PIMCO GIS Em Mkts Bd E EURH Acc

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|25/03/2024

by Shannon Kirwin
Pimco Emerging Markets Bond benefits from prudent portfolio construction and a large and well-resourced team. Continued improvements to its investment process have earned a Process Pillar upgrade to High from Above Average.

The team's turnover has been elevated in recent years, but its strengths are enough to offset this. Yacov Arnopolin joined Pimco in 2016 and took over this strategy in 2019 when former leader Michael Gomez left the firm. Comanager and Pimco veteran Javier Romo runs the firm's hard-currency emerging-markets strategies alongside Arnopolin. Pramol Dhawan, Pimco's head of emerging-market debt, is also closely involved in overseeing the strategy and has implemented a host of process enhancements here in the roughly five years since he took over the team. Despite churn across the ranks, including six portfolio manager departures in the last two years, the group remains larger and more experienced than most. Pimco's formidable credit, economist, and rates teams provide additional backing as well; the managers incorporate their research and investment ideas to good effect.

The strategy's approach, which draws upon Pimco's strong macroeconomic expertise and vast analytical resources, has undergone positive changes and remains consistent at its core. The team looks for bonds issued by countries it believes have the best mix of an improving economic outlook and policy flexibility. This fundamental approach is augmented by a diversified set of quant-driven strategies aimed at reducing trading costs and exploiting inefficiencies in the emerging-markets debt market. These include models that select between cash bonds and derivatives, seek to optimize the timing of portfolio rebalancing to account for index changes and market flows, or look for relative value across yield curves and currencies.

This structured approach, backed by significant technological and personnel resources, puts the strategy head and shoulders above most category peers. It has also resulted in an improved risk profile and benchmark- and peer-group-beating results since Arnopolin's 2019 promotion to lead manager. All things considered, investors here are in very good hands.

 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™This strategy has what it takes.
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleAbove Average
ParentAbove Average
ProcessHigh
 
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