On the day when The Financial Times dropped a'hit piece on Bill Gross, saying "after jumping from Pimco, the man dubbed the bond king has lost his lustre," the Janus Henderson fund manager is furiously responding that it's "ridiculous" to suggest he is not paying attention to his portfolio.

As The FT's Robin Wigglesworth reports, the Global Unconstrained Bond Fund that Mr Gross started in 2014 was supposed to be the vehicle for his redemption story.

Freed from the shackles of management and relieved of the sheer size of his former flagship — the Pimco Total Return Fund — the toppled bond king was going to focus on his skill as an investor to reclaim his throne from a host of pretenders.