Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, and foreign clients. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, universities, foundations, endowments, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in alternative investments markets. The firm invests in value stocks of companies to create its portfolios. For fixed income, it invests in securities including governments, corporate, mortgages, asset backs, money market, and hedged international bonds while creating its portfolios. The firm employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches while making its investments.