Bill Gross will take the keys to his newest mandate on March 1. That is the date Pimco has set for the listing of the ETF version of Gross' famed Total Return Bond Fund.

News of the listing date was provided in a terse message on the Pimco ETF Website.

The PIMCO Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund, which will trade under the ticker TRXT, is scheduled to list on March 1, 2012. Additional information about this fund will be available as the launch date approaches.

The open-end mutual fund version of Total Return is the nation's largest mutual fund. 

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