PIMCO Moderate Duration Fund INSTL (PMDRX)

All data as of 04/30/13, unless otherwise indicated.
PIMCO
Objective
Seeks maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management
Primary Portfolio
Short- and intermediate-term fixed income securities
At a Glance
SymbolPMDRX
CUSIP Number 693390593
Total Fund Assets (in millions) $2,739.5
Share Class Inception Date 12/31/1996
Dividend Frequency Accrues Daily; Distributes Monthly
Maximum Sales Charge -
Net Operating Expenses 0.46 %
Total Annual Operating Expenses 0.46 %

Daily Price
NAV Day Return
$10.88 -$0.02 -0.17%
YTD Return
0.86%
As of 05/17/13

Historical Prices

05/14/13

$10.88

05/15/13

$10.88

05/16/13

$10.90
Performance quoted represents past performance and is not a guarantee or a reliable indicator of future results. Investment return and the principal value of an investment will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. Current performance may be lower or higher than average annual returns shown. Performance quoted does not reflect any sales charges, if applicable, and performance would be lower if it did. Click Performance tab for performance current to the most recent month-end.
Fund Overview
Summary

An intermediate-term core bond investment

PIMCO Moderate Duration Fund is a core bond fund that provides broad market exposure to high-quality, intermediate-term fixed income securities. The Fund is managed for an overall portfolio duration ranging between two and five years. Following PIMCO’s signature total return philosophy and process, it employs a variety of strategies to enhance return potential and manage overall portfolio risk.


Why Invest In This Fund
Modest exposure to interest rate trends

The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of intermediate-duration bonds, aiming for an overall risk level similar to the Barclays Capital Intermediate Government/Credit Index. Duration is a measure of a security’s price sensitivity to interest rate changes, measured in years; a moderate duration implies greater interest rate sensitivity and return potential than short-duration bonds, but also higher volatility. The Fund can be used as a core holding for investors with a somewhat higher risk tolerance, or as an allocation to position a portfolio for expected interest rate trends.


Value-added active management

We seek to add value through active management of the Fund, employing multiple strategies to avoid having a single strategy dominate returns. The portfolio is well-diversified as well, with flexibility to invest across sectors and issuers. Although the Fund is subject to greater interest rate risk than short-duration funds, it strives to limit this risk by maintaining the portfolio’s duration within a relatively close range around the benchmark’s duration. The Fund employs PIMCO’s total return philosophy, seeking to balance capital appreciation potential and income.


Duration management expertise

PIMCO, a leading fixed income asset manager, combines various measures to assess the interest rate risk to which a longer duration portfolio may be subjected. Our extensive internal modeling addresses duration in its many forms: bull and bear durations (rate shifts of given amounts); total curve durations (changing yield curve shapes); credit spread durations; and mortgage spread and prepayment durations. Our firm-wide macroeconomic outlook, which forecasts the forces likely to impact fixed income markets over the short and long term, likewise helps drive our duration strategies.

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Managers

Bill Gross, CFA

Mr. Gross is a founder, managing director and co-CIO of PIMCO based in the Newport Beach office. He has been with PIMCO since he co-founded the firm in 1971 and oversees the management of more than $1.9 trillion of securities. He is the author of numerous articles on the bond market, as well as the book, "Everything You’ve Heard About Investing is Wrong," published in 1997. Among the awards he has received, Morningstar named Mr. Gross and his investment team Fixed Income Manager of the Decade for 2000-2009 and Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 1998, 2000, and 2007 (the first three-time recipient). He received the Bond Market Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2000 and became the first portfolio manager inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society's hall of fame in 1996. Mr. Gross is a seven-time Barron's Roundtable panelist (2005-2011), appearing in the annual issue featuring the industry's top investment experts, and he received the Money Management Lifetime Achievement Award from Institutional Investor magazine in 2011. In a survey conducted by Pensions and Investments magazine in 1993, he was recognized by his peers as the most influential authority on the bond market in the U.S. He has 43 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the funds carefully before investing. This and other information are contained in the fund’s prospectus and summary prospectus, if available, which may be obtained by contacting your financial advisor or PIMCO representative.  Click here for a complete list of the PIMCO Funds prospectuses and summary prospectuses. Please read them carefully before you invest or send money.

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A word about risk:
Investing in foreign denominated and/or domiciled securities may involve heightened risk due to currency fluctuations, and economic and political risks, which may be enhanced in emerging markets. Mortgage and asset-backed securities may be sensitive to changes in interest rates, subject to early repayment risk, and their value may fluctuate in response to the market’s perception of issuer creditworthiness; while generally supported by some form of government or private guarantee there is no assurance that private guarantors will meet their obligations. High-yield, lower-rated, securities involve greater risk than higher-rated securities; portfolios that invest in them may be subject to greater levels of credit and liquidity risk than portfolios that do not. Derivatives may involve certain costs and risks such as liquidity, interest rate, market, credit, management and the risk that a position could not be closed when most advantageous. Investing in derivatives could lose more than the amount invested. Diversification does not ensure against loss. The value of most bond funds and fixed income securities are impacted by changes in interest rates. Bonds and bond funds with longer durations tend to be more sensitive and more volatile than securities with shorter durations; bond prices generally fall as interest rates rise.

Past performance is not a guarantee or a reliable indicator of future results. For funds with at least a 3-yr history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating based on a risk-adjusted return measure that accounts for variation in a fund’s monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads and redemption fees) with an emphasis on downward variations and consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating is a weighted average of the performance figures for its 3-, 5- and 10-yr (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. Morningstar, Inc.® 2011. All rights reserved. The information contained herein; (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its affiliates; (2) may not be copied or distributed; (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Hollow stars represent a class of shares with inception dates that is different than the inception date of the fund. For the period prior to the inception date of these shares, performance information is based on the performance of the fund’s Institutional Class shares, adjusted to reflect the actual distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other expenses paid by the newer share class.


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