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Billionaire investor Bill Gross says GameStop’s ‘Reddit wolfpack’ was doomed from the start

The co-founder of Pimco said that the movement lacked size and sufficient staying power

Bill Gross, portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors, says the movement of retail traders that organised themselves on Reddit appear to lack sufficient size and staying power to finish off established hedge funds and unconstrained individual investors who can close their eyes to daily fluctuations
Bill Gross, portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors, says the movement of retail traders that organised themselves on Reddit appear to lack sufficient size and staying power to finish off established hedge funds and unconstrained individual investors who can close their eyes to daily fluctuations Photo: Getty Images

The victims of the GameStop saga will be trading platform Robinhood investors and the movement was “doomed from the beginning”, co-founder of investment fund Pimco Bill Gross has said.

“The victims in the GameStop experiment have and will continue to be the Robinhood investors storming the gates of capital markets (for which they have an admirable objective of creative destruction of hedge fund/old Wall Street dominance) without the size, the endgame plan, and the mathematical option pricing expertise to succeed,” said Gross.

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