Quantcast
The MFWire
Manage Email Alerts | Sponsorships | About MFWire | Who We Are

Subscribe to MFWire.com's News Alerts [click]

Rating:Bill Gross Sees the Importance of Twitter Not Rated 3.0 Email Routing List Email & Route  Print Print
Monday, September 20, 2010

Bill Gross Sees the Importance of Twitter

News summary by MFWire's editors

John Waggoner takes a look at mutual fund firms' social media efforts in his article on USA Today.

Bill Gross
Pimco
"Bill Gross came to me and asked if I knew what Twitter and Facebook were," Pimco's media relations head Mark Porterfield narrates to Waggoner. "I said yes, and he said, 'The folks that use these platforms are our current and future clients — and they are comfortable with it — so we need to learn how to communicate with them today rather than 10 years from now.'"

Pimco [see profile] has about 5,000 Twitter followers. Fidelity [see profile], which started using Twitter last October, has 3,000. USAA [see profile], for its part, has 10,000.

Other fund firms on Twitter include Putnam Investments [see profile] and Schwab [see profile].

Interestingly, T. Rowe Price [see profile], which has made an investment in Twitter, currently does not have a Twitter account. Neither is the firm on Facebook. Capital Management and Research [see profile] also among the firms that are not in either of the two social media platforms. 

Edited by: Hung Tran


Stay ahead of the news ... Sign up for our email alerts now
CLICK HERE

3.0
 Do You Recommend This Story?



GO TO: MFWire
Return to Top
 News Archives
2024: Q2Q1
2023: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2022: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2021: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2020: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2019: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2018: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2017: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2016: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2015: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2014: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2013: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2012: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2011: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2010: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2009: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2008: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2007: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2006: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2005: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2004: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2003: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2002: Q4Q3Q2Q1
 Subscribe via RSS:
Raw XML
Add to My Yahoo!
follow us in feedly




©All rights reserved to InvestmentWires, Inc. 1997-2024
14 Wall Street | 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005 | P: 212-331-8968 | F: 212-331-8998
Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use