PIMCO GIS GlInGd Crdt E EURH Acc

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|09/11/2023

by Jeana Marie Doubell
Pimco GIS Global Investment Grade Credit benefits from the skill of its veteran lead manager, the support of an impressive group of corporate bond specialists, and a versatile process that draws on the firm's robust macroeconomic and fundamental research. The strategy earns High People and Above Average Process Pillar ratings.

Lead manager Mark Kiesel, Pimco’s global credit CIO, boasts three decades of experience in global credit markets and has run this strategy since 2003. He is supported by Mohit Mittal, who oversees Pimco’s U.S. investment-grade, high-yield, and emerging-markets corporate trading desks, and Jelle Brons, a corporate credit specialist who leads the group’s sustainable credit lineup. This team of managers are further supported by an impressive cadre of corporate credit portfolio managers and analysts, as well as Pimco's plethora of quants, traders, and macro researchers. The firm's corporate credit effort, characterized by both impressive fundamental analysis and top-down value discipline, remains among the elite.

The team is not afraid to stretch its investment universe, often exploring off-benchmark opportunities in high-yield debt (typically 5% to 10% of the portfolio) and local-currency emerging-markets fare (typically 1% to 5% of the portfolio). This can lead the fund to underperform when more risky, lower-quality fare sells off, as noted by the fund’s recent struggles. For example, exposure to industries hurt by the pandemic in 2020 and stakes in hard-hit Russian and Chinese credits in 2022 took a toll in those years. Over the trailing three-year period though October 2023, the institutional USD Inc share class trails two thirds of peers in the USD hedged global corporate bond Morningstar Category and its benchmark, the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Credit Index.

Nonetheless, the strategy continues to stand out as an attractive offering in its category. Under Kiesel's watch, from August 2003 through September 2023, the strategy has generated excellent long-term results (returning 4.3% annualized), beating the average return in its peer group (3.4%) and its Bloomberg Global Aggregate Credit Index (3.7%). With its key strengths intact, this remains an attractive option for exposure to the global corporate credit markets.

 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™A solid choice for global corporate bond exposure.
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleHigh
ParentAbove Average
ProcessAbove Average
 
Morningstar Medalist RatingMorningstar assigns the Medalist Rating to funds that are qualitatively and quantitatively assessed through manager research and algorithmic processes. The assessment turns on three key “pillars” – People, Process, and Parent – that yield an estimate of how well a fund will perform before fees but after adjusting for risk.
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