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As of 5/20/2013
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The PIMCO Germany Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund is the only U.S. exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to provide focused exposure to euro-denominated, investment grade bonds issued by German issuers. The fund seeks total returns that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the BofA Merrill Lynch Diversified Germany Bond IndexSM. This index encompasses euro-denominated investment grade bonds issued by German entities, including sovereign, quasi-government, corporate, securitized and collateralized debt.
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Lorenzo Pagani Dr. Pagani is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the Munich office and head of the European government bond and European rates desk. He is also a member of the European portfolio committee and a member of the counterparty risk committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2004, he was with the nuclear engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and with Procter & Gamble in Italy. He has 10 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT. He graduated from the Financial Technology Option program of MIT/Sloan Business School and holds a joint master of science degree from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy and the Ecole Centrale de Paris in France.
As of 4/30/2013
Index Description
The BofA Merrill Lynch Diversified Germany Bond Indexsm tracks the performance of large, Euro (“EUR”)- denominated investment grade debt instruments of German issuers publicly issued in the eurobond or Euro member domestic markets, including sovereign, quasi-government, corporate, securitized and collateralized securities. All Qualifying securities must be an obligation of a German entity with at least one year remaining term to final maturity and a fixed coupon schedule. Qualifying German sovereign securities must have a minimum amount outstanding of EUR 1 billion. Qualifying non-sovereign securities must have a minimum amount outstanding of EUR 500million and must be rated investment grade. Index constituents are capitalization-weighted adjusted, as necessary, to meet issuer concentration limits. The Underlying Index is rebalanced on the last calendar day of the month. It is not possible to invest directly in an unmanaged index.
As of 3/31/2013
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