PIMCO GIS Divers Inc E EURH Acc

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|27/01/2023

by Eric Jacobson
PIMCO GIS Diversified Income Fund's still ample staffing, analytical resources, and proven approach merit a ‎Morningstar Analyst Rating of Gold for its lowest-priced share classes along with Silver and Bronze ratings for ‎its more costly shares.‎

The December 2022 departure of comanager Eve Tournier hasn’t left this fund bereft of management ‎talent. Coinciding with her loss, Pimco shifted Sonali Pier into the role of lead day-to-day manager (a position she has held for several years on the strategy's U.S. domiciled offering), and added Charles Watford and Regina Borromeo to the team here, ‎alongside Alfred Murata and Dan Ivascyn (PIMCO’s group CIO). Watford joined ‎Pimco in 2007 and is a portfolio manager in the London office, focusing on high yield, with research ‎responsibilities for the European automotive and real estate sectors. Regina Borromeo joined Pimco in ‎September 2022 after spending four years at Robeco as a senior portfolio manager and director of ‎Global Macro Fixed Income. Given Pier’s oversight, Ivascyn and Murata’s assistance, and the addition ‎of more resources, the strategy retains its High People rating.‎

Pimco's selection of a benchmark that is well matched to the strategy’s investment universe is also ‎key to its appeal, given typical industry practice of running broad-ranging portfolios against bogeys ‎with much narrower parameters. This one’s custom-built index comprises roughly one third each in ‎investment-grade ‎corporates, high-yield corporates, and emerging-markets debt across the globe. ‎That gives the portfolio ‎considerable emerging-markets and global credit exposure, as well as a sometimes comparatively long duration. The latter ‎has been especially ‎notable given that global bond market durations have extended in recent years ‎while many managers have trimmed back duration.

‎That has occasionally knocked the portfolio off course, including during the first half of 2022. Losses in ‎its overall emerging-markets exposure (including some early-year exposure to Russia) were a drag, ‎but the impact was less than half as severe as ‎the pain caused by its interest-rate sensitivity (as ‎measured by duration), according to Pimco data. That was triggered by an historically unusual mix of ‎pain in ‎global credit markets along with an inflation spike and rising government bond yields. A similar ‎duration issue caused trouble ‎in 2021—despite relative success over the rest of the year--when yields spiked during that year's first quarter.

In the context of a decidedly aggressive credit mandate, the strategy benefits from a circumspect, ‎‎benchmark-aware style—a crucial source of structure given its many moving parts. The ‎strategy’s ‎trailing-returns data has been muted by its recent stumbles, but otherwise belies a history ‎that has ‎made it a compelling choice for global credit exposure.‎
 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™Pimco has added significant resources in the wake of a recent manager departure‎.
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleHigh
ParentAbove Average
ProcessHigh
 
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