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Pimco to stay away from equities and passive management

CEO Emmanuel Roman talks the future of asset management, the struggles of hiring tech talent and wine

Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co
Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co Photo: Getty Images

Pimco chief executive Emmanuel Roman has made clear the firm’s ill-starred attempt to break into equities investing is unlikely to be repeated, in conversation with Goldman Sachs’ incoming CEO David Solomon.

In an interview for Goldman’s regular media series, GS Talks, the French-born CEO told Solomon that fixed income is where Pimco’s strengths lie, and drew a comparison with asset management rivals like BlackRock and Wellington, which are “trying to do many different things”.

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