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Bill Gross: Let others borrow for you

  • In a world of barely visible interest rates, it pays to borrow, rather than invest, Bill Gross tells Barron's. One way to do that is to speculate in merger-arbitrage plays where the acquiring company does the borrowing for you - think Berkshire Hathaway's purchase of Precision Castparts last year or the current AB InBev bid for SABMiller, both of which Gross' Janus Unconstrained Bond Fund (MUTF:JUCAX) were/are in.
  • Another way are closed-end funds which borrow and lever assets 35-50%, and his fund has 8-9% of its money in CEFs trading at a discount to NAV. Two favorites are the Nuveen Preferred Income Opportunities fund (NYSE:JPC) and the Duff & Phelps Global Utility Income fund (NYSE:DPG).
  • Another example of letting others do the borrowing for you are mortgage REITs like Annaly Capital (NYSE:NLY) and American Capital Agency (NASDAQ:AGNC). Annaly is levered 4-6 times vs. banks at 8-9 times. It borrows in the overnight repo market and invests in government-backed mortgages, resulting in a yield of about 11% thanks to leverage, not risky assets.

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