PIMCO GIS Global Bond Fund (Hedged) Institutional Hedged - Accumulation (GBP)

Mr. Balls is CIO Global, a managing director in the London office and a member of the Investment Committee. He is head of European portfolio management, leading PIMCO's European investment team (which is based in London and Munich), and he also oversees PIMCO's investment teams in the Asia Pacific region. He manages a range of global and European portfolios, including PIMCO's Global Advantage strategy, combining developed and emerging fixed income markets. Mr. Balls was previously a portfolio manager in Newport Beach and the firm's global strategist. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, he spent eight years at the Financial Times as an economics correspondent and columnist in London, New York and Washington, DC. He has 16 years of investment experience and holds a bachelor's degree from Oxford and a master's degree from Harvard University. He was a lecturer in economics at Keble College, Oxford.

Mr. Gupta is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the London office and manages European LDI portfolios. He also focuses on investments in European government bond markets, credit derivatives on sovereigns and interest rate derivatives in G-7 markets. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2003, he was in the fixed income and currency derivatives group at ABN AMRO Bank. He has 15 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from XLRI, India. He received an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Dr. Pagani is a managing director 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 12 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.