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NYT Dealbook: David on Gross, at Morningstar Conference
...So it was perhaps not surprising when Mr. Gross made a splash at the Morningstar conference in June. Still, the antics were offensive to analysts in the audience who were already jarred by reports of turmoil at Pimco that had led to the departure of Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief executive, earlier this year.
David Snowball, the publisher of the trade publication Mutual Fund Observer, was withering in his assessment of the appearance, calling Mr. Gross “a brilliant guy stumbling about with no sense of appropriateness"...