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Bear Funds don't live up to hype except for PIMCO StocksPlus Short Strategy Fund

InvestorInvestor
edited April 2011 in Fund Discussions
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-15/gross-alone-beating-s-p-as-two-crashes-in-decade-fail-to-boost-bear-funds.html

PIMCO StocksPlus funds are not stock funds. They invest in futures contracts with collateral invested in bonds. Some call this a version of portable alpha strategy.

Despite the success of PIMCO StocksPlus Short strategy, I personally do not believe a short biased fund is a good strategy for long term investing. These funds got a good boost in 2008-early 2009 and has ever since bleeding those gains.

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  • InvestorInvestor
    Mod: Duplicate of what Ted posted earlier. Please delete this discussion.
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