Bill Gross’s Successor to Quit at 44 and Hit the Road With Kids

‘The pandemic has caused everybody to sort of reevaluate’
Time for cross-country trips while children ‘still like me’

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By Vivien Lou Chen

May 12, 2021 at 8:16 PM UTC

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At just 44, Nick Maroutsos has one of the most elite jobs in money management: the head of global bonds at Janus Henderson Investors, a firm that oversees some $400 billion.

But he’s walking away from it in October to consider his second act and hit the road for cross-country trips with his young children while -- as he put it -- “they still like me.”