Fund Description
The PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund (Ticker: BOND) is a diversified portfolio of high quality bonds that is actively managed, seeking current income and long-term capital appreciation, consistent with prudent investment management. BOND invests primarily in investment grade debt securities, and discloses all portfolio holdings on a daily basis. The Fund will seek to maintain a fairly consistent level of dividend income, and generally seeks to manage capital gain distributions. However, there can be no assurance that a change in market conditions or other factors will not result in a significant change in the Fund’s distribution rate or that the rate will be sustainable in the future. With a primary benchmark of the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index, the fund offers a core bond strategy that is designed to capitalize on opportunities across multiple sectors of the fixed income market.
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Portfolio Management
David Braun
Mr. Braun is a managing director and generalist portfolio manager in the New York office. Mr. Braun joined PIMCO in 2009 and is head of the U.S. financial institutions group (FIG) and stable value portfolio management teams. He is also a senior member of both the liability-driven investment and the U.S. core portfolio management teams. He oversees management of fixed income investment portfolios for institutional and retail clients. Mr. Braun has 25 years of investment, risk management (including chief risk officer of a large investment company) and actuarial experience. He holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a certified Financial Risk Manager.
Jerome Schneider
Mr. Schneider is a managing director in the Newport Beach office and head of short-term portfolio management and funding. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year (U.S.) for 2015. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, Mr. Schneider was a senior managing director with Bear Stearns. There he most recently specialized in credit and mortgage-related funding transactions and helped develop one of the first "repo" conduit financing companies. Additionally, during his tenure at Bear Stearns he held various positions on the municipal and fixed income derivatives trading desks. He has 24 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics and international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Daniel Hyman
Mr. Hyman is a managing director and head of the agency mortgage portfolio management team in the Newport Beach office. He is the lead portfolio manager on PIMCO's Ginnie Mae and Mortgage Opportunities Strategies. Mr. Hyman and team have been recognized by Lipper for their long-term performance on both of these flagship mortgage strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, Mr. Hyman was a vice president at Credit Suisse, where he traded agency pass-throughs. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from Lehigh University.
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