Clients added a net $87.8 billion in investor money, more than triple what it gathered in the prior three months and the highest amount ever raised in a quarter.

It's the first time hes publicly confirmed that he was dismissed from the firm he co-founded in 1971.

The majority of money gathered by Grosss new fund at Janus Capital Group Inc. came from the same Morgan Stanley brokerage where his personal financial adviser works.

The figures provide a rare glimpse of how some executives were paid at Pimco, even as performance at the firms main fund stumbled and clients started to pull out.

Eaton Vance Corp. has won the backing of regulators for a new type of exchange-traded fund that wont disclose holdings daily.

Investors are reviewing their allocations, moving money to competitors such as Vanguard Group Inc. and DoubleLine Capital LP.

Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Weil has raised the firms profile in the past month, hiring Pimoc co-founder Gross and agreeing to buy VelocityShares to expand in exchange-traded products.

Ford is among large investors moving money from Pimco after his Sept. 26 exit, with clients rattled by the change pulling a record $23.5 billion in September from the Total Return Fund.