It is hard out there for a bond fund manager. Or rather, it is hard for the Bond Market Association, which yesterday told the world that Bill Gross, of PIMPCO, would be speaking at its annual meeting.

The typo is all the more wince-worthy since Gross's PIMCO is arguably the biggest and most famous bond fund in the world, and it is no small kudos for the BMA that it has enticed the Newport Beach, California resident all the way to New York for the conference next month, along with Alan Greenspan, Timothy Geithner of the New York Fed and SEC commissioner Cynthia Glassman.