| Morningstar Fund Report | 05/04/2025 |  |
PIMCO GIS Asia Strategic Interest Bond Fund E Class USD Income |
| Performance History | 31/03/2025 |
| Growth of 1,000 (GBP) | Advanced Graph |
 | Fund | -4.0 | 0.1 | -2.2 | 8.8 | -0.5 |
| +/-Cat | -1.0 | 2.4 | -1.8 | 2.2 | 0.4 |
| +/-B’mrk | -0.9 | 2.7 | -3.4 | 2.1 | 0.1 |
| Category: Asia Bond | ||||||
| Category Benchmark: Morningstar Asia USD Brd Mk... | ||||||
| Key Stats | ||
| NAV 03/04/2025 | USD 7.11 | |
| Day Change | -1.53% | |
| Morningstar Category™ | Asia Bond | |
| ISIN | IE00B464Q616 | |
| Fund Size (Mil) 31/03/2025 | USD 247.92 | |
| Share Class Size (Mil) 31/03/2025 | USD 18.27 | |
| Max Initial Charge | - | |
| Ongoing Charge 14/02/2025 | 1.50% | |
| Morningstar Research |
| Analyst Report | 11/09/2024 Arvind Subramanian, Senior Analyst Morningstar, Inc |
Pimco GIS Asia Strategic Interest Bond is an income-focused Asian credit strategy helmed by experienced leaders and a deep supporting cast. However, we maintain our cautious view of the investment process given the strategy’s limited track record... | |
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| People | 24 |
| Parent | 24 |
| Process | 23 |
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| Investment Objective: PIMCO GIS Asia Strategic Interest Bond Fund E Class USD Income |
| The primary investment objective of the Fund is to seek to generate attractive and stable income. Long-term capital appreciation is a secondary objective. The Fund will seek to meet its objectives by investing in a broad array of Fixed Income Instruments which in the Investment Advisor’s view typically generate attractive levels of income. The Fund will generally allocate its assets among several investment sectors, which may include (i) high yield and investment grade bonds and other Fixed Income Instruments issued by corporations, governments, their agencies and instrumentalities located in the Asia ex-Japan countries; (ii) bonds and other Fixed Income Instruments issued by corporations, governments and issuers other than set out in (i); (iii) mortgage-related and other assetbacked securities (which are unleveraged); and (iv) foreign currency positions, including currencies of emerging market countries. |
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| Management | ||
Manager Name Start Date | ||
Stephen Chang 17/01/2020 | ||
Mohit Mittal 31/05/2019 | ||
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Inception Date 01/06/2010 | ||
| Category Benchmark | |
| Fund Benchmark | Morningstar Benchmark |
| JPM Asia Credit TR USD | Morningstar Asia USD Brd Mkt GR USD |
| Portfolio Profile for PIMCO GIS Asia Strategic Interest Bond Fund E Class USD Income | 31/12/2024 |
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| Growth Of 1000 (GBP) | 31/03/2025 |
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| Annual Returns (GBP) | 31/03/2025 | |||||||
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 31/03 | |
| Price Return | 4.72 | 8.27 | 3.69 | -4.03 | 0.14 | -2.22 | 8.82 | -0.51 |
| +/- Category | 1.55 | 1.84 | 0.42 | -1.00 | 2.40 | -1.77 | 2.25 | 0.37 |
| +/- Category Index | - | - | -0.02 | -0.92 | 2.67 | -3.41 | 2.13 | 0.10 |
| % Rank in Category | 28 | 20 | 41 | 71 | 31 | 82 | 10 | 17 |
| Trailing Returns (GBP) | 03/04/2025 | ||
| Total Returns | +/- Category | +/- Category Index | |
| 1 Day | -1.53 | -0.11 | -0.20 |
| 1 Week | -1.25 | -0.19 | -0.58 |
| 1 Month | -3.78 | -0.27 | -0.28 |
| 3 Months | -3.54 | 0.17 | -0.52 |
| 6 Months | 0.77 | 0.43 | 0.46 |
| YTD | -2.47 | 0.28 | -0.31 |
| 1 Year | 2.72 | 0.43 | -0.27 |
| 3 Years Annualised | 2.67 | 0.71 | 0.05 |
| 5 Years Annualised | 0.14 | -0.09 | 0.01 |
| 10 Years Annualised | 2.73 | -0.33 | -1.02 |
| Category: Asia Bond | |||
| Category Index: Morningstar Asia USD Brd Mkt GR USD | |||
| Quarterly Returns (GBP) | 31/03/2025 | |||
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |
| 2025 | -0.51 | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 3.51 | 1.48 | -2.02 | 5.73 |
| 2023 | -1.33 | -3.18 | 0.98 | 1.36 |
| 2022 | -4.27 | 0.73 | 4.39 | -0.51 |
| 2021 | -1.70 | 0.64 | 0.80 | -3.76 |
| 2020 | 1.52 | 7.23 | -2.48 | -2.32 |
| Morningstar Rating™(Relative to Category) | 28/02/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Category : Asia Bond | Click here to see our Methodology | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Volatility Measurements | 31/03/2025 | ||||||||||
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| Modern Portfolio Statistics | 31/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 |
| Standard Index | Best Fit Index | |
| Morningstar Asia USD Brd Mkt GR USD | JPM ACI Non Investment Grade TR USD | |
| 3-Yr Beta | 1.14 | 0.60 |
| 3-Yr Alpha | 0.61 | -2.49 |
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| Asset Allocation | 31/12/2024 |
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| Top 10 Holdings | 31/12/2024 |
| Portfolio NEW | |
| Total Number of Equity Holdings | 0 |
| Total Number of Bond Holdings | 290 |
| Assets in Top 10 Holdings | 25.72 |
| Name | Sector | Country | % of Assets | ||
 PIMCO US Dollar S/T Fl NAV Z USD Inc |  | Ireland | 9.38 | ||
| 10 Year Treasury Note Future Mar 25 | | United States | 5.03 | ||
 5 Year Treasury Note Future Mar 25 | | United States | 2.97 | ||
| Ultra 10 Year US Treasury Note Future...
| | United States | 2.14 | ||
| US Treasury Bond Future Mar 25 | | United States | 1.69 | ||
| Pakistan (Islamic Republic of) 6% | | Pakistan | 1.01 | ||
| Korea National Oil Corp. 5.25% | | Korea, Republic Of | 0.97 | ||
| Meituan LLC 0% | | China | 0.90 | ||
| AIA Group Ltd, Hong Kong 5.375% | | Hong Kong | 0.83 | ||
| Greenko Dutch BV 3.85% | | India | 0.80 | ||
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| Biography | |
| Stephen Chang, managing director, is head of the Asian Fixed Income team within the Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities (GFICC) group. Based in Hong Kong, his team is responsible for managing bond portfolios in the region and is active in Asian credit instruments across investment grade and high yield to local currency bonds and convertibles. In addition, his responsibilities include setting macro and asset allocation strategy as part of the broader emerging market debt team. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, Stephen worked with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong as senior interest rates and derivatives trader. Previously he was based in New York with Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, Inc. as a global fixed income portfolio analyst and was later appointed as a global fixed income portfolio manager. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Cornell University, an M.Sc. in management science from Stanford University and is a CFA charterholder. |
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| Fund Manager | Mohit Mittal |
| Manager Start Date | 31/05/2019 |
| Education |
| Indian Institute of Technology, B.S. |
| University of Pennsylvania, M.B.A. |
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| Biography | |
| Mr. Mittal is CIO Core Strategies and a managing director based in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee and a portfolio manager for fixed income multi-sector portfolios across the duration and credit spectrum. As CIO Core Strategies, Mr. Mittal has leadership and oversight responsibilities for long-only strategies across PIMCO's Low and Moderate Duration, Total Return, and Long Duration strategy suite. Morningstar named him winner of the 2020 U.S. Morningstar Award for Investing Excellence in the Rising Talent category. |
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| Fund Manager | Abhijeet Neogy |
| Manager Start Date | 01/08/2016 |
| Career Start Year | 2005 |
| Education |
| columbia business school, M.B.A. |
| Indian Institute of Technology |
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| Biography | |
| Mr. Neogy is a senior vice president and portfolio manager in the Singapore office, focusing on emerging market corporate debt. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2013, he worked in equities and derivatives trading at Barclays Capital in Hong Kong and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. He was previously an analyst with Deloitte Consulting in Washington, working with companies in the technology, insurance and bio-tech industries. He has 17 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. |
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