Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC is following up the success of the Pimco Total Return ETF Ticker:(BOND) with three more actively managed exchange-traded funds that mimic existing bond funds.
The Newport Beach, Calf.-based firm has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch ETF versions of its $23.8 billion Pimco Real Return Fund Ticker:(PRTNX), $21.3 billion Pimco Low-Duration Fund Ticker:(PTLAX) and the $5.7 billion Pimco Diversified Income Fund Ticker: (PDVAX).
The Real Return Fund and the Diversified Income Fund will have the same managers, Mihir Worah and Curtis Mewbourne, respectively, as their mutual fund counterparts.
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Bond guru Bill Gross, manager of the Low-Duration Fund, will not be handling the reigns of the ETF version. Instead, Marc Seidner will.
Mr. Gross has had considerable success with the ETF version of the $1.2 trillion Pimco Total Retun Fund Ticker:(PTTAX).
The ETF has grown to $1.28 billion in just over three full months of trading. It's also outperformed its mutual fund sibling. The Total Return ETF has had a return of almost 5% since its launch. Over the same time period, the mutual fund has had a return of almost 2%. The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index has been basically flat over the same time period.
