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Nicholas-Applegate Global Equity & Convertible Income Fund (NGZ)
About this Fund Performance Portfolio Literature
Fund Overview
Highlights
  • The Fund invests in a portfolio of approximately 65% equity securities (with a range of 40%–80%) and 35% convertible securities (with a range of 20%–60%).  The initial geographic allocation is roughly 50% international and 50% U.S. securities.
  • The Fund takes a total return approach, striving to participate in a portion of equity upside potential combined with downside risk management from investments in convertibles.
  • The Fund will strive to enhance yield and reduce risk by employing an option strategy of writing (selling) call options on stocks held in the portfolio. The Fund will ordinarily write call options with respect to 70% of the value of the equity securities.
Investment Process
  • The Fund’s managers have the flexibility to analyze a company’s entire capital structure to determine what it believes are the best equity-related investment opportunities around the world.
  • In its equity investing, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management combines a systematic process and qualitative judgment. Companies are evaluated for strong fundamentals, such as above-average earnings growth, high return on invested capital and healthy or improving balance sheet.
  • Convertibles are assessed for both their equity- and bond-related traits. Among the latter are credit quality and the ability to pay income and return principal.
  • Call options are generally written “out of the money” with a strike price about 5% higher than the market value of the underlying securities at the time, in order to retain some of the equity portfolio’s upside potential.
At A Glance
Symbol Lookup
Symbol
CUSIP
NGZ
65370L108
Objective
Seeks total return comprised of capital appreciation, current income and gains.

Assets (in millions)
Common $141.6
Preferred
Total $141.6

Inception Date
Sep 28, 2007

Shares Outstanding
7,004,189

Avg. Daily Volume
36,328

NAV Yield
12.67%

Market Price Yield
13.17%

Taxable Equivalent Yield
-

Managers
Douglas Forsyth

Douglas Forsyth, C.F.A., is Senior Portfolio Manager and a member of NACM's Executive Committee. He joined the firm in 1994 and has a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa.

Horacio Valeiras

Horacio Valeiras is Chief Investment Officer of the firm as well as Head of the research team that oversees Nicholas-Applegate's systematic equity strategies.

Management Firm
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC (NACM)

San Diego, California

Nicholas-Applegate applies a change-focused investment philosophy to domestic and international portfolios across fundamental and systematic equity, income and growth strategies. Each strategy in the firm's diverse line-up follows one of two signature approaches: traditional or model-driven.

This information is intended for informational purposes only. This is not an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument.
 
The Fund is a closed-end exchange traded investment company. The material on this website is presented only to provide information and is not intended for trading purposes. Closed-end funds, unlike open-end funds, are not continuously offered. After the initial public offering, shares of closed-end funds are sold in the open market through a stock exchange. For additional information, contact your financial advisor or call 1-800-331-1710. Investment policies, management fees and other matters of interest to prospective investors may be found in each closed-end fund prospectus.
 
The primary objective of the Fund is to seek total return comprised of capital appreciation, current income and gains. The Fund's Equity Component will ordinarily consist of common stocks, but may also include other types of equity securities, including preferred stocks, depository receipts, rights and warrants. The Fund ordinarily expects to focus its equity investments in companies with larger market capitalizations in relation to other companies in their particular markets, but may invest in securities of companies of any size.  The non-U.S. companies in which the Fund invests may have market capitalizations that are small in relation to larger U.S. companies. Investing in non-U.S. securities entails additional risks, including political and economic risk and the risk of currency fluctuations; these risks may be enhanced in emerging markets. The Fund may purchase securities in initial public offerings.
 
The Fund's Convertible Component will ordinarily consist principally of income-producing convertible securities of U.S and non-U.S. issuers, including bonds, debentures, notes, preferred stocks, and other securities or investments that may be converted or exchanged (by the holder or issuer) into equity securities of the issuer (or cash or securities of equivalent value), as well as synthetic convertible securities. Investing in convertible securities may entail risk. The Funds that invest in convertibles may have to convert the securities before they would otherwise, which may have an adverse effect on the Fund's ability to achieve its investment objective. The Convertible Component may include convertible and other debt securities that are of below investment grade quality. High-yield bonds typically have a lower credit rating than other bonds. Lower rated bonds generally involve a greater risk to principal than higher rated bonds.
 
The Fund will employ its Option Strategy by writing (selling) call options on stocks held in the Equity Component and on equity indexes. The Fund may also utilize other derivative strategies involving call and put options, futures and forward contracts, swap agreements, short sales and other derivative instruments for investment purposes or in an attempt to hedge against market and other risks in the portfolio. Use of derivative instruments may involve certain costs and risks such as liquidity risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, management risk and the risk that a fund could not close out a position when it would be most advantageous to do so. Portfolios investing in derivatives could lose more than the principal amount invested in these instruments.

 

When using index options, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC (“NACM”) will attempt to maintain for the Fund written call options positions on equity indexes whose price movements, taken in the aggregate, are closely correlated with the price movements of corresponding stocks and other securities held in the Fund’s Equity Component. However, this strategy involves significant risk that the changes in value of the indexes underlying the Fund’s written index call options positions will not correlate closely with changes in the market value of securities held by the Fund. To the extent that there is a lack of correlation, movements in the indexes underlying the options positions may result in net losses to the Fund which exceed any gains received by the Fund from options premiums and any increase in value of the Fund’s corresponding portfolio securities.
 
Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC, is an indirect, majority-owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P., and is a member of Munich-based Allianz Group (NYSE | AZ). Allianz is a leading global financial services company. Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC serves as the Funds' investment manager, and the sub-adviser is Nicholas Applegate Capital Management LLC.

 

Investment Products: NOT FDIC INSURED | MAY LOSE VALUE | NOT BANK GUARANTEED