The California-based manager wasn't immune to structured credit's disastrous March, but has been able to raise money to take advantage of the dislocation.
His picks ranged from a memoir about growing up in a fundamentalist family to biographies of Frederick Douglass and Winston Churchill.
PIMCO is investing in a number of technology areas, but CEO Manny Roman said he's always worried about staying a step ahead of new competitors.
Scott Mather, the CIO of US core strategies at Pimco, explains how investors should be positioned so they're not blindsided by the next recession.
PIMCO is trying to turn every employee into a 'citizen data scientist,' chief technology officer Dirk Manelski told Business Insider.