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Filed pursuant to Rule 497(e)
File Nos.
333-148624
and 811-22167
ALLIANZ
FUNDS MULTI-STRATEGY TRUST
Supplement Dated December 31, 2012 to the
Statutory Prospectuses for Administrative Class, Institutional
Class and Class A, Class B, Class C,
Class D,
Class P and Class R Shares of Allianz Funds
Multi-Strategy Trust,
Dated April 2, 2012 (as revised June 1, 2012) (as
supplemented thereafter)
Disclosure Relating to Allianz AGIC Convertible Fund (the
Convertible Fund), Allianz AGIC Focused Opportunity
Fund (the Focused Opportunity Fund), Allianz AGIC
Global Managed Volatility Fund (the Global Managed
Volatility Fund), Allianz AGIC High Yield Bond Fund (the
High Yield Bond Fund), Allianz AGIC Micro Cap Fund
(the Micro Cap Fund), Allianz AGIC Ultra Micro Cap
Fund (the Ultra Micro Cap Fund), and Allianz AGIC
U.S. Emerging Growth Fund (the U.S. Emerging
Growth Fund, and together with the Convertible Fund, the
Focused Opportunity Fund, the Global Managed Volatility Fund,
the High Yield Bond Fund, the Micro Cap Fund, the Ultra Micro
Cap Fund and the U.S. Emerging Growth Fund, the AGIC
Funds); and Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2015 Fund
(the 2015 Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions
2020 Fund (the 2020 Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions 2025 Fund (the 2025 Fund), Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2030 Fund (the 2030 Fund),
Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2035 Fund (the 2035
Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2040 Fund (the
2040 Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2045
Fund (the 2045 Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions 2050 Fund (the 2050 Fund), Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2055 Fund (the 2055 Fund),
Allianz Global Investors Solutions Global Allocation Fund (the
Global Allocation Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions Global Growth Allocation Fund (the Global Growth
Allocation Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions
Retirement Income Fund (the Retirement Income Fund,
and together with the 2015 Fund, the 2020 Fund, the 2025 Fund,
the 2030 Fund, the 2035 Fund, the 2040 Fund, the 2045 Fund, the
2050 Fund, the 2055 Fund, the Global Allocation Fund and the
Global Growth Allocation Fund, the AGI Solutions
Funds)
Sub-Adviser
Name Change
Effective as of the close of business on December 31, 2012,
Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC (AGI Capital or
AGIC), the Sub-Adviser to the AGIC Funds, will be
renamed Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI
U.S.). All references to Allianz Global Investors
Capital LLC, AGI Capital and AGIC
will be changed accordingly.
Adviser
Restructuring
Effective January 1, 2013, Allianz Global Investors
Solutions LLC (AGI Solutions), the Sub-Adviser to
the AGI Solutions Funds, will be merged into AGI U.S. by
means of a statutory merger (the Adviser
Restructuring). AGI Solutions and AGI U.S. are each
direct, wholly-owned subsidiaries of their managing member,
Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC. Upon completion
of the Adviser Restructuring, AGI U.S. will succeed to the
advisory business of AGI Solutions. This will occur by operation
of law.
Effective as of January 1, 2013, the Prospectuses of the
AGI Solutions Funds will be revised to reflect the effect of the
Adviser Restructuring as follows:
Within the Fund Summary for each AGI Solutions Fund, the
information under the heading Sub-Adviser under
Management of the Fund will be changed from
Allianz Global Investors Solutions LLC (AGI
Solutions) to Allianz Global Investors
U.S. LLC (AGI U.S.).
Within the Fund Summary for each AGI Solutions Fund under
the heading Principal Investment Strategies and
within the subsection relating to the AGI Solutions Funds
entitled Principal Investments and Strategies of Each
Fund, references to AGI Solutions will be changed to AGI
U.S.
The section labeled Allianz Global Investors Solutions LLC
(AGI Solutions) in the table of Sub-Advisers
under the subsection Management of the Funds
Sub-Advisers is hereby deleted in its entirety and the
section labeled Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC
(AGIC) in the same table is hereby revised in
its entirety as follows:
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Sub-Adviser*
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Allianz Multi-Strategy Fund(s)
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Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI U.S.)
600 West Broadway
San Diego, CA 92101
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Allianz AGIC Convertible, Allianz AGIC Focused Opportunity,
Allianz AGIC Global Managed Volatility Fund, Allianz AGIC High
Yield Bond, Allianz AGIC Micro Cap Fund, Allianz AGIC Ultra
Micro Cap Fund, and Allianz AGIC U.S. Emerging Growth Fund (the
AGIC Funds); Allianz Global Investors Solutions
2015, Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2020, Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2025, Allianz Global Investors Solutions
2030, Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2035, Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2040, Allianz Global Investors Solutions
2045, Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2050, Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2055, Allianz Global Investors Solutions
Retirement Income, Allianz Global Investors Solutions Global
Growth Allocation and Allianz Global Investors Solutions Global
Allocation Funds (the AGI Solutions Funds)
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The section titled AGI Solutions under the subsection
Management of the Funds Sub-Advisers is
hereby deleted in its entirety.
The following information is hereby added to the end of the
table under Management of the Funds
Sub-Advisers AGI U.S.:
Stephen Sexauer and Paul Pietranico are the individuals at AGI
Solutions primarily responsible for selecting and allocating the
AGI Solutions Funds assets among the Underlying Funds and
other investments. James Macey is responsible for portfolio
implementation and trading and the coordination of the
investment teams due diligence research on underlying
managers. The following provides information about
Messrs. Sexauer, Pietranico and Macey. The Statement of
Additional Information provides additional information about the
portfolio managers compensation, other accounts managed by
each portfolio manager and the portfolio managers
ownership of the securities of the Funds.
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Portfolio
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Allianz Fund
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Managers
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Recent Professional Experience
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AGI Solutions Funds
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Stephen Sexauer
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2008,
2009,
2011*
(since
inception)
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Stephen Sexauer, Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. (previously the
Chief Investment Officer of Allianz Global Investors Solutions
LLC (AGI Solutions), which merged into AGI U.S. in
January 2013), has managed the AGI Solutions Funds since their
inception in June, 2008, and has been a Managing Director of
Allianz Asset Management of America LLC or one of its
subsidiaries since May, 2003. Mr. Sexauer has overall
responsibility for all investment functions at AGI Solutions and
is directly responsible for portfolio risk profiles, asset
allocation and fund selection. Mr. Sexauer was a portfolio
manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management from July
1989-March 2002 and worked at Salomon Brothers from November
1986-June 1989. Mr. Sexauer previously worked in Economic
Consulting at Merrill Lynch Economics and at Wharton
Econometrics. Mr. Sexauer holds an MBA from the University
of Chicago with concentrations in economics and statistics and a
BS from the University of Illinois in economics.
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Managers
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Since
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Recent Professional Experience
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Paul Pietranico,
CFA
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2008,
2009,
2011*
(since
inception)
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Paul Pietranico, CFA Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. (previously a
senior portfolio manager with AGI Solutions) has managed the AGI
Solutions Funds since inception in June, 2008.
Mr. Pietranico, with Stephen Sexauer, is directly
responsible for portfolio risk profiles, asset allocation and
fund selection. He joined Allianz Asset Management of America
L.P. in June 2005 as director of the due diligence, investment
risk analysis and performance reporting teams. Mr. Pietranico
worked at the Center for Investment Research at Charles Schwab
& Co. from 1996-2005, where most recently he was a director
of quantitative research. He worked on research and modeling for
Schwabs proprietary rating system for open-ended mutual
funds. He also spent several years working on research projects
relating to Schwabs investment advice offerings including
software tools for retirement planning, portfolio simulation,
risk analysis, asset allocation and portfolio construction.
Mr. Pietranico started his career at Schwab as a mutual
fund due diligence analyst. Mr. Pietranico holds a BS in
physics, an MA in philosophy of science and an MS in Engineering
Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford
University.
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James Macey, CFA,
CAIA
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2011
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James Macey, CFA, Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. (previously a
Portfolio Manager at AGI Solutions) has been a portfolio manager
since January, 2011. Mr. Macey is responsible for portfolio
implementation and trading and the coordination of the
investment teams due diligence research on underlying
managers. He joined Allianz Asset Management of America L.P. in
July 2006 as an analyst on the investment manager due diligence
and portfolio risk analysis team. Prior to that, he worked as an
equity research analyst at Lehman Brothers where he conducted
quantitative and fundamental equity research including relative
valuation, pair trading and statistical modeling. From
2000-2005, Mr. Macey worked at Bloomberg Financial Markets.
Mr. Macey holds an MSci (Hons.) in Astrophysics from University
College London.
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* The 2015, 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050 Target Date Funds and
Retirement Income Fund commenced operations on December 29,
2008. The Global Growth Allocation Fund commenced operations on
May 4, 2009. The 2025, 2035, 2045 and 2055 Target Date
Funds commenced operations on December 19, 2011. The Global
Allocation Fund was reorganized into the Trust on May 4,
2009, at which time Messrs. Sexauer and Pietranico began
managing the Fund.
All other references to Allianz Global Investors Solutions
LLC or AGI solutions are hereby changed to
Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC and AGI
U.S., respectively.
Disclosure
Relating to Allianz AGIC Global Managed Volatility
Fund
Within the Fund Summary relating to Allianz AGIC Global
Managed Volatility Fund, the subsection entitled
Management of the Fund Portfolio
Managers is hereby restated in its entirety as follows:
Kunal Ghosh, Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. (previously a Senior
Vice President and Head of the Systematic Investment Team at
AGIC), has managed the Fund since 2011.
Mark P. Roemer, Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. (previously a
Senior Vice President of AGIC), has managed the Fund since
January 2013.
The information relating to Allianz AGIC Global Volatility Fund
contained in the table under Management of the
Funds Sub-Advisers AGI U.S. in the
Prospectus is deleted and replaced with the following:
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Allianz Fund
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Managers
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AGIC Global Managed
Volatility Fund
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Kunal Ghosh
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2011
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Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. Formerly, Senior Vice President
and Portfolio Manager at AGIC and head of the Systematic
Investment Team. Prior to joining AGICs predecessor
affiliate in 2006, Mr. Ghosh was a research associate and
then portfolio manager for Barclays Global Investors, and a
quantitative analyst for the Cayuga Hedge Fund. Mr. Ghosh has
over 9 years of relevant experience.
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Mark P. Roemer
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2013
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Portfolio Manager at AGI U.S. Formerly, Senior Vice President
and Portfolio Manager at AGIC and a member of the Systematic
Investment Team. Prior to joining AGIC via a predecessor
affiliate in 2001, he was a principal and U.S. equity product
manager with Barclays Global Investors. Previously he was with
Kleinwort Benson Investment Management of London. Mr. Roemer
earned his Masters degree in finance from the London
Business School, his M.S. from Stanford University in their
joint masters program between the College of Engineering
and Stanford Business School and his B.S. from Virginia Tech.
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Please retain this Supplement for future reference.
Filed pursuant to Rule 497(e)
File Nos.
333-148624
and 811-22167
ALLIANZ
FUNDS MULTI-STRATEGY TRUST
Supplement Dated December 31, 2012 to the
Statement of Additional Information dated October 3, 2012
(as revised December 3, 2012)
Disclosure Relating to Allianz AGIC Convertible Fund (the
Convertible Fund), Allianz AGIC Focused Opportunity
Fund (the Focused Opportunity Fund), Allianz AGIC
Global Managed Volatility Fund (the Global Managed
Volatility Fund), Allianz AGIC High Yield Bond Fund (the
High Yield Bond Fund), Allianz AGIC Micro Cap Fund
(the Micro Cap Fund), Allianz AGIC Ultra Micro Cap
Fund (the Ultra Micro Cap Fund), and Allianz AGIC
U.S. Emerging Growth Fund (the U.S. Emerging
Growth Fund, and together with the Convertible Fund, the
Focused Opportunity Fund, the Global Managed Volatility Fund,
the High Yield Bond Fund, the Micro Cap Fund, the Ultra Micro
Cap Fund and the U.S. Emerging Growth Fund, the AGIC
Funds); and Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2015 Fund
(the 2015 Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions
2020 Fund (the 2020 Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions 2025 Fund (the 2025 Fund), Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2030 Fund (the 2030 Fund),
Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2035 Fund (the 2035
Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2040 Fund (the
2040 Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions 2045
Fund (the 2045 Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions 2050 Fund (the 2050 Fund), Allianz Global
Investors Solutions 2055 Fund (the 2055 Fund),
Allianz Global Investors Solutions Global Allocation Fund (the
Global Allocation Fund), Allianz Global Investors
Solutions Global Growth Allocation Fund (the Global Growth
Allocation Fund), Allianz Global Investors Solutions
Retirement Income Fund (the Retirement Income Fund,
and together with the 2015 Fund, the 2020 Fund, the 2025 Fund,
the 2030 Fund, the 2035 Fund, the 2040 Fund, the 2045 Fund, the
2050 Fund, the 2055 Fund, the Global Allocation Fund and the
Global Growth Allocation Fund, the AGI Solutions
Funds)
Sub-Adviser
Name Change
Effective as of the close of business on December 31, 2012,
Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC (AGI Capital or
AGIC), the Sub-Adviser to the AGIC Funds, will be
renamed Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI
U.S.). All references to Allianz Global Investors
Capital LLC, AGI Capital and AGIC
will be changed accordingly.
Adviser
Restructuring
Effective January 1, 2013, Allianz Global Investors
Solutions LLC (AGI Solutions), the Sub-Adviser to
the AGI Solutions Funds, will be merged into AGI U.S. by
means of a statutory merger (the Adviser
Restructuring). AGI Solutions and AGI U.S. are each
direct, wholly-owned subsidiaries of their managing member,
Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC. Upon completion
of the Adviser Restructuring, AGI U.S. will succeed to the
advisory business of AGI Solutions. This will occur by operation
of law.
Effective as of January 1, 2013, the Prospectuses of the
AGI Solutions Funds will be revised to reflect the effect of the
Adviser Restructuring as follows.
The first two sentences under the subsection Management of
the Trust Sub-Advisory and Portfolio Management
Agreements are hereby restated in their entirety as
follows.
The Manager employs Sub-Advisers to provide investment advisory
services to each Fund pursuant to sub-advisory agreements (each
a Sub-Advisory Agreement) between the Manager and
the particular Sub-Adviser. The Manager currently has five
investment management affiliates that are also indirect
subsidiaries of AAMA, two of which, NFJ Investment Group LLC
(NFJ) and Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC
(AGI U.S.), manage one or more of the Funds.
The section titled AGI Solutions under the
subsection Management of the Trust
Sub-Advisory and Portfolio Management Agreements is hereby
deleted in its entirety.
The following information is hereby added to the end of the
section titled AGI U.S. under the subsection
Management of the Trust Sub-Advisory and
Portfolio Management Agreements:
Pursuant to a Sub-Advisory Agreement between the Manager and AGI
U.S. (the AGI Solutions Sub-Advisory Agreement), AGI
U.S. is the Sub-Adviser and provides investment advisory
services to the Allianz Global Investors Solutions Funds.
Pursuant to the terms of the AGI Solutions Sub-Advisory
Agreement, AGI U.S. is responsible for managing, either directly
or through others selected by it, the investment of the Allianz
Global Investors Solutions Funds assets, subject to the
general oversight and supervision of the Manager and the Board
of trustees. For the services provided, the Manager (not the
Trust) pays AGI U.S. a monthly fee for each Fund at the
following annual rates (based on the average daily net assets of
the particular Fund): 0.05% for each of the Allianz Global
Investors Solutions Target Date Funds; and for the Global
Allocation Fund and Global Growth Allocation Fund 0.15% with
respect to Fund assets invested in other Funds of the Trust and
other investment companies or series thereof, and 0.60% with
respect to assets invested directly in securities and other
instruments.
The Allianz Global Investors Solutions Funds were previously
managed by Allianz Global Investors Solutions LLC (AGI
Solutions), which merged into AGI U.S. in January 2013.
AGI Solutions was organized in 2008 to manage discretionary
accounts investing primarily in certain affiliated mutual funds
and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsored by AAMA
and Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)
(the Underlying Funds).
The information which appears under the subheaders Other
Accounts Managed, Potential Conflicts of
Interest and Securities Ownership under
Management of the Trust Portfolio Manager
Compensation, Other Accounts Managed, Conflicts Of Interest And
Corporate Culture AGI Solutions is hereby
moved to the end of the corresponding sections titled,
Other Accounts Managed, Potential Conflicts of
Interest and Securities Ownership under
Management of the Trust Portfolio Manager
Compensation, Other Accounts Managed, Conflicts Of Interest And
Corporate Culture AGI U.S. The header titled
AGI Solutions under the subsection Management
of the Trust Portfolio Manager Compensation, Other
Accounts Managed, Conflicts Of Interest And Corporate
Culture and the section titled
Compensation-Compensation Structure for AGIS
directly thereunder is hereby deleted in its entirety.
All other references to Allianz Global Investors Solutions
LLC or AGI solutions are hereby changed to
Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC and AGI
U.S., respectively.
Disclosure
Relating to Allianz AGIC Global Managed Volatility
Fund
Information regarding Sherry Zhang is hereby deleted from the
SAI. The subsection captioned AGI U.S. in the
section titled Portfolio Manager Compensation, Other
Accounts Managed, Conflicts of Interest and Corporate
Culture under Management of the Trust is
revised to indicate that Mark P. Roemer has been added as a
portfolio manager of the Allianz AGIC Global Managed Volatility
Fund. Information regarding other accounts managed by
Mr. Roemer, as well as his ownership of securities of the
AGIC Global Managed Volatility Fund, each as of
November 30, 2012, is provided below.
Other
Accounts Managed
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Other Pooled Investment
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Other Registered
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Vehicles
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Other Accounts
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Investment Companies
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Portfolio Manager
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AUM ($ million)
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AUM ($ million)
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AUM ($ million)
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Mark P. Roemer
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5
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686.8
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14
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189.3
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4
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340.9
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Accounts
and Assets for which Advisory Fee is Based on
Performance
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Other Pooled Investment
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Other Registered
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Vehicles
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Other Accounts
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Investment Companies
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Portfolio Manager
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AUM ($ million)
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AUM ($ million)
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AUM ($ million)
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Mark P. Roemer
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1
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361.7
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2.7
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Securities
Ownership
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AGIC Global Managed Volatility
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Dollar Range of Equity
Securities
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Mark P. Roemer
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$500,000 - $1,000,000
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