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Global Advantage Strategy

Article Main Body

Strategy Overview

PIMCO Global Advantage is a strategic platform designed to help fixed-income investors seize opportunities produced by dramatic secular shifts in the global economy. The strategy utilizes fixed-income securities from both developed and developing markets, and is benchmarked to the proprietary PIMCO Global Advantage Bond Index (GLADI™), a GDP-weighted index intended to offer investors an improved fixed-income market “beta”.

Applications for the Global Advantage Bond Strategy

The Global Advantage Bond Strategy Provides Investors with the Potential for:

  • First mover advantage due to strategic positioning where opportunities are likely to be, not where they have been
  • Attractive risk-return characteristics of a multi-currency, multi-sector bond portfolio
  • Opportunity to benefit from active management driven by long-term, thematically focused investment process
Sources of Added Value

While the GLADI may provide an attractive beta opportunity and serves as the strategy’s starting point, the Global Advantage Bond Strategy also benefits from PIMCO’s breadth of investment experience, allowing the complete expression of PIMCO’s best investment ideas. Having an experienced active fixed-income manager is essential to seizing the potential and managing the risks in this new world, particularly where vast expertise in both developed and emerging markets is required. With the firm’s secular and cyclical forum process as a foundation, the Global Advantage management team works with PIMCO’s Global Investment Committee to seek out potential sources of added value around the world.

PIMCO’s disciplined active management is ideally suited to add value on two levels: with macro-level, top-down strategies and security-level, bottom-up strategies. PIMCO’s disciplined top-down cyclical and secular investment process is ideally suited for asset allocation and global macro calls, while our global presence and specialty desks focus on providing the Global Advantage Bond Strategy with top trades from bottom-up credit and security analysis.

Risk Management/Controls

PIMCO’s time-tested risk controls are a central component of our portfolio management. The process relies on analytical tools that measure and monitor portfolio volatility, and PIMCO has invested considerable resources in developing proprietary models to help with this analysis. These models include our Bonds Under Management report which gives extensive summary information of portfolio holdings; a Risk Optimizer which indicates an optimum portfolio structure for a set of expected returns, volatilities and correlations; and our proprietary Level, Slope and Curvature model, which was designed to give a more accurate measure of individual security and portfolio risk than traditional duration and convexity analysis can allow.

Extensive use of analytical models allows us to leverage our investment professionals and provides a dispassionate check on our investment decisions. It also permits us to perform attribution analysis to determine which strategies consistently add value.

How To Invest

  • Separate Accounts
  • Mutual Funds
Article Disclaimer
Past performance is not a guarantee or a reliable indicator of future results. All investments contain risk and may lose value. 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. Investing in the bond market is subject to certain risks including market, interest-rate, issuer, credit, and inflation risk. PIMCO strategies utilize derivatives which 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.  There is no guarantee that these investment strategies will work under all market conditions and each investor should evaluate their ability to invest for a long-term especially during periods of downturn in the market. Diversification does not ensure against loss. 
 
The PIMCO Global Advantage Bond Index (GLADI) is a diversified global index that covers a wide spectrum of global fixed income opportunities and sectors, from developed to emerging markets, nominal to real assets, and cash to derivative instruments. Unlike traditional indices, which are frequently comprised of bonds weighted according to their market capitalization, GLADI uses GDP-weighting which puts an emphasis on faster-growing areas of the world and thus makes the index forward-looking in nature. It is not possible to invest directly in an unmanaged index.
 

This material contains the current opinions of the manager and such opinions are subject to change without notice. This material has been distributed for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice or a recommendation of any particular security, strategy or investment product.

 

How To Invest

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