Fund Overview
Seeks attractive returns from high quality corporate bonds
Combining PIMCO’s forward-looking macroeconomic outlook and extensive bottom-up credit research, the fund helps investors take advantage of opportunities in higher-quality corporate bonds.
Why Invest in This Fund?
Attractive total return potential
The fund aims to provide investors with greater income potential relative to Treasuries and cash, as well as more income and less volatility in returns when compared to equity indexes.
Flexibility to enhance returns
The fund has the ability to broadly diversify across industries, issuers and regions of the corporate bond sector and can seek to add value through investments in high quality U.S. government bonds, mortgages and foreign bonds.
Extensive credit resources and research
Employing a disciplined approach to credit research, the fund accesses PIMCO’s team of more than 50 bottom-up credit investment professionals and utilizes top-down, bottom-up and valuation screens to identify what we believe are the most attractive opportunities in global credit markets.
Our Expertise
A longtime investment manager, Mark Kiesel is the CIO of Global Credit, the global head of PIMCO's corporate bond portfolio management group and a senior member of the investment strategy and portfolio management group.
PRIMARY BENCHMARK
Bloomberg U.S. Credit Index CAD Hedged
PRIMARY BENCHMARK DESCRIPTION
Bloomberg U.S. Credit Index CAD Hedged is an unmanaged index comprised of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified non-U.S. debentures and secured notes that meet the specified maturity, liquidity, and quality requirements. To qualify, bonds must be SEC-registered. This index was formerly known as the Bloomberg Credit Investment Grade Index. It is not possible to invest directly in an unmanaged index.
DISTRIBUTION FREQUENCY
Monthly with Daily Accrual
SERIES INCEPTION
14-09-2015