Bill searches his soul

Fixed-income investing isn’t an area normally associated with soul searching. can still wrongfoot us all, though. The Pimco managing director’s March Investment Outlook takes a moment out from analysis of the bond markets to conduct a pensive and very personal meditation on religion, war and the author’s mortality, with the help of a few carefully chosen quotations.

Gross seems to have plunged into the dark night of the soul. He writes: “In the absence of personal resolution, I fall back on the thinking of Tennyson: ‘There lives more faith in honest doubt,’ he wrote, ‘than in half the creeds.’