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PIMCO VIT CommodityRealReturn® Strat Ins
Release date as of 2025-05-31. Data on page is subject to change.
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  Fees and Expenses Taken from prospectus dated 2025-04-30  
Maximum Fees
Administrative 0.25%
Management 0.49%
12b-1 ---
Actual Fees
12b-1 ---
Management 0.74%
Expense Ratio 2.13%
(taken from annual report dated 2024-12-31)
Total Annual Operating Expense 2.29%
Waiver Data
Type Date %
ManagementFee Contractual --- 0.16
  Management
Inception Date: 2012-04-30
Mngr Name Stephen A. Rodosky
Mngr Start Date 2019-01-09
Biography
Mr. Rodosky is a Managing Director with Pacific Investment Management Company LLC ("PIMCO") and has managed the MainStay VP PIMCO Real Return Portfolio since 2019. He is a portfolio manager for real return and U.S. long duration strategies based in the Newport Beach office. He serves as head of talent management for portfolio management in the U.S. and previously led the firm's U.S. rates team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, Mr. Rodosky was vice president of institutional sales with Merrill Lynch. He has been in the investment management industry since 1995 and holds a master's degree in financial markets from Illinois Institute of Technology. He received an undergraduate degree from Villanova University.
Mngr Name Michael Cudzil
Mngr Start Date 2025-06-02
Biography
Mr. Cudzil is a managing director in the Newport Beach office, a senior member of the liability-driven investment portfolio management team and a generalist portfolio manager. He has served as chair of the Americas Portfolio Committee, as a rotating member on the PIMCO Investment Committee and as co-head of the agency MBS portfolio management team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2012, he worked as a managing director and head of pass-through trading at Nomura. Mr. Cudzil previously held similar roles at Bank of America and Lehman Brothers, as well as a senior trading position at Salomon Brothers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mngr Name Andrew Dewitt
Mngr Start Date 2022-02-01
Biography
Executive Vice President, PIMCO. Mr. DeWitt is a portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on commodity and multi-real asset strategies. Previously, he managed PIMCO’s portfolio associate group and focused on portfolio optimization and other technology initiatives. He has investment experience since 2006 and holds undergraduate degrees in economics and sociology from Brown University.
Mngr Name Greg E. Sharenow
Mngr Start Date 2018-11-01
Biography
Greg Sharenow is Managing Director, PIMCO. Mr. Sharenow is a portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on commodities, real assets, and inflation solutions. He leads PIMCO’s commodity portfolio management group. He also co-manages PIMCO’s Energy and Tactical Credit Opportunities strategy. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he was an energy trader at Hess Energy Trading, Goldman Sachs, and DE Shaw. He was previously senior energy economist at Goldman Sachs and before that, worked as a quantitative analyst in the Global Portfolio Analysis group at Goldman Sachs. His co-authored article, “Beating Benchmarks,” won the Second Annual Berstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Outstanding Article after it was published in the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has investment and financial services experience since 2000 and holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematical methods in the social sciences and in economics from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mngr Name Daniel He
Mngr Start Date 2025-06-02
Biography
Mr. He is an Executive Vice President and portfolio manager at Pacific Investment Management Company LLC ("PIMCO"). He has managed the MainStay VP PIMCO Real Return Portfolio since 2019. Mr. He is currently a member of the liquid products group specializing in real return and mortgage-backed securities and serves as a member of the Americas portfolio committee. Previously, he was a member of the global rates desk focusing on government bonds, foreign exchange, and interest rate derivatives. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he structured and traded derivative strategies for a global macro hedge fund. Mr. He has investment experience since 2005 and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also holds a master’s degree in financial engineering and an undergraduate degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore.
Investment Advisor(s)
Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC
Web Site
pvit.pimco-funds.com
Issuer
PIMCO
Subadvisor(s)
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