The majority of money gathered by Gross’s new fund at Janus Capital Group Inc. came from the same Morgan Stanley brokerage where his personal financial adviser works, according to the Wall Street Journal. The wealth-management office in La Jolla, California, routed about $700 million to Gross’s fund in October and November, the newspaper said yesterday, citing confidential brokerage data viewed by executives. The report didn’t say how much of the money came from Gross himself.

Gross has a history of putting his own money into the funds he manages, a move that can be seen as a vote of confidence in his strategy and help attract bigger investors. The Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, which Gross has run since Oct. 6, expanded to $1.2 billion in assets as of Nov. 28, from $13 million before he joined Janus, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“It’s nothing but a positive across the board if it’s actually his money,” Joshua Emanuel, chief investment officer at Elements Financial Group in Irvine, California, said in a telephone interview. “What every investor should want to see from every portfolio manager is the manager putting their own assets in the product.”