How to be a rock-star bond investor
Bill Gross, Rolling Stone
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ONE NIGHT in 1965, Keith Richards woke up with a riff going around inside his head. He reached for his guitar, played the bare bones of a song into a cassette recorder and promptly fell asleep. Mick Jagger was soon scribbling lyrics by the swimming pool. Four days later, the Rolling Stones recorded “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Gross returns”
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