Morningstar Announces 2013 Fund Manager Award Winners

Morningstar recently announced its 2013 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners. The awards acknowledge managers who delivered impressive performance for the year, have shown excellent long-term risk-adjusted returns, and have been good stewards of fund shareholders’ capital.  Among the winners:

The Fixed-Income Fund Managers of the Year are Daniel J. Ivascyn and Alfred T. Murata with PIMCO Income.

The fund gained 4.8 percent in 2013, boosted by its core investment in non-agency mortgage-backed securities and smaller holdings in investment-grade and high-yield corporate securities. Ivascyn and Murata’s three- and five-year trailing returns have also been in the multi-sector bond category’s best quintile, and have kept the fund’s volatility below the average of its category's peers.

Source: Financial Advisor magazine

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PIMCO Income (PONDX) is a component of the D2 Capital Management Multi-Asset Income Portfolio. 

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