Asset Management

Pimco CEO’s first buy: a muni-bond business

Pacific Investment Management Co beefs up its tax-exempt investments business

Pimco has agreed to buy a municipal-bond specialist, the firm’s first acquisition since appointing Emmanuel Roman as chief executive.

Gurtin Municipal Bond Management oversees $14bn in assets for wealthy individual investors. Pimco said on Tuesday that it plans to add the San Diego-based firm to its dedicated muni-bond arm, the people said, giving the combined business $38bn in that business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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