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All data as of 07.31.08, unless otherwise indicated. 
Allianz RCM Strategic Growth Fund A (ARCAX)
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Fund Overview
Highlights
  • An aggressive growth fund that targets mid- to large-cap stocks and industries that have substantial capital appreciation potential over the next 6-24 months, but appear inefficiently priced.
  • Uses derivatives to attempt to enhance investment returns, hedge against portfolio risks and/or obtain market exposure with reduced transaction costs.
  • May experience greater price volatility than funds employing less aggressive strategies; derivatives may either magnify or limit the Fund's gains and losses, depending upon the particular derivative strategies used.
Why Invest in this Fund

Allianz RCM Strategic Growth Fund aims to capture the best growth ideas of RCM's senior investment professionals and provide flexibility in how they manage equity exposure. While the Fund's returns will mainly be driven by its stock holdings, RCM may also use option strategies to exploit market inefficiencies and further express their investment thesis.
Investment Process

As a "bottom-up" manager, RCM evaluates each investment idea by assessing the company's prospects for growth, quality and valuation. RCM has two separate research platforms: Fundamental and GrassrootsSM Research. The investment team's extensive experience and proprietary investment tools allow information to be processed quickly. After the quantitative and qualitative information has been gathered, the Team constructs portfolios that are typically 80% bottom-up and 20% top-down. The top-down process leverages the expertise of our internal economics and investment staff, developing a perspective regarding relative sector performance. The Team selects the individual names that meet the firm's investment discipline and may add to the overall portfolio risk-adjusted return. The goal is to create a portfolio with growth characteristics above the benchmark.

 

Use of Derivatives

The Fund expects to engage in derivative transactions, which may have the effect of either magnifying or limiting the Fund's gains and losses. The Fund ordinarily expects to use derivative instruments in an attempt to enhance the Fund's investment returns, to hedge against market and other risks in the portfolio and/or to obtain market exposure with reduced transactions costs.
At A Glance
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Symbol
CUSIP
A Shares
ARCAX
018920769
Objective
Seeks capital appreciation

Primary Portfolio
Growth stocks of companies with market capitalizations of at least $500 million

Total Fund Assets (in millions)
$6.1

Inception Date
Mar 31, 2006

Dividend Frequency
Annual

Maximum Sales Charge
5.50%

Expense Ratio *
1.690%

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Manager
Raphael Edelman

Raphael Edelman is Co-Chief Investment Officer of the U.S. Large-Cap Core Equity Portfolio Management Team. He began his investment career in 1984 and has an MBA in Finance from New York University.

Manager
Todd G. Hawthorne

Todd G. Hawthorne has been vice president equity derivatives strategy, since joining RCM in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Todd spent four years with RS Investments as the Head of Equity Derivative Strategy for the Paisley hedge fund family. He received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and his BA from The Colorado College.

Management Firm
RCM Capital Management LLC (RCM)

San Francisco, California

A fundamental growth equity manager, RCM seeks to invest in high-quality companies using a bottom-up, research-driven investment strategy. Uniquely, RCM's research analysts are complemented by the firm's GrassrootsSM Research division, an extensive market research network.



> Management Commentary

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of this Fund carefully before investing. This and other information is contained in the Fund´s prospectus, which may be obtained by contacting your financial advisor, or by calling 888-877-4626. Click here for the Fund´s prospectus. Please read this prospectus carefully before you invest or send money.

*Expense Ratio reflects any contractual expense reductions currently in place for this fund.

 

Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Investment return and the principal value of an investment will fluctuate; shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed.

 

This is not an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument. It is presented only to provide information on investment strategies and opportunities. The material contains the current opinions of the author, which are subject to change without notice. Statements concerning financial market trends are based on current market conditions, which will fluctuate. References to specific securities and issuers are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as, recommendations to purchase or sell such securities.

 

The Fund will normally invest primarily in equity and equity-related securities of companies with market capitalizations of at least $500 million. The Fund expects to engage in derivative transactions, which may have the effect of either magnifying or limiting the Fund's gains and losses. The Fund may invest in companies located outside the United States, including emerging markets countries. Investing in foreign 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 is "non-diversified," which means that it may invest a significant portion of its assets in a relatively small number of issuers. The Fund ordinarily expects to have substantial exposure to companies in high-growth areas such as technology or health care. Concentrating investments in individual sectors may add additional risk and additional volatility compared to a diversified equity portfolio. The Fund may purchase securities in smaller companies and in initial public offerings (IPOs), which may be more volatile than investments in larger companies. The portfolio managers expect a high portfolio turnover rate, which may be 200% or more.

The Fund ordinarily expects to use derivative instruments in an attempt to enhance the Fund's investment returns, to hedge against market and other risks in the portfolio and/or to obtain market exposure with reduced transactions costs. In particular, the Fund intends to purchase call options on securities whose prices the portfolio management team believes will increase, and purchase and sell combinations of put and call options in an attempt to take advantage of stock price movements. The Fund may also employ additional strategies involving call and put options, futures and forward contracts, short sales, swap agreements and other derivative instruments with respect to securities, indices and other assets. Use of derivatives 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 those instruments.

The Fund's use of derivative instruments will often give rise to forms of leverage, which could have the effect of magnifying the Fund's gains and losses. Although it has no current intention to do so, the Fund also reserves the flexibility to borrow money for investment purposes. To the extent that the Fund uses or incurs leverage, an investment in the Fund will be more volatile and riskier than an investment in funds that do not use leverage.

 

GrassrootsSM Research is a division of RCM. Research data used to generate GrassrootsSM Research recommendations is received from reporters and field force investigators who work as independent contractors for broker-dealers. Those broker-dealers supply research to RCM and certain of its affiliates that is paid for by commissions generated by orders executed on behalf of RCM's clients.

 

PIMCO Funds and Allianz Funds are distributed by Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105-4800, www.allianzinvestors.com, 1-888-877-4626.

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

 

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All holdings are subject to change.

 

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