70, became a billionaire and earned his reputation as the mutual fund industry's bond king by building Pimco into a $2 trillion money manager, at its peak, with some of the highest returns in the business. The Pimco Total Return Fund, which he managed until he left, ballooned to $293 billion in April 2013, before performance faltered and clients started to pull money amid concern that interest rates would rise.

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