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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM N-CSR

 

 

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-06161

 

 

Allianz Funds

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

 

1633 Broadway, New York, New York   10019
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)

 

 

Scott Whisten

1633 Broadway,

New York, New York 10019

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 212-739-3367

Date of fiscal year end: June 30

Date of reporting period: June 30, 2019

 

 

 


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ITEM 1. REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS

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Allianz Funds

 

SHARE CLASSES A, C, R, P, INSTITUTIONAL, R6, ADMINISTRATIVE

Annual Report

June 30, 2019

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund

AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund

AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund

AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund

AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund

AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund

AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund

AllianzGI Technology Fund

 

 

This material is authorized for use only when preceded or accompanied by the current Allianz Funds prospectus. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of each Fund carefully before investing. This and other information is contained in the Funds’ prospectus or summary prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest or send money.

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the reports will be made available on the Funds’ website (us.allianzgi.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications from a Fund electronically anytime by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you are a direct investor, by enrolling at us.allianzgi.com/edelivery.

If you prefer to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports after January 1, 2021, direct investors may inform a Fund at any time. If you invest through a financial intermediary, you should contact your financial intermediary directly. Paper copies are provided free of charge and your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with the fund complex if you invest directly with a Fund or all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary.

 

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  2–3      Letter from the President  
  4–58      Fund Summaries  
  60–62      Important Information  
  63–64      Benchmark Descriptions  
  65–90      Schedules of Investments  
  92–99      Statements of Assets and Liabilities  
  100–103      Statements of Operations  
  104–109      Statements of Changes in Net Assets  
  110–137      Financial Highlights  
  138–168      Notes to Financial Statements  
  169      Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
 
  170      Changes to the Board of Trustees  
  171      Federal Income Tax Information  
  172-177      Matters Relating to the Trustees’ Consideration of the Investment Advisory Agreement  
  178-179      Privacy Policy  
  180-182      Board of Trustees and Officers  

 

A Word About Risk: A fund may be subject to various risks as described in its prospectus. Some of those risks may include, but are not limited to, the following: fixed-income risk, liquidity risk, derivatives risk, smaller company risk, non-US investment risk, focused investment risk and specific sector investment risks. Below investment grade securities involve a greater risk to principal than investment grade securities. Bond prices will normally decline as interest rates rise. The impact may be greater with longer-duration bonds. The market for certain securities may become illiquid, which could prevent a fund from purchasing or selling these securities at an advantageous time or price and possibly delay redemptions of fund shares. Use of derivative instruments may involve certain costs and risks such as liquidity risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit and counterparty risk, management risk and the risk that a fund is unable to close out a position when it is most advantageous to do so. Portfolios investing in derivatives could lose more than the principal amount invested in those instruments. Investing in foreign securities may entail risk due to foreign economic and political developments; this risk may be enhanced when investing in emerging markets. Smaller companies may be more volatile than larger companies and may entail more risk. Concentrating investments in individual sectors may add additional risk and additional volatility compared to a diversified equity portfolio. The principal values of the funds are not guaranteed at any time. Please refer to the applicable fund’s current prospectus for complete details.


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Letter from the President

 

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Thomas J. Fuccillo

President & CEO

Dear Shareholder,

The US economic expansion continued during the 12-month fiscal reporting period ended June 30, 2019. In contrast, economic growth overseas weakened. Over this period, global equities generated mixed results. Meanwhile, the overall US bond market posted a strong return during the period.

The 12-Month Fiscal Period in Review

For the 12-month period ended June 30, 2019, US stocks returned 10.42%, as measured by the S&P 500 Index. Two measures of stock performance in developed international and global markets produced weak results, in dollar-denominated terms, with the MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia and Far East) Index returning 1.08% and the MSCI World Index returning 6.33%. Elsewhere, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index returned 1.21% in dollar-denominated terms. With respect to bonds, the Bloomberg Barclays US Credit Index returned 10.34% and the Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Index returned 7.76%. The Bloomberg Barclays US Government Bond Index returned 4.88%, while the broader bond market, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, returned 7.87%.

Turning to the US economy, gross domestic product (“GDP”), the value of goods and services produced in the country, the broadest measure of economic activity and the principal indicator of economic performance, expanded at a 2.9% and 1.1% annual pace during the third and fourth quarters of 2018, respectively. The US economy then grew at a 3.1% annual pace during the first quarter of 2019. Finally, the Commerce Department’s initial reading showed that the economy expanded at a 2.1% annual pace in the second quarter of the year.

Looking back, the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) raised rates four times in 2018, with the last hike pushing the federal funds rate to a range between 2.25% and 2.50%. However, at its January 2019 meeting, the Fed indicated that it expected to pause from tightening monetary policy as it monitored incoming economic data. Then, at its June 2019 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (the “Committee”) communicated that it “continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee’s symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes, but uncertainties about this outlook have increased.” In his press conference after the meeting Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated, “The case for somewhat more accommodative policy has strengthened.” Finally, at its meeting that concluded on July 31, 2019, after the reporting period ended, the Fed lowered the federal funds rate to a range between 2.00% and 2.25%. This was the Fed’s first rate cut since 2008.

 

 

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Economic growth outside the US weakened during the reporting period and the European Central Bank (“ECB”) and the Bank of Japan largely maintained their accommodative monetary policies. In June 2019, the ECB announced that it now expects to keep interest rates “at their present levels at least through the first half of 2020.” Later in the month, ECB President Mario Draghi said the central bank would consider how to adapt their policy tools “commensurate to the severity of the risk” to the economic outlook. In other developed countries, the Bank of England raised rates from 0.50% to 0.75% in August 2018, but then remained on hold through the remainder of the year.

Outlook

After a strong start to 2019, the markets abruptly turned volatile. In our opinion, the global economy looks increasingly fragmented, and our outlook calls for more unease over trade tensions and politics.

The outcome of US-China trade negotiations seems uncertain and we currently see only slightly better-than-even odds of the two countries signing a much-needed agreement. Without a deal, US tariffs could expand into consumer-oriented areas, increasing the prices of imported goods. The Fed will watch inflation closely, especially if more trade tariffs are implemented. The US central bank may be less inclined to keep rates low if inflation moves higher, which could undermine support for high stock prices. Still, while the US economy remains late-cycle, it isn’t yet facing a recession.

 

The second half of 2019 will be important for the European Union as it appoints new members to its leadership team. Support for mainstream pro-European parties held up in recent Parliamentary elections, but the legislative body will likely end up more fragmented and decision-making could slow. Meanwhile, in the UK, economic and corporate uncertainty is being prolonged by the extension of the Brexit decision until October 31, 2019. The election of a new Prime Minister raises additional questions about the future path of Brexit and policymaking overall.

With political uncertainty high, investors might consider pivoting towards income-generating investments—but with low to negative yields on many bonds and cash, we believe the biggest risk is still to take no risk. In our view, it will be important to take an active approach to investing. This approach could involve watching out for high-priced assets and taking contrarian positions when attractive valuations can be found.

 

On behalf of Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC, the Funds’ investment adviser, thank you for investing with us. We encourage you to consult with your financial advisor and to visit our website, us.allianzgi.com, for additional information. We remain dedicated to serving your investment needs.

Sincerely,

 

LOGO

Thomas J. Fuccillo

President & CEO

 

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Unless otherwise noted, index returns reflect the reinvestment of income dividends and capital gains, if any, but do not reflect fees, brokerage commissions or other expenses of investing. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

 

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AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Lu Yu, CFA, CIPM, Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) returned -3.29%, underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 1.21%.

Market Overview

Emerging markets were influenced by rapidly changing investor sentiment, which was marked by stark differences between the first half and second half of the reporting period. Initially, the asset class performance was negatively impacted by apprehension over a global trade war between the US and China, mounting geopolitical tensions in Russia and concerns of rising inflation expectations which could lead the US Federal Reserve to accelerate rate hikes. Emerging market currencies broadly declined as result of a moderation in asset class sentiment and earnings estimates were subsequently lowered. These headwinds were present during the first half of the reporting period with July and November the only positive performance months to counteract this trend. Emerging markets equities rebounded in the second half of the reporting period as the asset class was initially buoyed by expectations that central banks would slow the pace of rate hikes. In addition, the market remained hopeful for an eventual trade resolution between the US and China, which had been an overhang for the asset class for the past year. The seesawing market changed course with a broad-based decline in May as market participants were surprised by the escalating trade tensions between the US and China, with both countries imposing new tariffs on each other’s exports, which led to a spike in volatility. Emerging markets equities advanced in June as the potential for central bank rate cuts inched higher and headwinds from a strengthening US dollar eased.

Regional results were led by a nearly 19% gain in Latin American equities. Brazil was the standout performer, advancing close to 40% amid optimism over the reform agenda of newly-elected President Jair Bolsanaro and the potential for government pension reform. With the exception of a low-single-digit gain in Peru, all other countries in the region were lower for the period. Emerging European shares were up more than 16% for the period, led by a 28% gain in Russian equities amid higher energy demand and improving economic growth figures. Meanwhile, geopolitical risks in Turkey and Greece results in both countries posting losses. Asian equities rounded out the three primary regions with a 2% loss. The Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia each notched gains north of 20% thanks to improving growth outlooks. Meanwhile, China was down close to 7% for the period due to rising trade and tariff tensions with the United States. The escalating trade rhetoric also impacted South Korea, which was down nearly 9% for the reporting period.

The benchmark index performance was mixed, with 7 out of 11 sectors advancing. Energy led gains to the upside with a greater than 16% advance, followed by low-double-digit gains in financials and real estate. Meanwhile, health care was the primary laggard, declining nearly 25% during the reporting period amid rising uncertainty over future earnings growth. Information technology, consumer discretionary and materials sectors posted single-digit losses.

Portfolio Review

The Fund’s strategy seeks to deliver outperformance over time by investing in emerging market companies that are benefiting from change not yet fully reflected in the market, via the team’s behavioral finance-focused investment process.

During the twelve-month period, Fund results trailed the benchmark due to a handful of idiosyncratic effects as well as the outperformance of high growth and high beta names within the benchmark, which the Fund is generally underweight.

From a country standpoint, bottom-up stock selection in South Africa and India contributed to results as did a relative overweight allocation to Russia. Meanwhile, stock selection in South Korea and Taiwan offset results as did the underweight to Brazil, which benefitted from a rebound in investor sentiment. A sizeable underweight to the health care proved advantageous given the performance challenges in the sector as was an overweight allocation to the energy sector which benefitted from higher demand. Alternatively, bottom-up selections in materials, financials and consumer discretionary names detracted from relative performance during the reporting period.

Outlook

Emerging market equities remain affected by the “tug-of-war” between compelling stock-level opportunities and prevailing macroeconomic crosscurrents. Market participants were thrown for a surprise when the prospects for a trade agreement between the United States and China took a step backward, leading to a greater level of uncertainty as to when or even if the dispute will be resolved. While we believe the long-term potential for earnings growth remains intact, including expectations of double-digit earnings growth in the upcoming two calendar years, the persistent trade and tariff dispute continues to cloud the near-term outlook. However, inflation risks remain subdued, which could result in central banks cutting interest rates in the future. This may bode well for higher risk asset classes such as emerging market equities.

We continue to construct the Fund on a bottom-up basis with conviction at the stock level. In addition, we apply a dual risk-budget, targeting a tracking error of 4-5% and lower forecast risk than the benchmark, which we believe may help protect capital during inevitable down market periods and provide our clients with a greater level of return consistency. We believe investment results will be supported by earnings growth and our behavioral finance-focused investment process and focus on higher quality securities with attractive company fundamentals will be a driver of returns for the coming quarters.

 

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AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund (cont’d)

 

Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class A      –3.29%          1.52%          5.74%          8.48%  

 

  AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class A (adjusted)      –8.61%          0.37%          5.14%          8.07%  
    AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class C      –4.05%          0.75%          4.94%          7.66%  

 

  AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class C (adjusted)      –5.00%          0.75%          4.94%          7.66%  

 

  AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class P      –3.05%          1.77%          6.00%          8.77%  

 

  AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Institutional Class      –2.97%          1.87%          6.13%          8.89%  

 

  AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund Class R6      –2.96%          1.92%          6.18%          8.95%  

 

  MSCI Emerging Markets Index      1.21%          2.49%          5.81%          8.64%  
    Lipper Emerging Markets Funds Average      1.28%          1.78%          5.91%          8.24%  

† The Fund began operations on 5/27/04. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date. Lipper comparisons began on 5/31/04.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.61% for Class A shares, 2.36% for Class C shares, 1.36% for Class P shares, 1.26% for Institutional Class and 1.21% for Class R6 shares. These ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of these reductions and waivers are 1.26% for Class A shares, 2.01% for Class C shares, 1.01% for Class P shares, 0.91% for Institutional Class shares and 0.86% for Class R6 shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 5/27/04. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Country Allocation (as of June 30, 2019)

 

China     34.1%  
India     10.8%  
Korea (Republic of)     9.5%  
Russian Federation     8.5%  
Brazil     7.7%  
Taiwan     7.3%  
South Africa     4.9%  
Hong Kong     4.5%  
Other     10.6%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     2.1%  
 

 

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AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund (cont’d)

 

Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,093.80    $1,089.40    $1,095.20    $1,095.40    $1,095.50
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.54    $10.41    $5.25    $4.73    $4.47
                          
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,018.55    $1,014.83    $1,019.79    $1,020.28    $1,020.53
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.31    $10.04    $5.06    $4.56    $4.31

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waivers) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.26% for Class A, 2.01% for Class C, 1.01% for Class P, 0.91% for Institutional Class and 0.86% for Class R6), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365. These expenses do not include the expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests, which are indirectly borne by Fund shareholders.

 

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AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Karen Hiatt, CFA, Lead Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund (the “Fund”) returned 6.79%, underperforming the Russell 1000 Growth Index (the “benchmark”) which returned 11.56%.

Market Overview

Despite the abrupt sell-off in the final quarter of 2018, sparked by a convergence of multiple headwinds, US equities delivered solid gains over the full period. US equities posted robust gains over the first half of 2019, offsetting the sharp declines from late 2018. Corporate earnings remained supportive and a more dovish tone from the US Federal Reserve (Fed) boosted sentiment. While US equities suffered a sharp set-back in May as the US and China trade talks broke down, stocks rebounded in June amid growing speculation that the Fed may be more inclined to cut rates to protect the US economy.

Portfolio Review

The Fund’s underperformance relative to its benchmark is mostly attributed to challenging market conditions that affected performance in the fourth quarter of 2018.

For the twelve-month period, the Fund’s relative performance was helped by an overweight position in software-as-a-service provider, ServiceNow. The company has delivered consistently strong growth as customers are adopting an increasing number of software products across its platform. Additionally, payments companies such as Paypal and Visa continue to benefit from the ongoing global shift to digital and mobile payments. Within healthcare, Insulet performed well as demand for its diabetes pumps remains robust within a large and growing market. Lastly, our underweight to Alphabet (Google) helped relative returns. The company has been facing more regulatory scrutiny in Europe and the US, as well as slower growth in its core business.

Conversely, relative performance was negatively impacted by our exposure to some health care stocks as the sector was hurt by reform proposals from Presidential candidates. In addition, CVS sharply reduced guidance due to an underperforming previous acquisition, while the FDA delayed approval for a pain drug made by Heron Therapeutics. Overweight positions in NVIDIA and Applied Materials underperformed as the semiconductor group struggled amid the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China. Finally, our position in SVB Financial Group underperformed, mostly due to fears of negative fallout from the fourth quarter sell-off as well as concerns that lower deposits will diminish earnings.

From a sector allocation perspective, an overweight in technology and a slight underweight in the industrials sector helped relative performance. Conversely, overweight positions in the health care and energy sectors hurt relative performance.

Outlook

We are generally optimistic on US equities for the second half of 2019. Despite a lull in May, general US employment data remains strong. While some macroeconomic data has deteriorated partly due to trade uncertainty, the Fed has become more dovish in recent months and is now inclined to cut interest rates. Although US corporate profit growth will likely be down relative to 2018, we expect to see positive profits for the year. Despite the macro and political uncertainties, we believe high quality growth companies remain well-positioned to deliver attractive returns.

We believe that the market will ultimately reward companies that deliver consistent growth and increase shareholder value over time. Our focus continues to be on applying rigorous fundamental research to identify companies with strong or under-appreciated growth prospects and attractive risk-reward characteristics.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class A      6.79%          11.88%          14.95%          11.30%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class A (adjusted)      0.92%          10.62%          14.30%          11.12%  
    AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class C      5.93%          11.03%          14.08%          10.46%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class C (adjusted)      5.06%          11.03%          14.08%          10.46%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class R      6.47%          11.59%          14.66%          10.95%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class P      7.01%          12.15%          15.24%          11.60%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Institutional Class      7.15%          12.27%          15.35%          11.71%  

 

  AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Class R6      7.18%          12.31%          15.40%          11.77%  
    AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund Administrative Class      6.86%          11.98%          15.06%          11.43%  

 

  Russell 1000 Growth Index      11.56%          13.39%          16.28%          11.13%  
    Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Average      10.79%          12.36%          15.02%          8.20%  

† The Fund began operations on 2/24/84. Benchmark and Lipper performance comparisons began on 2/29/84.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.11% for Class A shares, 1.86% for Class C shares, 1.36% for Class R shares, 0.86% for Class P shares, 0.76% for Institutional Class, 0.71% for Class R6 shares, and 1.01% for Administrative Class shares. These ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 0.99% for Class A shares, 1.76% for Class C shares, 1.26% for Class R shares, 0.76% for Class P shares, 0.66% for Institutional Class shares, 0.61% for Class R6 shares, and 0.91% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 2/24/84. Benchmark performance comparisons began on 2/29/84.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

IT Services     16.1%  
Software     12.5%  
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail     8.2%  
Interactive Media & Services     7.7%  
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies     6.3%  
Healthcare Providers & Services     4.8%  
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals     4.1%  
Aerospace & Defense     3.7%  
Other     33.2%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     3.4%  
 

 

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AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund (cont’d)

 

Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,217.60    $1,212.40    $1,215.60    $1,218.60    $1,219.50    $1,219.70    $1,217.80
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.50    $9.71    $6.98    $4.24    $3.69    $3.41    $5.06
                                    
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,019.84    $1,016.02    $1,018.50    $1,020.98    $1,021.47    $1,021.72    $1,020.23
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.01    $8.85    $6.36    $3.86    $3.36    $3.11    $4.61

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waivers) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.00% for Class A, 1.77% for Class C, 1.27% for Class R, 0.77% for Class P, 0.67% for Institutional Class, 0.62% for Class R6 and 0.92% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund

For the reporting period of July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, as provided by Paul D. Strand, CFA, Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month reporting period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund (the “Fund”) returned -9.24%, underperforming the 60% MSCI World Energy/ 40% MSCI World Materials Benchmark (the “benchmark”), which returned -6.53%.

Market Overview

Brent crude prices traded in the low $60’s to the mid $70’s a barrel range in the second quarter of 2019 after rebounding sharply from the low $50’s in the fourth quarter of 2018. Some of the factors that contributed to the stabilization included the interplay between OPEC adhering to production quotas versus the continued supply growth from the US shale producers, and the increasingly dovish monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. Despite the rebound in energy prices in the first-half of the year, the Fund’s energy component of the blended benchmark was one of the worst performing MSCI sectors during the reporting period.

Portfolio Review

The Fund’s underperformance was primarily driven by its overweight and positioning in energy-related stocks.

The Fund’s largest contributors to performance came from a wide variety of mostly materials-related sub-industries. Two specialty chemical companies, and two large cap base metal companies positively impacted performance. In general, the performance of these global base metal stocks mirrored the sharp rebound of iron ore prices in the first half of 2019. Also, a US rail company boosted performance as the rail companies rebounded in the first-half of 2019 despite the trade friction with China.

The largest detractors to performance were some energy-related positions. Some investors are fearful of a long-term supply glut of crude given the strong outlook for US production. The detractors included mostly energy exposure in oil and gas exploration and production companies and the position in an oil field data provider.

From time to time, the Fund utilizes a “Buy-Write” options strategy in which call options are written against some equity holdings. For the reporting period, the use of this strategy was very limited and had no material impact on overall performance.

Outlook

As the second-half of calendar 2019 quarter commences, the Fund is currently slightly overweight energy and modestly underweight materials. The Fund remains overweight in energy due to our conviction in a long term, ongoing rebound in energy prices and an improvement from what we believe is the current significant disconnect between energy stock valuations and energy price levels. We also believe that the energy sector offers superior growth prospects compared to other natural resource-related industries. We are hoping that the stabilization in oil prices continues and we would look to implement more exposure in the materials sector upon confirmation of a recovery in China’s economy. Our largest non-energy exposure includes metals and mining, chemicals, alternative energy such as wind and solar, rails, water treatment and building materials. The Fund remains globally diversified.

We continue to favor our diversified, thematic and opportunistic approach to investing in natural resource-related companies, and maintain our belief that over the long term the performance of the equities should outperform the underlying commodities. Risks to the Fund include a relapse in the global economy, disruption to world bond markets and a sustained drop in commodity prices.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Class A        –9.24%          –6.62%          2.16%          4.80%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Class A (adjusted)        –14.23%          –7.67%          1.58%          4.41%  
    AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Class C        –9.90%          –7.31%          1.40%          4.03%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Class C (adjusted)        –10.80%          –7.31%          1.40%          4.03%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Class P        –8.88%          –6.37%          2.42%          5.09%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund Institutional Class        –8.92%          –6.29%          2.52%          5.19%  

 

  60% MSCI World Energy/40% MSCI World Materials Benchmark        –6.53%          –1.95%          4.64%          5.97%  

 

  MSCI World Index        6.33%          6.60%          10.72%          7.03%  
    Lipper Global Natural Resources Funds Average        –9.44%          –5.97%          0.70%          3.70%  

† The Fund began operations on 6/30/04. Benchmark and Lipper comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.45% for Class A shares, 2.20% for Class C shares, 1.20% for Class P shares and 1.10% for Institutional Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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Country Allocation (as of June 30, 2019)

 

United States     62.5%  
United Kingdom     13.5%  
Australia     5.2%  
Canada     5.2%  
France     4.9%  
Germany     2.4%  
Japan     0.9%  
Spain     0.7%  
Other     4.0%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     0.7%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,132.40    $1,129.10    $1,135.20    $1,134.60
Expenses Paid During Period    $7.61    $11.56    $6.30    $5.77
                     
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,017.65    $1,013.93    $1,018.89    $1,019.39
Expenses Paid During Period    $7.20    $10.94    $5.96    $5.46

For each class of the Fund, expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.44% for Class A, 2.19% for Class C, 1.19% for Class P and 1.09% for Institutional Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365. These expenses do not include the expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests, which are indirectly borne by Fund shareholders.

 

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AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Andrew Neville, Lead Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund (the “Fund”) returned -4.64%, underperforming the MSCI World Small-Cap Index (the “benchmark”), which returned -2.73%.

Market Overview

There was a significant level of macro-economic uncertainty as regional economies experienced varying levels of deceleration and the trade issues between China and US varied wildly between optimism and pessimism. As a result, it was a volatile year for global equities as the market had numerous ups and downs and disparity across regions. Small caps as measured by the benchmark underperformed large caps, as measured by the MSCI World Net Index, by 9.06% over the twelve-month period. In addition, the MSCI World Minimum Volatility Index returned 13.89%, outperforming small caps by 16.62% and demonstrating that during the period it was primarily a risk off environment which would be detrimental to small caps.

Portfolio Review

The Fund represents the highest conviction names from four underlying regional small cap strategies: US, Europe, Japan, and Asia ex-Japan. Stock selection is the key driver of relative returns as the regional allocation of the fund is neutral to the benchmark and there are risk controls to ensure sector deviations do not become too large.

Overall, sector and country allocations detracted from relative returns. The worst performing country allocation was Taiwan at -24 basis points, which is not in the benchmark, and had a -23% return in the twelve-month period. The worst performing sector was real estate, which detracted -38 basis points from relative returns. The best performing stock was Kinsale Cap Group, a specialty insurance group based in Richmond, VA, which contributed 61 basis points of outperformance over the benchmark. The worst performing stock was Asos Plc, a British based online clothing retailer, which underperformed the benchmark by 36 basis points.

Outlook

In our view, the expectation globally is for economies to begin to slowdown or even enter a recession. The US has remained rather resilient, but Europe is delivering flat economic growth, Japan is decelerating, and there is a spread of environments in Asia ex-Japan. Central banks outside of the US have begun taking stimulus measures and the US is expected to follow suit in July, with possible a 50 basis points rate cut. The trade uncertainty is hurting some small caps as China is a large end market and factors highly into the global supply chain. Small cap performance globally will be influenced by both the economic conditions and stimulus measures and the resulting balance between the two. The Fund will continue to focus on high quality growth stocks that we believe will deliver outperformance above the benchmark over the long-term.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Class A        –4.64%          4.34%          12.95%          9.73%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Class A (adjusted)        –9.88%          3.16%          12.31%          9.45%  
    AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Class C        –5.37%          3.55%          12.10%          8.92%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Class C (adjusted)        –6.11%          3.55%          12.10%          8.92%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Class P        –4.40%          4.60%          13.23%          10.04%  

 

  AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund Institutional Class        –4.32%          4.69%          13.34%          10.14%  

 

  MSCI World Small-Cap Index        –2.73%          5.72%          12.15%          7.93%  
    Lipper Global Small-/Mid-Cap Funds Average        –0.32%          5.51%          11.54%          8.03%  

† The Fund began operations on 12/31/96. Benchmark and Lipper comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.62% for Class A shares, 2.37% for Class C shares, 1.37% for Class P shares and 1.27% for Institutional Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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Country Allocation (as of June 30, 2019)

 

United States     59.8%  
Japan     9.5%  
United Kingdom     6.1%  
Germany     3.6%  
France     2.4%  
Australia     2.3%  
Switzerland     2.3%  
Denmark     2.0%  
Other     7.2%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     4.8%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,175.90    $1,171.30    $1,177.20    $1,177.60
Expenses Paid During Period    $8.74    $12.76    $7.40    $6.86
                     
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,016.76    $1,013.04    $1,018.00    $1,018.50
Expenses Paid During Period    $8.10    $11.83    $6.85    $6.36

For each class of the Fund, expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.62% for Class A, 2.37% for Class C, 1.37% for Class P and 1.27% for Institutional Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Peter Pirsch, CFA, Lead Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month reporting period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund (the “Fund”) returned 13.14%, outperforming the MSCI World Health Care Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 10.84%.

Market Overview

Stock markets around the world rebounded in June as investors saw progress made on the trade war between the United States and China at the G-20 summit in Japan. In fact, the US equity markets have hit all-time highs in July. Additionally, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has turned increasingly more dovish and the markets now anticipate a series of rate cuts this calendar year and next. The majority of the developed world’s central banks and China are currently implementing very accommodative monetary policies. Despite the robust first-half of 2019, the MSCI healthcare sector has generally lagged the broader markets in the recovery as investors have sought less defensive sectors such as technology and consumer discretionary. The focus of the Trump Administration for healthcare reform continues to be heavily weighted on containing drug pricing and healthcare costs in general, although other non-healthcare-related matters like the US and China trade negotiations and immigration continue to make big headlines as well.

Portfolio Review

The Fund’s outperformance was driven primarily by the positive stock selection in managed care stocks and the device and life science tools positions. Adverse stock selection in biopharma somewhat offset positive performance.

The Fund’s largest contributors to performance included the zero weight throughout the reporting period in Bayer AG and the underweight in Abbvie. Bayer has been negatively impacted by the Roundup litigation related to its purchase of Monsanto. The provider of genetic information to physicians, Invitae, was another large contributor. Investors are enthusiastic about the Company’s progress in genetic screening. Other larger contributors included the maker of invisalign braces, Align Technology, and the managed care company Cigna.

Heron Therapeutics was the largest detractor to performance. The Company suffered a clinical trial setback for its non-opioid acute pain reliever. Another detractor was the drug retailer, CVS, which lowered guidance in the first quarter of 2019. Other detractors to performance included the zero weights in Roche Holdings and Danaher, as well as the position in Bristol Myers, whose stock continues to be pressured from some recent clinical trial disappointments for its cancer franchise.

Outlook

During the twelve-month period, the MSCI healthcare sector has lagged the advances of the broader indices. From a contrarian perspective, we think that underperformance positions the healthcare sector relatively attractively, particularly given the possibility of a pick-up in market volatility and the defensive nature of healthcare. The upcoming presidential election does present headline risk, however, and stock selection will be critical during the election season. In general, given the intense focus on affordability of healthcare in the United States, we remain vigilant for a pick-up in negative healthcare campaign rhetoric, especially as the 2020 presidential campaign swings into the primaries and prospective candidates become more outspoken on policies. Overall, the Fund’s positioning is focused is on what we believe are the significant long-term growth drivers for healthcare which are largely driven by drug and cost-containment innovation. Areas in which the Fund is overweight include small- and mid-cap biopharma, unique medical device technology and managed care.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund Class A      13.14%          9.55%          15.43%          11.63%  

 

  AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund Class A (adjusted)      6.91%          8.32%          14.78%          11.35%  
    AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund Class C      12.34%          8.74%          14.58%          10.80%  

 

  AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund Class C (adjusted)      11.40%          8.74%          14.58%          10.80%  

 

  AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund Institutional Class      13.54%          9.93%          15.84%          12.05%  

 

  MSCI World Health Care Index      10.84%          7.38%          13.10%          8.56%  
    Lipper Health/Biotechnology Funds Average      4.43%          9.52%          16.11%          11.15%  

† The Fund began operations on 12/31/96. Benchmark and Lipper comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.47% for Class A shares, 2.22% for Class C shares and 1.12% for Institutional Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Pharmaceuticals     40.8%  
HealthCare Equipment & Supplies     20.9%  
Biotechnology     15.3%  
HealthCare Providers & Services     14.0%  
Life Sciences Tools & Services     7.1%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     1.9%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
                  Class A    Class C    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)              $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)              $1,132.30    $1,128.30    $1,134.30
Expenses Paid During Period              $7.77    $11.71    $5.93
                          
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
                  Class A    Class C    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)              $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)              $1,017.50    $1,013.79    $1,019.24
Expenses Paid During Period              $7.35    $11.08    $5.61

For each class of the Fund, expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.47% for Class A, 2.22% for Class C and 1.12% for Institutional Class ), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, as provided by Douglas G. Forsyth, CFA, Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund (the “Fund”) returned 5.35%. During the same period, the S&P 500 Index increased 10.42% and the overall U.S. bond market, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, rose 7.87%. The convertible universe returned 7.93%, as measured by the ICE BofA Merrill Lynch All US Convertibles Index; and high yield bonds, as measured by the ICE BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index, returned 7.58%. Lastly, the Russell 1000 Growth Index advanced 11.56%.

Market Overview

Trade war fears and the US Federal Reserve’s (the “Fed”) tightening bias led to increased volatility in the fourth quarter of 2018 and temporarily disrupted the upward trajectory of risk assets over the trailing twelve months. After a weak finish to the year, the equity, convertible bond and high-yield bond markets rebounded sharply in 2019 and ended the reporting period with strong gains. The strength in risk assets was aided by dovish central bank commentary. Other factors influencing sentiment included corporate earnings, economic data and trade developments.

In 2019, central banks around the globe pivoted and announced stimulus measures or suggested future accommodation. After raising rates four times in 2018, the Fed kept rates steady throughout the first half of 2019 and signaled a bias toward rate cuts, if needed. Coordinated easing efforts and dovish outlooks compressed global yields, triggering the US yield curve (3-month/10-year) to invert.

Against this backdrop, most US companies continued to exceed analyst expectations. In 2018, quarterly earnings growth on a year-over-year basis for the S&P 500 Index averaged more than 20%. However, the first-quarter earnings season in 2019 was the first period without the tax reform tailwind. Although high yield financials revealed lower year-over-year comparisons for revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization growth, most issuers reported better-than-expected results. Most convertible bond issuers surpassed first-quarter expectations and reported higher year-over-year comparisons for revenue and earnings growth. Correspondingly, three quarters of the S&P 500 Index’s constituents exceeded first-quarter earnings estimates.

Economic reports indicated that the growth rate of activity moderated and the labor market remained strong over the reporting period. Consumer spending picked up into period-end while business investment was soft and overall inflation was muted.

Trade tensions persisted but eased into the end of the reporting period. The US raised tariffs on Chinese imports and China retaliated with tariffs on US imports. Planned tariffs on Mexico were cancelled, and at the G20 summit, the US and China temporarily agreed to pause tariff hikes and restart bilateral trade negotiations.

Portfolio Review

The Fund provided consistent income—the primary goal of the strategy—and a positive total return over the trailing 12-month period.

In the equity sleeve of the Fund’s portfolio, information technology, consumer discretionary and industrials exposures had the greatest positive impact on performance. Conversely, the energy and materials sectors hindered performance.

In the convertible sleeve of the Fund’s portfolio, sectors that contributed positively to performance were technology, healthcare and financials. On the other hand, energy and transportation exposures pressured performance.

In the high yield sleeve of the Fund’s portfolio, industries that aided performance were healthcare, support-services and technology & electronics. In contrast, exposure to the energy and steel producers/products industries detracted from performance.

Many option positions expired below strike and the Fund’s portfolio was able to retain the set premiums. The Fund’s portfolio took advantage of higher implied volatility episodes throughout the reporting period that presented attractive yield opportunities.

Outlook

In our opinion, synchronized central bank easing and progress on trade could help to support economic and earnings growth in the second half of the year.

Many central banks have either postponed/ended policy normalization plans or launched new stimulus measures. The Fed communicated that they “will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion.” Fed funds futures suggest multiple rate cuts before year-end.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class A        5.35%          5.57%          9.93%          6.85%  

 

  AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class A (adjusted)        –0.44%          4.38%          9.31%          6.36%  
    AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class C        4.60%          4.79%          9.11%          6.05%  

 

  AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class C (adjusted)        3.64%          4.79%          9.11%          6.05%  

 

  AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class R        5.09%          5.30%          9.66%          6.59%  

 

  AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Class P        5.64%          5.84%          10.21%          7.13%  

 

  AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund Institutional Class        5.69%          5.93%          10.31%          7.23%  

 

  Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index        7.87%          2.95%          3.90%          4.18%  

 

  S&P 500 Index        10.42%          10.71%          14.70%          8.44%  
    Lipper Flexible Portfolio Funds Average        2.88%          3.33%          7.69%          4.67%  

† The Fund began operations on 2/28/07. Benchmark and Lipper comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.28% for Class A shares, 2.03% for Class C shares, 1.53% for Class R shares, 1.03% for Class P shares and 0.93% for Institutional Class shares. These ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 1.27% for Class A shares, 2.02% for Class C shares, 1.52% for Class R shares, 1.02% for Class P shares and 0.92% for Institutional Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 2/28/07. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Software     8.3%  
Media     5.0%  
Internet     4.9%  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     4.8%  
Pharmaceuticals     3.8%  
Telecommunications     3.7%  
Semiconductors     3.7%  
Entertainment     3.5%  
Other     57.7%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     4.6%  
 

S&P Ratings* (as of June 30, 2019)

 

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*

As a percentage of fixed-income investments. Bond ratings refer to the underlying holdings of the Fund and are categorized from highest to lowest credit quality using ratings provided by S&P Global Ratings (“S&P”). S&P’s ratings have been selected for several reasons, including the portfolio managers’ usage of S&P ratings methodology among other credit quality information in managing the Fund, access to background information and other materials provided by S&P, as well as the Fund’s consideration of industry practice. The Fund also displays S&P credit ratings information in materials provided in client presentations. See “Important Information” for more detail on the selection of S&P for the Fund’s ratings presentation. Securities not rated by S&P and bonds that do not currently have a rating available are designated in the chart above as “NR” and “NA”, respectively.

 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,130.80    $1,126.70    $1,129.40    $1,132.80    $1,133.00
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.76    $10.70    $8.08    $5.45    $4.92
                          
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,018.45    $1,014.73    $1,017.21    $1,019.69    $1,020.18
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.41    $10.14    $7.65    $5.16    $4.66

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waivers) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.28% for Class A, 2.03% for Class C, 1.53% for Class R, 1.03% for Class P and 0.93% for Institutional Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund

For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Steven Klopukh, CFA, Lead Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund (the “Fund”) returned 13.58%, underperforming the Russell Midcap Growth Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 13.94%.

Market Overview

Broader US equities closed a volatile twelve-month period with positive returns. In the fourth quarter of 2018, risk assets sold off amid the combination of a decelerating economy and hawkish commentary from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”). US equities subsequently rallied, as investor concerns were eased after Fed Chair Jerome Powell highlighted flexible monetary policy going forward. Better-than-expected corporate earnings results also helped the recovery. Against this backdrop, the Russell Midcap Index returned 7.83%, underperforming the Russell 1000 Index’s return of 10.02%. Within the mid cap universe, growth stocks outperformed value stocks by 10.26%.

Portfolio Review

Sector allocation had a negative effect on performance while positive security selection was offsetting. Stock picking in health care was the primary contributor to relative returns, followed by the information technology and materials sectors. This is balanced by weaker security selections in the industrials, energy and financials sectors.

A top contributor to relative returns was The Trade Desk, Inc. (“Trade Desk”), which provides a technology platform that helps manage digital advertising campaigns. Trade Desk is a pure play on a secular shift from traditional (such as print, TV and radio) to programmatic advertising, which allows for targeted ads and optimized marketing expenditures. Shares rallied as management reported strong financial results along with raised guidance. We believe that Trade Desk should continue generating strong growth, as the shift to programmatic advertising continues and as the company expands into international markets.

A top detractor over the period, XPO Logistics, Inc. (“XPO”), is a leading global freight, transportation and logistics company with a focus on e-commerce. The stock was lower during the period as the company posted below consensus earnings and guidance amid weakness within the European markets. Looking forward, we believe that XPO can still drive growth through LTL segment (small freight) margin improvements, continued demand for last mile deliveries and XPO Direct, which is a predictive analytics enhanced shared-space distribution service. However, we continue to monitor the situation closely for near-term headwinds, including softer global macroeconomic conditions and uncertain near-term trajectory of earnings.

As of June 30, 2019, the largest sector overweight was in health care, followed by consumer staples and communication services. Consumer discretionary was the largest underweight position in the Fund, followed by the information technology and financials sectors.

Outlook

Looking forward, we continue to expect moderate growth from the US economy. Leading economic indicators continue to signal benign conditions and employment metrics remains positive. However, key manufacturing and service surveys are signaling slower economic growth. As expected, the Fed held interest rates steady in its June 2019 meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell offered dovish commentary that the central bank would act accordingly to sustain the economic expansion. Overall, we believe that the Fed’s flexible approach to monetary policy should help stabilize investor appetite for risk assets. From a bottom-up perspective, consensus analyst estimates continue to show mild earnings contraction for the first half of 2019. However, earnings are expected to improve in late 2019. Against historical levels, mid cap growth valuations still trade at reasonable levels relative to its growth potential.

As always, we continue to focus on stock selection, seeking to invest in high quality mid cap companies with attractive growth prospects that are attractively valued. The Fund’s portfolio emphasizes free cash flow yield and responsible capital allocation.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class A        13.58%          10.48%          14.08%          12.87%  

 

  AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class A (adjusted)        7.33%          9.23%          13.44%          12.71%  
    AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class C        12.56%          9.67%          13.23%          12.09%  

 

  AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class C (adjusted)        11.64%          9.67%          13.23%          12.09%  

 

  AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class R        12.97%          10.15%          13.77%          12.67%  

 

  AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Class P        13.79%          10.82%          14.37%          13.32%  

 

  AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Institutional Class        13.97%          10.87%          14.46%          13.43%  
    AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund Administrative Class        13.61%          10.61%          14.18%          13.13%  

 

  Russell Midcap Growth Index        13.94%          11.10%          16.02%          12.40%  
    Lipper Mid-Cap Growth Funds Average        11.81%          10.37%          14.73%          9.66%  
    Lipper Multi-Cap Growth Funds Average        10.22%          10.71%          14.74%          —%  

† The Fund began operations on 11/6/79. Benchmark and primary Lipper performance comparisons began on 10/31/79; secondary Lipper performance is available for trailing 10 years.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.13% for Class A shares, 1.88% for Class C shares, 1.38% for Class R shares, 0.88% for Class P shares, 0.78% for Institutional Class shares and 1.03% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 11/6/79. Benchmark performance comparisons began on 10/31/79.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

IT Services     11.6%  
Health Care Equipment & Supplies     10.6%  
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment     7.3%  
Software     7.0%  
Entertainment     5.4%  
Professional Services     4.2%  
Commercial Services & Supplies     3.9%  
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components     3.7%  
Other     45.8%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     0.5%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,317.50    $1,315.00    $1,313.60    $1,318.70    $1,319.80    $1,320.70
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.55    $10.85    $7.97    $5.12    $4.54    $5.98
                               
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,019.14    $1,015.42    $1,017.90    $1,020.38    $1,020.88    $1,019.64
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.71    $9.44    $6.95    $4.46    $3.96    $5.21

For each class of the Fund, expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.14% for Class A, 1.89% for Class C, 1.39% for Class R, 0.89% for Class P, 0.79% for Institutional Class and 1.04% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by the Value Equity, US team.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund (the “Fund”) returned 4.46%, underperforming the Russell 1000 Value Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 8.46%.

Market Overview

US equities ratcheted steadily higher over the third quarter of 2018, with major indices touching a series of fresh peaks bolstered by corporate earnings growth and positive economic data. The gains propelled the market to its longest bull run in history, surpassing the previous record set between 1990 and 2000. However, the bull market ended abruptly in the final quarter of 2018 when US stocks plummeted, recording their weakest fourth-quarter returns since 2008. A sudden rise in bond yields provided the catalyst for the initial downward movement in October 2018, with stocks plunging further in December 2018 amid concerns over the outlook for growth and company profits, with political tensions providing further fuel for the selloff. Equity returns once again shifted over the first half of 2019, with January being the strongest start to a year for US stocks since 1987. Corporate earnings remained supportive, beating albeit lowered forecasts, and a more dovish tone from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) also boosted sentiment. While US equities suffered a sharp set-back in May 2019 as the breakdown in US and China trade talks led to a series of tit-for-tat tariffs and other protectionist measures, stocks rebounded in June 2019 amid growing speculation that the Fed may be more inclined to cut rates to protect the US economy.

Portfolio Review

Relative performance results were due to negative stock selection, though sector allocation also detracted to a lesser degree over the twelve-month period. Selection across the industrials and communications services sectors boosted relative returns. However, these gains were offset by holdings in the information technology and consumer staples sectors, which failed to keep pace with benchmark shares. Within the benchmark, utilities, health care, communications services, information technology and consumer staples lead gains while two of the eleven GICS economic sectors—energy and materials—dipped into negative territory for the trailing one-year period. The Fund’s overweight in energy detracted from relative returns, while an overweight in health care contributed to performance results during the twelve-month period.

Outlook

After a strong start to 2019 with double-digit gains in the first quarter, US equity markets abruptly turned volatile, netting a modestly positive return in the second quarter. Despite some bumps and bruises, US equities have recorded impressive gains, with the S&P 500 up 18.5% in 2019, as of June 30, 2019. As market participants look to the second half of the year, they face a fragmented economic environment with multiple pain points. We believe that market disruptions from intensifying and/or shifting trade talks may become a long-term theme. Also, the US is continuing along what many believe to be a late-cycle path with growth stuck at less than 2% and rising fears of a recession in 2020. Of course, the continued shift in Fed policy toward more accommodative actions could have a material impact, and continued low unemployment and a fundamentally strong US consumer could bode well for sustained economic strength. Finally, political uncertainty related to the upcoming presidential election could create market headwinds.

In the face of these investing challenges and uncertainties, we believe a focus on higher-quality companies that pay a dividend within an attractive price-value framework offers many compelling characteristics, from less volatility with income to the potential to protect against inflation via dividend growth. As active managers committed to researching fundamentals and evaluating a company’s prospects, we believe this approach will become critical in the current environment for clients seeking strong absolute returns and moderated volatility over the long term.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class A      4.46%          4.90%          11.21%          7.70%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class A (adjusted)      –1.29%          3.72%          10.58%          7.38%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class C      3.63%          4.11%          10.37%          6.89%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class C (adjusted)      2.80%          4.11%          10.37%          6.89%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class R      4.14%          4.62%          10.92%          7.43%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class P      4.62%          5.15%          11.48%          8.01%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Institutional Class      4.82%          5.26%          11.60%          8.12%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Class R6      4.82%          5.31%          11.65%          8.17%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund Administrative Class      4.49%          4.99%          11.32%          7.85%  

 

  Russell 1000 Value Index      8.46%          7.46%          13.19%          6.96%  
    Lipper Equity Income Funds Average      7.00%          6.93%          11.97%          6.71%  

† The Fund began operations on 5/8/00. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date. Lipper comparisons began on 4/30/00.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.11% for Class A shares, 1.86% for Class C shares, 1.36% for Class R shares, 0.86% for Class P shares, 0.76% for Institutional Class shares, 0.71% for Class R6 shares and 1.01% for Administrative Class shares. Theses ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 1.04% for Class A shares, 1.79% for Class C shares, 1.29% for Class R shares, 0.79% for Class P shares, 0.69% for Institutional Class shares, 0.64% for Class R6 shares and 0.94% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 5/8/00. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Banks     13.8%  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     11.9%  
Pharmaceuticals     8.6%  
Insurance     7.0%  
Aerospace & Defense     4.8%  
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment     4.8%  
Diversified Telecommunications Services     4.1%  
Industrial Conglomerates     3.1%  
Other     40.3%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     1.6%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,143.20    $1,138.80    $1,140.80    $1,144.30    $1,144.90    $1,144.90    $1,142.70
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.53    $9.49    $6.85    $4.20    $3.67    $3.40    $4.99
                                    
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,019.64    $1,015.92    $1,018.40    $1,020.88    $1,021.37    $1,021.62    $1,020.13
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.21    $8.95    $6.46    $3.96    $3.46    $3.21    $4.71

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waivers) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.04% for Class A, 1.79% for Class C, 1.29% for Class R, 0.79% for Class P, 0.69% for Institutional Class, 0.64% for Class R6 and 0.94% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund

For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by the Value Equity, US team.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund (the “Fund”) returned 1.44%, outperforming the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 1.29%.

Market Overview

International equities fell sharply over the second half of 2018, with many markets entering bear territory in the fourth quarter. In general, markets continued to ratchet higher during the third quarter, but a sudden rise in bond yields at the start of October sent stocks into reverse. The selloff intensified as worries over earnings added to concerns over the impact of higher tariffs and the outlook for global growth. Politics also unsettled investors, with a US government shutdown, continued uncertainty over Brexit, Italy’s controversial budget and political unrest in France all adding to the downward pressure on prices. Equities rallied over the first half of 2019, with many markets delivering double-digit gains. Sentiment was boosted by hopes of improved trade relations between the US and China and monetary policy U-turns from key central banks. Equity markets ratcheted higher until May when global stocks suffered a sharp set-back as the breakdown of US and China trade talks led to a series of tit-for-tat tariffs and other protectionist measures. Central banks rode to the rescue in June, issuing a series of dovish comments which caused stocks to rally once more and countered concerns over heightened geopolitical risks in the Middle East.

Portfolio Review

Relative performance results over the twelve-month period were due to positive stock selection, which was only partially offset by negative country and sector allocations. Selection across the financials and energy sectors boosted relative returns. These gains were only modestly dampened by holdings in the materials and consumer staples sectors, which failed to keep pace with benchmark shares. The Fund’s underweight in health care detracted from relative returns while an overweight in financials contributed to performance during the twelve-month period. By country, selection was positive across China and Japan, while the Fund realized negative selection from holdings based in Hong Kong and the UK. Underweight exposures across Switzerland and Brazil detracted over the reporting period. In contrast, overweight positions in Hong Kong and Russia boosted relative performance.

Outlook

European banking stocks sunk to another multi-decade relative low in terms of their performance versus the broader markets in the second quarter of 2019. The Euro Stoxx Banks Index continues to trade near where it did during the depths of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009, and this index has underperformed the MSCI EAFE by more than 8% per annum for the last five years. Persistently low rates in Europe continue to dog the banking industry’s primary moneymaker: net interest income. With razor thin spreads to work with, banks are plagued with mind-numbingly low returns on assets. This has forced financial institutions to take on excessive amounts of leverage or push the envelope in riskier business endeavors to turn a decent profit. This past quarter, the European Central Bank once again hinted at its intentions to flood the market with more stimulus and open market purchases of assets. The European central banks would like to see renewed inflation and economic growth. However, unless the governments of European countries are willing to make structural reforms, it is unlikely that these economies will see a jumpstart in growth rates.

The Fund has been and continues to be underweight European banking stocks. Given the difficulty these institutions face to generate a fair return on their shareholders’ capital, and the risks they must take in order to earn them, we do not see a strong investment case for these stocks—despite the fact that they trade at historically low valuation multiples. Until these banks see more clarity from an economic and regulatory standpoint, we are comfortable sitting on the sidelines.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class A      1.44%          –3.05%          4.09%          8.16%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class A (adjusted)      –4.14%          –4.14%          3.50%          7.79%  
    AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class C      0.76%          –3.76%          3.32%          7.36%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class C (adjusted)      –0.24%          –3.76%          3.32%          7.36%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class R      1.23%          –3.28%          3.84%          7.91%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class P      1.76%          –2.80%          4.35%          8.45%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Institutional Class      1.84%          –2.71%          4.45%          8.56%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Class R6      1.88%          –2.67%          4.50%          8.61%  
    AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund Administrative Class      1.68%          –2.93%          4.21%          8.29%  

 

  MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index      1.29%          2.16%          6.54%          8.04%  
    Lipper International Large-Cap Core Funds Average      –0.85%          0.68%          5.88%          7.23%  

† The Fund began operations on 1/31/03. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date. Lipper comparisons began on 1/31/03.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.37% for Class A shares, 2.12% for Class C shares, 1.62% for Class R shares, 1.12% for Class P shares, 1.02% for Institutional Class shares, 0.97% for Class R6 shares and 1.27% for Administrative Class shares. Theses ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 1.30% for Class A shares, 2.05% for Class C shares, 1.55% for Class R shares, 1.05% for Class P shares, 0.95% for Institutional Class shares, 0.90% for Class R6 shares and 1.20% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

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The Fund began operations on 1/31/03. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Country Allocation (as of June 30, 2019)

 

United Kingdom     16.5%  
Japan     13.7%  
Canada     12.5%  
China     11.9%  
Hong Kong     6.7%  
France     6.2%  
Germany     4.2%  
Ireland     3.7%  
Other     23.7%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     0.9%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,144.90    $1,141.00    $1,143.70    $1,146.60    $1,147.20    $1,147.30    $1,146.70
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.97    $10.94    $8.29    $5.64    $5.11    $4.84    $6.44
                                    
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,018.30    $1,014.58    $1,017.06    $1,019.54    $1,020.03    $1,020.28    $1,018.79
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.56    $10.29    $7.80    $5.31    $4.81    $4.56    $6.06

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waiver) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.31% for Class A, 2.06% for Class C, 1.56% for Class R, 1.06% for Class P, 0.96% for Institutional Class , 0.91% for Class R6 and 1.21% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by the Value Equity, US team.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund (the “Fund”) returned 4.62%, underperforming the Russell 1000 Value Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 8.46%.

Market Overview

US equities ratcheted steadily higher over the third quarter of 2018, with major indices touching a series of fresh peaks bolstered by corporate earnings growth and positive economic data. The gains propelled the market to its longest bull run in history, surpassing the previous record set between 1990 and 2000. However, the bull market ended abruptly in the final quarter of 2018 when US stocks plummeted, recording their weakest fourth-quarter returns since 2008. A sudden rise in bond yields provided the catalyst for the initial downward movement in October, with stocks plunging further in December amid concerns over the outlook for growth and company profits, with political tensions providing further fuel for the selloff. Equity returns once again shifted over the first half of 2019, with January being the strongest start to a year for US stocks since 1987. Corporate earnings remained supportive, beating albeit lowered forecasts, and a more dovish tone from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) also boosted sentiment. While US equities suffered a sharp set-back in May as the breakdown of US and China trade talks led to a series of tit-for-tat tariffs and other protectionist measures, stocks rebounded in June amid growing speculation that the Fed may be more inclined to cut rates to protect the US economy.

Portfolio Review

Relative performance results were due to negative stock selection, though sector allocation also detracted to a lesser degree over the reporting period. Selection across the industrials and financials sectors boosted relative returns. However, these gains were offset by holdings in the energy and information technology sectors, which failed to keep pace with benchmark shares. Within the benchmark, utilities, health care, communications services, information technology and consumer staples lead gains while two of the eleven GICS economic sectors—energy and materials—dipped into negative territory for the trailing one-year period. The Fund’s overweight in energy detracted from relative returns, while an overweight in health care contributed to performance results during the twelve-month period.

Outlook

After a strong start to 2019 with double-digit gains in the first quarter, US equity markets abruptly turned volatile, netting a modestly positive return in the second quarter. Despite some bumps and bruises, US equities have recorded impressive gains, with the S&P 500 up 18.5% year-to-date. As market participants look to the second half of the year, they face a fragmented economic environment with multiple pain points. We believe that market disruptions from intensifying and/or shifting trade talks may become a long-term theme. Also, the US is continuing along what many believe to be a late-cycle path with growth stuck at less than 2% and rising fears of a recession in 2020. Of course, the continued shift in Fed policy toward more accommodative actions could have a material impact, and continued low unemployment and a fundamentally strong US consumer could bode well for sustained economic strength. Finally, political uncertainty related to the upcoming presidential election could create market headwinds.

In the face of these investing challenges and uncertainties, we believe a focus on higher-quality companies that pay a dividend within an attractive price-value framework offers many compelling characteristics, from less volatility with income to the potential to protect against inflation via dividend growth. As active managers committed to researching fundamentals and evaluating a company’s prospects, we believe this approach will become critical in the current environment for clients seeking strong absolute returns and moderated volatility over the long term.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class A      4.62%          6.71%          11.97%          7.40%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class A (adjusted)      –1.13%          5.51%          11.34%          7.08%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class C      3.78%          5.91%          11.13%          6.60%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class C (adjusted)      2.78%          5.91%          11.13%          6.60%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class R      4.33%          6.45%          11.70%          7.16%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Class P      4.87%          6.98%          12.25%          7.73%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Institutional Class      4.98%          7.09%          12.38%          7.83%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund Administrative Class      4.69%          6.83%          12.08%          7.56%  

 

  Russell 1000 Value Index      8.46%          7.46%          13.19%          6.96%  
    Lipper Large-Cap Value Funds Average      6.60%          6.90%          12.11%          6.50%  

† The Fund began operations on 5/8/00. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date. Lipper comparisons began on 4/30/00.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.11% for Class A shares, 1.86% for Class C shares, 1.36% for Class R shares, 0.86% for Class P shares, 0.76% for Institutional Class shares and 1.01% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

LOGO

The Fund began operations on 5/8/00. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Banks     13.8%  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     11.1%  
Pharmaceuticals     8.1%  
Insurance     5.2%  
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment     4.4%  
Aerospace & Defense     3.6%  
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies     3.1%  
Chemicals     3.0%  
Other     47.4%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     0.3%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,136.00    $1,131.60    $1,134.40    $1,136.90    $1,137.80    $1,136.30
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.93    $9.88    $7.25    $4.61    $4.08    $5.40
                               
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,019.24    $1,015.52    $1,018.00    $1,020.48    $1,020.98    $1,019.74
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.61    $9.35    $6.85    $4.36    $3.86    $5.11

For each class of the Fund, expenses are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.12% for Class A, 1.87 % for Class C, 1.37% for Class R, 0.87% for Class P, 0.77 % for Institutional Class and 1.02% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund

For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by the Value Equity, US team.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund (the “Fund”) returned 3.46%, underperforming the Russell Midcap Value Index (the “benchmark”), which returned 3.68%.

Market Overview

US equities ratcheted steadily higher over the third quarter of 2018, with major indices touching a series of fresh peaks bolstered by corporate earnings growth and positive economic data. The gains propelled the market to its longest bull run in history, surpassing the previous record set between 1990 and 2000. However, the bull market ended abruptly in the final quarter of 2018 when US stocks plummeted, recording their weakest fourth-quarter returns since 2008. A sudden rise in bond yields provided the catalyst for the initial downward movement in October, with stocks plunging further in December amid concerns over the outlook for growth and company profits, with political tensions providing further fuel for the selloff. Equity returns once again shifted over the first half of 2019, with January being the strongest start to a year for US stocks since 1987. Corporate earnings remained supportive, beating albeit lowered forecasts, and a more dovish tone from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) also boosted sentiment. While US equities suffered a sharp set-back in May as the breakdown of US and China trade talks led to a series of tit-for-tat tariffs and other protectionist measures, stocks rebounded in June amid growing speculation that the Fed may be more inclined to cut rates to protect the US economy.

Portfolio Review

Relative performance results were due to positive stock selection, which was offset by negative sector allocation over the reporting period. Selection across the consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors boosted relative returns. These gains were only somewhat offset by holdings in the financial and information technology sectors that failed to keep pace with benchmark shares. Within the benchmark, utilities, information technology and industrials lead gains while energy posted a double-digit decline, followed by negative absolute returns for the consumer discretionary, materials and consumer staples sectors. The Fund’s underweight in utilities detracted from relative returns, while an overweight in industrials contributed to performance results during the twelve-month period.

Outlook

After a strong start to 2019 with double-digit gains in the first quarter, US equity markets abruptly turned volatile, netting a modestly positive return in the second quarter. Despite some bumps and bruises, US equities have recorded impressive gains, with the S&P 500 up 18.5% year-to-date. As market participants look to the second half of the year, they face a fragmented economic environment with multiple pain points. We believe that market disruptions from intensifying and/or shifting trade talks may become a long-term theme. Also, the US is continuing along what many believe to be a late-cycle path with growth stuck at less than 2% and rising fears of a recession in 2020. Of course, the continued shift in Fed policy toward more accommodative actions could have a material impact, and continued low unemployment and a fundamentally strong US consumer could bode well for sustained economic strength. Finally, political uncertainty related to the upcoming presidential election could create market headwinds.

In the face of these investing challenges and uncertainties, we believe a focus on higher-quality companies that pay a dividend within an attractive price-value framework offers many compelling characteristics, from less volatility with income to the potential to protect against inflation via dividend growth. As active managers committed to researching fundamentals and evaluating a company’s prospects, we believe this approach will become critical in the current environment for clients seeking strong absolute returns and moderated volatility over the long term.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class A        3.46%          7.46%          13.29%          11.04%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class A (adjusted)        –2.23%          6.25%          12.65%          10.83%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class C        2.69%          6.66%          12.45%          10.20%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class C (adjusted)        1.69%          6.66%          12.45%          10.20%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class R        3.21%          7.20%          13.02%          10.70%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class P        3.75%          7.74%          13.59%          11.33%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Institutional Class        3.83%          7.84%          13.69%          11.43%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Class R6        3.89%          7.90%          13.75%          11.49%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund Administrative Class        3.56%          7.57%          13.41%          11.18%  

 

  Russell Midcap Value Index        3.68%          6.72%          14.56%          11.57%  
    Lipper Multi-Cap Value Funds Average        3.20%          6.03%          11.98%          6.93%  

† The Fund began operations on 4/18/88. Benchmark and Lipper performance comparisons began on 4/30/88.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.21% for Class A shares, 1.96% for Class C shares, 1.46% for Class R shares, 0.96% for Class P shares, 0.86% for Institutional Class shares, 0.81% for Class R6 shares and 1.11% for Administrative Class shares. These ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agree through at least September 30, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 0.99% for Class A shares, 1.74% for Class C shares, 1.24% for Class R shares, 0.74% for Class P shares, 0.64% for Institutional Class shares, 0.59% for Class R6 shares and 0.89% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

LOGO

The Fund began operations on 4/18/88. Benchmark performance comparisons began on 4/30/88.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Banks     8.5%  
Insurance     7.4%  
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)     7.3%  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     6.4%  
Aerospace & Defense     4.5%  
Food Products     4.4%  
IT Services     4.2%  
Capital Markets     4.1%  
Other     52.6%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     0.6%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,186.00    $1,181.80    $1,184.80    $1,187.70    $1,188.20    $1,188.30    $1,186.40
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.37    $9.41    $6.72    $4.01    $3.47    $3.20    $4.82
                                    
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,019.89    $1,016.17    $1,018.65    $1,021.12    $1,021.62    $1,021.87    $1,020.38
Expenses Paid During Period    $4.96    $8.70    $6.21    $3.71    $3.21    $2.96    $4.46

For each class of the Fund, expenses ( net of fee waiver) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (0.99% for Class A, 1.74% for Class C, 1.24% for Class R, 0.74% for Class P, 0.64% for Institutional Class, 0.59% for Class R6 and 0.89% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund

For the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by the Value Equity, US team.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund (the “Fund”) returned -7.70%, underperforming the Russell 2000 Value Index (the “benchmark index”), which returned -6.24%.

Market Overview

US equities ratcheted steadily higher over the third quarter of 2018, with major indices touching a series of fresh peaks bolstered by corporate earnings growth and positive economic data. The gains propelled the market to its longest bull run in history, surpassing the previous record set between 1990 and 2000. However, the bull market ended abruptly in the final quarter of 2018 when US stocks plummeted, recording their weakest fourth-quarter returns since 2008. A sudden rise in bond yields provided the catalyst for the initial downward movement in October, with stocks plunging further in December amid concerns over the outlook for growth and company profits, with political tensions providing further fuel for the selloff. Equity returns once again shifted over the first half of 2019, with January being the strongest start to a year for US stocks since 1987. Corporate earnings remained supportive, beating albeit lowered forecasts, and a more dovish tone from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) also boosted sentiment. While US equities suffered a sharp set-back in May as the breakdown of US and China trade talks led to a series of tit-for-tat tariffs and other protectionist measures, stocks rebounded in June amid growing speculation that the Fed may be more inclined to cut rates to protect the US economy.

Portfolio Review

Relative performance results were due to positive stock selection, which was offset by negative sector allocation over the reporting period. Selection across the health care and energy sectors boosted relative returns. These gains were only somewhat offset by holdings in the financial and information technology sectors that failed to keep pace with benchmark shares. Within the benchmark, utilities, communications services and information technology lead gains, followed by real estate and industrials names, which held up a relative basis. In contrast, the benchmark’s energy, health care, consumer staples, materials and consumer discretionary sector posted double-digit declines. The Fund’s underweight in utilities detracted from relative returns, while an overweight in industrials contributed to performance results during the twelve-month period.

Outlook

After a strong start to 2019 with double-digit gains in the first quarter, US equity markets abruptly turned volatile, netting a modestly positive return in the second quarter. Despite some bumps and bruises, US equities have recorded impressive gains, with the S&P 500 up 18.5% year-to-date. As market participants look to the second half of the year, they face a fragmented economic environment with multiple pain points. We believe that market disruptions from intensifying and/or shifting trade talks may become a long-term theme. Also, the US is continuing along what many believe to be a late-cycle path with growth stuck at less than 2% and rising fears of a recession in 2020. Of course, the continued shift in Fed policy toward more accommodative actions could have a material impact, and continued low unemployment and a fundamentally strong US consumer could bode well for sustained economic strength. Finally, political uncertainty related to the upcoming presidential election could create market headwinds.

In the face of these investing challenges and uncertainties, we believe a focus on higher-quality companies that pay a dividend within an attractive price-value framework offers many compelling characteristics, from less volatility with income to the potential to protect against inflation via dividend growth. As active managers committed to researching fundamentals and evaluating a company’s prospects, we believe this approach will become critical in the current environment for clients seeking strong absolute returns and moderated volatility over the long term.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class A        –7.70%          1.79%          10.19%          10.46%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class A (adjusted)        –12.78%          0.64%          9.57%          10.23%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class C        –8.35%          1.04%          9.38%          9.64%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class C (adjusted)        –9.02%          1.04%          9.38%          9.64%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class R        –7.97%          1.52%          9.92%          10.14%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class P        –7.49%          2.03%          10.47%          10.78%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Institutional Class        –7.42%          2.16%          10.61%          10.90%  

 

  AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Class R6        –7.37%          2.21%          10.67%          10.96%  
    AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund Administrative Class        –7.64%          1.92%          10.35%          10.58%  

 

  Russell 2000 Value Index        –6.24%          5.39%          12.40%          10.72%  
    Lipper Small-Cap Core Funds Average        –3.34%          5.67%          12.62%          8.48%  

† The Fund began operations on 10/1/91. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date. Lipper comparisons began on 9/30/91.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.26% for Class A shares, 2.01% for Class C shares, 1.51% for Class R shares, 1.01% for Class P shares, 0.91% for Institutional Class shares, 0.86% for Class R6 shares and 1.16% for Administrative Class Shares. These ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 1.16% for Class A shares, 1.91% for Class C shares, 1.41% for Class R shares, 0.91% for Class P shares, 0.81% for Institutional Class shares, 0.76% for Class R6 shares and 1.06% for Administrative Class Shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

LOGO

The Fund began operations on 10/1/91. Benchmark comparisons began on the fund inception date.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Banks     21.6%  
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)     8.6%  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     6.3%  
Electronic Equipment, Instuments & Components     5.7%  
Insurance     4.6%  
Commercial Services & Supplies     4.1%  
Machinery     3.3%  
IT Services     3.0%  
Other     43.5%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     –0.7%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,145.90    $1,141.70    $1,144.40    $1,147.60    $1,147.60    $1,147.80    $1,146.50
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.23    $10.20    $7.55    $4.90    $4.37    $4.10    $5.69
                                    
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class R    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6    Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,018.99    $1,015.27    $1,017.75    $1,020.23    $1,020.73    $1,020.98    $1,019.49
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.86    $9.59    $7.10    $4.61    $4.11    $3.86    $5.36

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waiver) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.17% for Class A, 1.92% for Class C, 1.42% for Class R, 0.92% for Class P, 0.82% for Institutional Class , 0.77% for Class R6 and 1.07% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365.

 

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AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, as provided by Kunal Ghosh, Lead Portfolio Manager.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) of the AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund (the “Fund”) returned -0.62%, outperforming the Russell 2000 Index (the “benchmark”), which returned -3.31%.

Market Overview

For the last twelve-months, US equities underwent a relatively volatile period. In the fourth quarter of 2018, risk assets sold off meaningfully, amid the combination of a decelerating economy and hawkish commentary from the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”). Equity markets subsequently rallied in 2019, as investor concerns were eased after Fed Chair Jerome Powell highlighted flexible monetary policy going forward. Better-than-expected corporate earnings results also helped the recovery. The benchmark, which is representative of US small caps, underperformed the Russell 1000 large cap index by 13.33%. Within the small cap universe, growth outperformed value by 5.75%.

Portfolio Review

The Fund seeks to provide an “all-weather” performance by combining three unique small-cap strategies in a single investment strategy. The fundamental growth sleeve is tasked to provide up market exposure, the quantitative core sleeve is designed to perform well over a variety of market cycles and the managed volatility sleeve seeks to protect capital in down market periods.

Security selection was the primary driver of outperformance, and sector allocation modestly detracted from returns. Stock picking was positive in the health care, energy and financials sectors, while weak selections in the industrials, information technology and consumer discretionary sectors were partly offsetting. Separately, the underweight to information technology was a drag on performance while an underweight to materials was a slight positive.

A top contributor, Masimo Corp., is a medical technology company that specializes in devices and systems that monitor patient vital signs. The stock rallied as the company delivered strong financial results, which were helped by better-than-expected volumes. The largest absolute detractor was cashless payment technology provider USA Technologies Inc. Share prices were challenged after the company delayed a regulatory filing.

At the end of the period, the Fund was positioned with overweight allocations to the health care, utilities and consumer staples sectors. Industrials was the largest underweight position in the Fund, followed by the real estate and materials sectors.

Outlook

Looking forward, we continue to expect moderate growth from the US economy. Leading economic indicators continue to signal benign conditions and employment metrics remain positive. While key manufacturing and service surveys flash expansionary numbers, the numbers have fallen and signal slowing economic growth. As expected, the Fed held interest rates steady in its June 2019 meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell offered dovish commentary that the central bank will act accordingly to sustain the economic expansion. Overall, the Fed’s flexible approach to monetary policy should help stabilize investor appetite for risk assets.

From a bottom-up perspective, consensus analyst estimates continue to show mild earnings contraction for the first half of 2019. However, earnings are expected to improve into the second half of the year. Specific to small cap equities, earnings growth is expected to accelerate into double digits by the end of the year. With the benchmark’s price-to-earnings multiple below historical averages, small-cap equities appear to be trading at reasonable valuations relative to their growth potential.

The Fund combines three unique small-cap strategies in one investment, including a quantitative core, a fundamental growth and a managed volatility sleeve. Each individual small-cap sleeve is managed independently as a standalone portfolio by its respective portfolio management team, providing investors with access to a wide range of small-cap strategies in a single investment. We believe the Fund provides diversification benefits and may help reduce overall portfolio volatility through the combination of three separately managed small-cap portfolios.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

             1 Year        5 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class A        –0.62%          7.84%          10.26%  

 

  AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class A (adjusted)        –6.09%          6.63%          9.23%  
    AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class C        –1.39%          7.03%          9.44%  

 

  AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class C (adjusted)        –2.28%          7.03%          9.44%  

 

  AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class P        –0.36%          8.12%          10.54%  

 

  AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Institutional Class        –0.29%          8.22%          10.64%  

 

  AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund Class R6        –0.24%          8.27%          10.70%  

 

  Russell 2000 Index        –3.31%          7.06%          9.44%  
    Lipper Small-Cap Core Funds Average        –3.34%          5.67%          8.49%  

† The Fund began operations on 7/1/13. Benchmark performance comparison began on 7/1/13. Lipper performance comparisons began on 6/30/13.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s expense ratios are 1.28% for Class A shares, 2.03% for Class C shares, 1.03% for Class P shares, 0.93% for Institutional Class shares and 0.88% for Class R6 shares. Theses ratios do not include an expense reduction, contractually agreed through at least October 31, 2019. The Fund’s expense ratios net of this reduction are 1.18% for Class A shares, 1.93% for Class C shares, 0.93% for Class P shares, 0.83% for Institutional Class shares and 0.78% for Class R6 shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

LOGO

The Fund began operations on 7/1/13. Benchmark performance comparisons began on 7/1/13.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Software     6.8%  
Biotechnology     5.7%  
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies     5.7%  
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance     5.0%  
Life Sciences Tools & Services     4.0%  
HealthCare Providers & Services     3.9%  
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS)     3.9%  
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components     3.6%  
Other     59.7%  
Cash & Equivalents — Net     1.7%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,177.50    $1,172.80    $1,179.20    $1,179.10    $1,179.70
Expenses Paid During Period    $6.32    $10.34    $4.97    $4.43    $4.16
                          
     Hypothetical Performance     
     (5% return before expenses)      
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Class R6
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,018.99    $1,015.27    $1,020.23    $1,020.73    $1,020.98
Expenses Paid During Period    $5.86    $9.59    $4.61    $4.11    $3.86

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waiver) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.17% for Class A,1.92% for Class C, 0.92% for Class P, 0.82% for Institutional Class and 0.77% for Class R6), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 /365. These expenses do not include the expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests, which are indirectly borne by Fund shareholders.

 

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AllianzGI Technology Fund

For the period of July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, as provided by Huachen Chen, CFA and Walter C. Price, Jr., CFA, Senior Portfolio Managers.

 

Fund Insights

For the twelve-month period ended June 30, 2019, the Class A Shares at net asset value (“NAV”), of the AllianzGI Technology Fund (the “Fund”) returned 12.40%, underperforming the S&P North American Technology Sector Index (the “benchmark”) which returned 12.73%.

Market Overview

Despite the abrupt sell-off in the final quarter of 2018, sparked by a convergence of multiple headwinds, equities delivered solid gains over the full period. Technology stocks performed particularly well, outperforming the broader market indexes over the period. While global semiconductor and hardware stocks delivered gains in the period, both segments lagged the technology sector due to the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China. Supply chains and end markets are highly connected between the two countries, making the impact more acute for these groups. Software and services stocks held up better given lower exposures to China trade uncertainties and earnings reports that largely supported the view of stable and healthy growth.

Portfolio Review

The Fund has benefited from strong performance among several mid-sized, high-growth software companies including Paycom Software, Okta, and MongoDB. In our opinion, each of these companies continue to see increasing demand for innovative software services as more companies adopt cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service solutions. Additionally, underweight positions in mega cap companies such as Alphabet and Intel helped relative performance.

Conversely, the Fund’s overweight positions in Netapp, Nutanix, and DXC Technologies detracted from relative performance. NetApp and DXC experienced headwinds with sales execution, and Nutanix is working through a business model transition. Other top detractors included underweight positions in Microsoft and Qualcomm. While Microsoft has been among the Fund’s largest holdings, it was underweight relative to the benchmark’s 8.4% position at the end of the period.

The core of our investment process is the identification of major themes impacting the technology sector and investing in the primary beneficiaries/drivers of these trends. We maintain our conviction in the core secular growth names in our portfolio, but we are also attentive to present market conditions and valuations.

Outlook

In our view, the technology sector continues to benefit from strong tailwinds which, we believe, should continue to drive attractive long term appreciation. The digital transformation is the top priority for many companies across the economy, as these technologies are increasingly becoming critical drivers of growth, productivity, and competitive positioning. This transition is a multi-year process, and we believe we are still in the fairly early stages. For the semiconductors and hardware segments, we believe the environment will remain mixed as companies work through production and inventory adjustments amid the trade conflict between the US and China. From a fundamental perspective, these companies are much stronger after years of consolidation, and we expect growth to reaccelerate in 2020. We maintain exposure to companies that we believe will benefit from secular growth themes. Despite periods of volatility driven by geopolitical uncertainty, we expect the broad technology sector to see attractive growth in the future.

We continue to believe the technology sector can provide some of the best absolute and relative return opportunities in the equity markets—especially for bottom-up stock pickers. In our opinion, the growth in technology is coming from the creation of new markets, rather than simply GDP growth. We believe investors need to find companies generating organic growth by creating new markets or effecting significant change on old markets. Industries such as automobiles, advertising, security, retail, and manufacturing are all being shaped and transformed by advances in technology.

We are seeing an ongoing wave of innovation in the sector that we believe has the potential to produce attractive returns for companies with “best-in-class” solutions.

 

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Average Annual Total Return for the period ended June 30, 2019

 

           1 Year        5 Year        10 Year        Since Inception†  
    AllianzGI Technology Fund Class A      12.40%          17.38%          18.80%          14.23%  

 

  AllianzGI Technology Fund Class A (adjusted)      6.22%          16.06%          18.13%          13.96%  
    AllianzGI Technology Fund Class C      11.57%          16.51%          17.92%          13.38%  

 

  AllianzGI Technology Fund Class C (adjusted)      10.75%          16.51%          17.92%          13.38%  

 

  AllianzGI Technology Fund Class P      12.68%          17.68%          19.09%          14.60%  

 

  AllianzGI Technology Fund Institutional Class      12.81%          17.80%          19.22%          14.72%  
    AllianzGI Technology Fund Administrative Class      12.52%          17.50%          18.92%          14.43%  

 

  S&P North American Technology Sector Index      12.73%          19.14%          19.12%          11.21%  

 

  NASDAQ Composite Index      7.78%          13.97%          17.19%          9.75%  
    Lipper Global Science & Technology Funds Average      6.35%          16.18%          17.55%          10.22%  

† The Fund began operations on 12/27/95. Benchmark and Lipper performance comparisons began on 12/31/95.

Performance quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be lower or higher than performance shown. For performance current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at us.allianzgi.com. Investment return and the principal value will fluctuate. Shares may be worth more or less than original cost when redeemed. The adjusted returns take into account the maximum sales charge of 5.50% on Class A shares and 1% contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) on Class C shares, which may apply to shares redeemed during the first year of ownership. Returns do not reflect deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or redemption of fund shares. Please see pages 60-62 for more information. The Fund’s gross expense ratios are 1.57% for Class A shares, 2.32% for Class C shares, 1.32% for Class P shares, 1.22% for Institutional Class shares and 1.47% for Administrative Class shares. Expense ratio information is as of the Fund’s current prospectus dated August 28, 2018, as revised August 30, 2018 and as supplemented to date.

Cumulative Returns Through June 30, 2019

 

LOGO

The Fund began operations on 12/27/95. Benchmark and Lipper performance comparisons began on 12/31/95.

Industry/Sectors (as of June 30, 2019)

 

Software     33.4%  
IT Services     22.9%  
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment     10.4%  
Interactive Media & Services     9.4%  
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail     6.4%  
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals     3.2%  
Communications Equipment     2.3%  
Other     3.1%  
Securities Sold Short*     –0.0%  
Cash & Equivalents - Net     8.9%  

 

  *

Table below details the industry allocation for securities sold short

Industry/Sectors - Securities Sold Short

 

IT Services     –0.0%  
 

 

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Shareholder Expense Example    Actual Performance
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,248.70    $1,244.00    $1,250.00    $1,250.80    $1,249.20
Expenses Paid During Period    $8.70    $12.85    $7.31    $6.75    $8.14
                          
     Hypothetical Performance
     (5% return before expenses)
      Class A    Class C    Class P    Institutional
Class
   Administrative
Class
Beginning Account Value (1/1/19)    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00    $1,000.00
Ending Account Value (6/30/19)    $1,017.06    $1,013.34    $1,018.30    $1,018.79    $1,017.55
Expenses Paid During Period    $7.80    $11.53    $6.56    $6.06    $7.30

For each class of the Fund, expenses (net of fee waiver) are equal to the annualized expense ratio for the class (1.56% for Class A, 2.31% for Class C, 1.31% for Class P, 1.21% for Institutional Class and 1.46% for Administrative Class), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365. These expenses do not include the expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests, which are indirectly borne by Fund shareholders.

 

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Important Information

 

Share Class (A/C)

The inception date on each Fund Summary page is the inception date of the Fund’s oldest share class or classes. The oldest share class for the following Funds is the Institutional share class, and the Class A and/or C shares were first offered in the month/year indicated in parentheses after each Fund name: AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value (10/01), AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value (7/02), AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value (1/97), AllianzGI Mid-Cap (2/02), AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities (8/06), AllianzGI Global Natural Resources (3/06), AllianzGI Global Small-Cap (2/02) and AllianzGI Technology (2/02). The oldest share class for the following Funds is C, and the A shares were first offered in the month/year indicated in parentheses after each Fund name: AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value (2/91) and AllianzGI Focused Growth (10/90). The oldest share class for AllianzGI Health Sciences was the D share class, and the A and C shares were first offered in 2/02. For AllianzGI NFJ International Value the oldest share class is the Institutional share class and A and C shares were first offered in 4/05. For AllianzGI Small-Cap, A and C shares were each first offered in 7/13. For the AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund, Class A and Class C shares were first offered simultaneously with Institutional shares in 2/07.

Class A shares are subject to an initial sales charge. Class C shares are subject to a 1% CDSC for shares redeemed in the first year.

Share Class (R)

The inception date on each Fund Summary page is the inception date of the Fund’s oldest share class or classes. The oldest share classes are (Fund/share class): AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value/Institutional and Administrative, AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value/C, AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value/Institutional, AllianzGI Focused Growth/C and AllianzGI Mid-Cap/Institutional. Class R shares for these Funds were first offered in 12/02. The oldest share class for AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value is the Institutional share class and it first offered Class R shares in 11/09. The oldest share class for AllianzGI NFJ International Value is the Institutional share class and the Fund first offered Class R shares in 11/09. The oldest share classes for AllianzGI Income & Growth are the Institutional, Class A and Class C share classes and the Fund first offered Class R shares in 2/11.

Share Class (P)

Class P shares were launched in July 2008, except for Class P shares of AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund, which were launched February 28, 2011, Class P shares of AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund, which were launched April 2, 2012, and Class P shares of AllianzGI Small-Cap, which were launched July 1, 2013.

Share Class (Institutional/Administrative)

The inception date on each Fund Summary page is the inception date of the Fund’s oldest share class or classes. Unless otherwise indicated, the noted Institutional or Administrative share class is one of the Fund’s oldest share classes. The oldest share class for the following Funds is the C shares, and the Institutional and Administrative shares

were first offered in the month/year indicated in parentheses after each Fund name: AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value (4/88) and AllianzGI Focused Growth (3/99). The oldest share class for the AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund was the D share class, and the Institutional share class was first offered in 12/14. The oldest share class for the following Funds is the Institutional class and the Administrative shares were first offered in the month/year indicated in parentheses after each Fund name: AllianzGI NFJ International Value (5/10), AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value (9/06), AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value (11/95), AllianzGI Technology (3/05) and AllianzGI Mid-Cap (2/02).

Share Class (R6)

The inception date on each Fund Summary page is the inception date of the Fund’s oldest share class or classes. The oldest share class for the following funds is the Institutional class and Class R6 shares were first offered in the month/year indicated in parentheses after each Fund name: AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities (12/15), AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value (12/13), AllianzGI NFJ International Value (12/13), AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value (12/13), AllianzGI NFJ Mid Cap Value (12/17) and AllianzGI Small-Cap (8/18). For AllianzGI Focused Growth, Class C is the oldest share class and Class R6 shares were first offered in 12/15.

Returns shown in the “Fund Summaries” section of this report measure performance from the inception of the oldest share class to the present; therefore some returns predate the inception of the noted share class. Those returns are calculated by adjusting the returns of the oldest share class to reflect the fees and expenses paid by the newer class. Total return performance assumes that all dividend and capital gain distributions were reinvested on the payable date.

The Lipper Averages are calculated by Lipper, Inc. (“Lipper”). They are based on the total return performance, with distributions reinvested and operating expenses deducted, of funds included by Lipper in the stated category. Lipper does not take into account sales charges.

The Average Annual Total Return charts for each Fund assume the initial investment was made on the first day of the Fund’s initial fiscal year. The charts reflect any sales load that would have applied at the time of purchase or any CDSC that would have applied if a full redemption occurred on the last business day of the most recent fiscal year. Results assume that all dividend and capital gain distributions were reinvested. They do not take into account the effect of taxes. The benchmark index cumulative return began on the last day of the month of the respective Fund’s inception date, unless otherwise noted.

“Cash & Equivalents — Net” in the Allocation Summaries may be comprised of cash, repurchase agreements, U.S. Treasury Bills, options purchased, options written and other assets net of other liabilities including net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures contracts, forward foreign currency contracts and swap agreements, as applicable.

 

 

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Proxy Voting

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (the “Investment Adviser”) has adopted written proxy voting policies and procedures (the “Proxy Policy”) as required by Rule 206(4)-6 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The Proxy Policy has been adopted by the Trust as the policies and procedures that the Investment Adviser will use when voting proxies on behalf of the Funds. Copies of the written Proxy Policy, the factors that the Investment Adviser may consider in determining how to vote proxies for each Fund and information about how each Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities held during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30, are provided without charge, upon request, by calling the Trust at 1-800-988-8380 (Class A, Class C and Class R) or 1-800-498-5413 (Class P, Class R6, Institutional and Administrative classes), on the Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC website at us.allianzgi.com, and on the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) Website at http://www.sec.gov.

Form N-PORT

The Trust files complete schedules of each Fund’s portfolio holdings with the SEC on Form N-PORT for the first and third quarters of the fiscal year; such filings are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A copy of the Trust’s Form N-PORT, when available, will be provided without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-988-8380 (Class A, Class C and Class R) or 1-800-498-5413 (Class P, Class R6, Institutional and Administrative classes). In addition, the Trust’s Form N-PORT may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. A description of the Trust’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Trust’s Statement of Additional Information. The Investment Adviser will post each Fund’s holdings information on the Fund’s website at us.allianzgi.com. Each Fund’s website will contain a complete schedule of portfolio holdings as of the relevant month end. The information will be posted on the website approximately thirty (30) calendar days after the relevant month’s end. Portfolio holdings information for each Fund will remain accessible on its website until the Trust files its Form N-CSR, or Form N-PORT for the last month of the Fund’s first or third fiscal quarters, with the SEC for the period that includes the date as of which the website information is current. The Trust’s policies with respect to the disclosure of the portfolio holdings are subject to change without notice.

The following disclosure provides important information regarding each Fund’s Shareholder Expense Example, which appears on each Fund Summary page in this Annual Report. Please refer to this information when reviewing the Shareholder Expense Example for a Fund.

Shareholder Expense Example

The Shareholder Expense Example is based on $1,000.00 invested at the beginning of and held for the entire period. Shareholders of the Funds incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs; and (2) ongoing costs, including investment advisory and administration fees; distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees and other Fund expenses. The

Shareholder Expense Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in each Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. The Shareholder Expense Example is based on $1,000.00 invested at the beginning and held for the entire period January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019.

Actual Expenses

The information in the table under the heading “Actual Performance” provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in these columns, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600.00 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the appropriate column for your share class, in the row entitled “Expenses Paid During Period”, to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The information in the table for “Hypothetical Performance (5% return before expenses)” provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges. Therefore, the information under the heading “Hypothetical Performance (5% return before expenses)” is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs may have been higher.

Expense ratios may vary from period to period because of various factors such as increases in expenses not covered by advisory and administration fees (for example, expenses of the trustees and their counsel or litigation expenses) and/or because of reductions in the administration fees resulting from the size of the fund.

Credit Ratings

Bond ratings apply to the underlying holdings of a Fund and not the Fund itself and are divided into categories ranging from highest to lowest credit quality, determined for purposes of presentations in this report by using ratings provided by S&P Global Ratings (“S&P”). Presentations of credit ratings information in this report use ratings provided by S&P for this purpose, among other reasons, because of the access to background information and other materials provided by

 

 

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S&P, as well as the Funds’ considerations of industry practice. Bonds not rated by S&P, or bonds that do not have a rating available from S&P, or bonds that had a rating withdrawn by S&P are designated as “NR” or “NA”, respectively. Credit quality ratings assigned by a rating agency are subjective opinions, not statements of fact, and are subject to change periodically, even as frequently as daily. Ratings assigned by S&P or another rating agency are not absolute standards of credit quality and do not evaluate market risk. Rating agencies may fail to make timely changes in credit ratings, and an issuer’s current financial condition may be better or worse than a rating indicates. In formulating investment decisions for the applicable Funds, the Investment Adviser develops its own analysis of the credit quality and risks associated with individual debt instruments, rather than relying exclusively on rating agencies or third-party research.

All of the information on the Fund Summary pages, including Fund Insights, Average Annual Total Return and Cumulative Returns charts, Shareholder Expense Examples and Allocation/Credit Ratings Summaries are unaudited.

Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019, us.allianzgi.com, 1-800-988-8380 (retail classes: A, C & R) or 1-800-498-5413 (Class P, Class R6, Institutional and Administrative classes).

 

 

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Unless otherwise noted, index returns reflect the reinvestment of income dividends and capital gains, if any, but do not reflect fees, brokerage commissions or other expenses of investing. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Prior to November 1, 2006, performance data for the MSCI Indices was calculated gross of dividend tax withholding. Performance data presently shown for the Indices is net of dividend tax withholding. This recalculation results in lower performance for the Indices.

 

Index    Description
Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index    The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index represents securities that are SEC-registered, taxable, and US dollar denominated. The index covers the US investment grade fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass-through securities, and asset-backed securities.
Bloomberg Barclays US Credit Index    The Bloomberg Barclays US Credit Index is the credit component of the US Government/Credit Index. It includes publicly issued US corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes that meet the specified maturity, liquidity, and quality requirements. To qualify, bonds must be SEC-registered.
Bloomberg Barclays US Government Bond Index    The Bloomberg Barclays US Government Bond Index is the US Government component of the US Government/Credit Index. It includes US Dollar-denominated, fixed-rate, nominal US Treasuries and US agency debentures (securities issued by US government owned or government sponsored entities) and debt explicitly guaranteed by the US government.
Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Index    The Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Index is a multi-currency flagship measure of the global high yield debt market. The index represents the union of the US High Yield, the Pan-European High Yield and Emerging Markets (EM) Hard Currency High Yield Indices.
ICE BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index    The ICE BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Index is an unmanaged index consisting of US dollar denominated bonds that are issued in countries having a BBB3 or higher debt rating with at least one year remaining until maturity. All bonds must have a credit rating below investment grade but not in default.
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX)    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices.
MSCI All Country World ex-USA Index (Also known as MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index)    The MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex-USA Index captures large and mid cap representation across Developed Markets countries (excluding the US) and Emerging Markets countries. The index covers approximately 85% of the global equity opportunity set outside the US.
MSCI EAFE Index    The MSCI EAFE Index is an equity index which captures large and mid cap representation across the Developed Markets countries around the world, excluding the US and Canada.
MSCI Emerging Markets Index    The MSCI Emerging Markets Index captures large and mid cap representation across Emerging Markets countries. The index covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country.
MSCI World Energy Index    The MSCI World Energy Index is designed to capture the large and mid-cap segments across Developed Markets countries. All securities in the index are classified in the Energy sector as per the Global Industry Classification Standard.
MSCI World Health Care Index    The MSCI World Health Care Index is designed to capture the large and mid cap segments across Developed Markets countries. All securities in the index are classified in the Health Care sector as per the Global Industry Classification Standard.
MSCI World Index    The MSCI World Index captures large and mid cap representation across Developed Markets countries. The index covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country.
MSCI World Materials Index    The MSCI World Materials Index is designed to capture the large and mid cap segments across Developed Markets countries. All securities in the index are classified in the Materials sector as per the Global Industry Classification Standard.

 

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Index    Description
MSCI World Small-Cap Index    The MSCI World Small-Cap Index captures small-cap representation across Developed Markets countries. The index covers approximately 14% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country.
NASDAQ Composite Index    The NASDAQ Composite Index is an unmanaged market-value weighted index of all common stocks listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Russell 1000 Growth Index    The Russell 1000 Growth Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the US equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The Russell 1000 Index measures the performance of the 1,000 largest companies in the Russell 3000® Index, which consists of the 3,000 largest US companies based on total market capitalization.
Russell 1000 Index    The Russell 1000 Index is an unmanaged index that consists of the 1,000 largest companies in the Russell 3000 Index and represents approximately 90% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000 Index. It is highly correlated with the S&P 500 Index.
Russell 1000 Value Index    The Russell 1000 Value Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the large-cap value segment of the US equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower expected growth values.
Russell 2000 Index    The Russell 2000 Index measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the US equity universe. The Russell 2000 is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Russell 2000 Value Index    The Russell 2000 Value Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small-cap value segment of the US equity universe. It includes those Russell 2000 Index companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.
Russell Midcap Growth Index    The Russell Midcap Growth Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the mid-cap growth segment of the US equity universe. It includes those Russell Midcap Index companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
Russell Midcap Index    The Russell Midcap Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the mid-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The Russell Midcap Index is a subset of the Russell 1000 Index. It includes approximately 800 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Russell Midcap Value Index    The Russell Midcap Value Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the mid-cap value segment of the US equity universe represented by stocks in the largest 200 by market cap that exhibit value characteristics. It includes Russell Midcap companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.
S&P 500 Index    The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of large capitalization common stocks.
S&P North American Technology Sector Index    The S&P North American Technology Sector Index is a modified capitalization-weighted index of selected technology and internet-related stocks.

 

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AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—92.3%

 

 
Brazil—4.3%    

Banco do Brasil S.A.

    386,000       $5,422,164  

Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo ADR

    340,700       4,146,319  

IRB Brasil Resseguros S.A.

    56,800       1,456,998  

Porto Seguro S.A.

    150,076       2,019,799  

Qualicorp Consultoria e Corretora de Seguros S.A.

    148,400       887,706  

Vale S.A.

    186,500       2,516,812  
   

 

 

 
      16,449,798  
   

 

 

 
China—34.1%    

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ADR (d)

    72,800       12,335,960  

Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd., Class H

    1,169,000       7,314,798  

Bank of Communications Co., Ltd., Class H

    3,434,000       2,607,524  

China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd., Class H

    1,570,500       7,793,475  

China Mobile Ltd.

    1,456,000       13,254,930  

China Telecom Corp., Ltd., Class H

    3,410,000       1,717,098  

CNOOC Ltd.

    2,690,000       4,588,500  

Daqin Railway Co., Ltd., Class A

    1,483,600       1,748,677  

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., Class H

    11,955,000       8,726,209  

Jiangsu Expressway Co., Ltd., Class H

    1,090,000       1,551,292  

Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd., Class A

    30,400       4,366,154  

Lenovo Group Ltd.

    11,200,000       8,671,982  

Qudian, Inc. ADR (d)

    399,700       2,997,750  

RiseSun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., Class A

    3,134,052       4,291,430  

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

    692,100       31,310,180  

Weichai Power Co., Ltd., Class H

    4,429,000       7,491,346  

Xiamen C & D, Inc.

    690,372       893,757  

Yum China Holdings, Inc.

    102,300       4,726,260  

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co., Ltd. Class H

    3,815,600       2,506,213  
   

 

 

 
      128,893,535  
   

 

 

 
Hong Kong—4.5%    

Hang Seng Bank Ltd.

    179,200       4,460,374  

Link REIT

    1,013,500       12,471,530  
   

 

 

 
      16,931,904  
   

 

 

 
India—10.8%    

Bajaj Finance Ltd.

    69,678       3,719,133  

GAIL India Ltd.

    410,208       1,852,814  

HDFC Bank Ltd. ADR

    102,100       13,277,084  

Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

    107,454       2,785,635  

ITC Ltd.

    815,856       3,234,607  

REC Ltd.

    355,430       849,721  

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

    369,505       11,928,000  

Tech Mahindra Ltd.

    316,687       3,246,695  
   

 

 

 
      40,893,689  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Indonesia—2.1%    

Bank Central Asia Tbk PT

    1,977,700     $ 4,196,828  

Bank Rakyat Indonesia Persero Tbk PT

    12,510,900       3,862,428  
   

 

 

 
      8,059,256  
   

 

 

 
Korea (Republic of)—9.5%

 

 

Kia Motors Corp.

    213,508       8,145,078  

LG Electronics, Inc.

    103,133       7,096,185  

Partron Co., Ltd.

    238,699       3,674,574  

POSCO

    22,816       4,843,491  

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    180,591       7,353,723  

Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd.

    126,847       4,933,595  
   

 

 

 
      36,046,646  
   

 

 

 
Mexico—2.9%    

Grupo Financiero Banorte S.A.B de C.V., Class O

    1,873,100       10,879,228  
   

 

 

 
Russian Federation—7.0%

 

 

Alrosa PJSC (b)(c)

    2,474,700       3,377,025  

Lukoil PJSC ADR

    200,807       16,871,804  

MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC ADR

    269,765       6,075,108  
   

 

 

 
      26,323,937  
   

 

 

 
South Africa—4.9%    

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. ADR

    205,400       3,658,174  

Exxaro Resources Ltd.

    143,171       1,753,173  

Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. (d)

    238,406       1,181,444  

Kumba Iron Ore Ltd.

    27,934       990,299  

Nedbank Group Ltd.

    62,062       1,116,378  

Telkom S.A. SOC Ltd.

    1,507,879       9,861,536  
   

 

 

 
      18,561,004  
   

 

 

 
Taiwan—7.3%    

Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd.

    693,000       959,861  

Chlitina Holding Ltd.

    245,000       2,115,961  

CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd.

    1,315,000       904,209  

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

    2,227,000       5,556,174  

Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp.

    1,004,000       3,374,039  

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

    945,000       7,227,716  

Uni-President Enterprises Corp.

    1,232,000       3,281,655  

United Microelectronics Corp.

    2,053,000       925,001  

Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd.

    1,051,000       3,362,385  
   

 

 

 
      27,707,001  
   

 

 

 
Thailand—2.0%    

Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (b)(c)

    6,445,600       5,940,019  

Land & Houses PCL (b)(c)

    4,574,000       1,656,693  
   

 

 

 
      7,596,712  
   

 

 

 
Turkey—1.4%    

KOC Holding AS

    288,762       871,429  

Turkiye Is Bankasi AS

    4,054,911       4,228,789  
   

 

 

 
      5,100,218  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
United Kingdom—0.5%

 

 

Mondi PLC

    76,199     $ 1,734,300  
   

 

 

 
United States—1.0%    

AutoZone, Inc. (d)

    3,600       3,958,092  
   

 

 

 

Total Common Stock

(cost—$319,344,327)

      349,135,320  
   

 

 

 
   
Preferred Stock—4.9%    
Brazil—3.4%    

Banco Bradesco S.A.

    628,020       6,172,339  

Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul S.A., Class B

    270,700       1,674,273  

Cia Paranaense de Energia

    395,800       5,009,409  
   

 

 

 
      12,856,021  
   

 

 

 
Russian Federation—1.5%

 

 

Surgutneftegas PJSC (b)(c)

    8,440,857       5,739,783  
   

 

 

 
Total Preferred Stock (cost—$14,094,570)       18,595,804  
   

 

 

 
   
Exchange-Traded Funds—0.7%

 

 

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index
(cost—$2,869,350)

    66,000       2,832,060  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—1.6%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $5,998,250; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $6,119,208 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$5,998,000)

    $5,998       5,998,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$342,306,247) (a)99.5%

 

    376,561,184  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less liabilities—0.5%       1,798,413  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $378,359,597  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Securities with an aggregate value of $246,932,325, representing 65.3% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(b) Fair-Valued—Securities with an aggregate value of $16,713,520, representing 4.4% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(d) Non-income producing.

 

 

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Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

MSCI—Morgan Stanley Capital International

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

The industry classification of portfolio holdings and other assets less liabilities shown as a percentage of net assets were as follows:

 

Banks

    21.2%  

Interactive Media & Services

    8.3%  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    7.7%  

Metals & Mining

    6.0%  

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

    4.2%  

IT Services

    4.0%  

Wireless Telecommunication Services

    3.5%  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

    3.3%  

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

    3.3%  

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

    3.3%  

Diversified Telecommunication Services

    3.1%  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

    3.0%  

Machinery

    2.6%  

Food Products

    2.4%  

Automobiles

    2.2%  

Construction Materials

    1.9%  

Household Durables

    1.9%  

Consumer Finance

    1.8%  

Real Estate Management & Development

    1.6%  

Electric Utilities

    1.3%  

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

    1.2%  

Insurance

    1.2%  

Beverages

    1.2%  

Water Utilities

    1.1%  

Specialty Retail

    1.0%  

Tobacco

    0.9%  

Exchange-Traded Funds

    0.7%  

Household Products

    0.7%  

Personal Products

    0.6%  

Gas Utilities

    0.5%  

Road & Rail

    0.5%  

Paper & Forest Products

    0.5%  

Transportation Infrastructure

    0.4%  

Trading Companies & Distributors

    0.2%  

Healthcare Providers & Services

    0.2%  

Industrial Conglomerates

    0.2%  

Diversified Financial Services

    0.2%  

Repurchase Agreements

    1.6%  

Other assets less liabilities

    0.5%  
 

 

 

 
    100.0%  
 

 

 

 

AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—96.6%

 

Aerospace & Defense—3.7%

 

Lockheed Martin Corp.

    104,752       $38,081,542  
   

 

 

 
Banks—1.3%    

SVB Financial Group (a)

    60,635       13,618,015  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—1.0%    

Constellation Brands, Inc., Class A

    54,088       10,652,091  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—1.6%    

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

    90,780       16,647,236  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—1.3%

 

MSCI, Inc.

    54,575       13,031,964  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—1.8%

 

Arista Networks, Inc. (a)

    72,340       18,780,911  
   

 

 

 
Construction Materials—2.1%

 

Vulcan Materials Co.

    158,805       21,805,514  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—0.8%    

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., Class A

    117,910       8,514,281  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—6.3%

 

Boston Scientific Corp. (a)

    524,230       22,531,405  

DexCom, Inc. (a)

    70,140       10,509,778  

Insulet Corp. (a)

    146,305       17,465,891  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

    29,585       15,518,812  
   

 

 

 
      66,025,886  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—4.8%

 

Anthem, Inc.

    90,600       25,568,226  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

    99,385       24,250,934  
   

 

 

 
      49,819,160  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—0.6%

 

Roku, Inc. (a)

    64,870       5,875,925  
   

 

 

 
Industrial Conglomerates—1.6%

 

General Electric Co.

    1,574,645       16,533,772  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—1.1%    

Progressive Corp.

    141,875       11,340,069  
   

 

 

 
Interactive Media & Services—7.7%

 

Facebook, Inc., Class A (a)

    265,685       51,277,205  

Tencent Holdings Ltd. ADR

    636,880       28,825,189  
   

 

 

 
      80,102,394  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—8.2%

 

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

    45,087       85,378,096  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—16.1%    

EPAM Systems, Inc. (a)

    60,210       10,422,351  

Mastercard, Inc., Class A

    145,115       38,387,271  

Okta, Inc. (a)

    87,880       10,854,059  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (a)

    333,245       38,143,223  

Square, Inc., Class A (a)

    232,405       16,856,334  

Visa, Inc., Class A

    305,325       52,989,154  
   

 

 

 
      167,652,392  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—2.8%

 

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (a)

    115,140       5,561,262  

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

    318,415       23,776,048  
   

 

 

 
      29,337,310  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Machinery—1.6%    

Fortive Corp.

    207,670     $ 16,929,258  
   

 

 

 
Media—1.5%    

Comcast Corp., Class A

    376,345       15,911,867  
   

 

 

 
Personal Products—1.2%

 

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A

    66,830       12,237,241  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—3.0%

 

Zoetis, Inc.

    278,855       31,647,254  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—3.1%    

Union Pacific Corp.

    189,290       32,010,832  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—3.6%

 

Broadcom, Inc.

    89,725       25,828,239  

ON Semiconductor Corp. (a)

    596,720       12,059,711  
   

 

 

 
      37,887,950  
   

 

 

 
Software—12.5%    

Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. (a)

    41,920       2,862,717  

Microsoft Corp.

    545,455       73,069,152  

Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

    162,275       24,621,985  

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

    106,040       29,115,403  
   

 

 

 
      129,669,257  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—3.2%

 

Burlington Stores, Inc. (a)

    67,545       11,492,782  

Home Depot, Inc.

    59,328       12,338,444  

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

    25,615       9,460,132  
   

 

 

 
      33,291,358  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—4.1%

 

Apple, Inc.

    216,705       42,890,253  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$607,805,842)

 

    1,005,671,828  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—3.8%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $39,630,651; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $40,423,396 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$39,629,000)

    $39,629       39,629,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$647,434,842)—100.4%

 

    1,045,300,828  
   

 

 

 
Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.4)%       (3,917,039
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $1,041,383,789  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

 

 

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AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—95.9%    
Australia—5.2%    

BHP Group Ltd.

    18,805       $546,634  

South32 Ltd.

    40,170       90,046  
   

 

 

 
      636,680  
   

 

 

 
Canada—5.2%    

Enbridge, Inc.

    3,680       132,919  

Nutrien Ltd.

    3,046       162,936  

Suncor Energy, Inc.

    7,438       232,020  

TC Energy Corp.

    2,150       106,585  
   

 

 

 
      634,460  
   

 

 

 
Denmark—0.6%    

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

    905       78,403  
   

 

 

 
France—4.9%    

Air Liquide S.A.

    1,250       174,835  

Total S.A.

    7,472       419,133  
   

 

 

 
      593,968  
   

 

 

 
Germany—2.4%    

BASF SE

    1,915       139,315  

HeidelbergCement AG

    1,855       150,116  
   

 

 

 
      289,431  
   

 

 

 
Japan—0.9%    

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

    1,200       112,274  
   

 

 

 
Spain—0.7%    

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A.

    5,255       87,343  
   

 

 

 
United Kingdom—13.5%    

BP PLC

    58,432       407,082  

Rio Tinto PLC

    7,804       483,013  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A

    13,724       447,918  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class B

    9,760       319,803  
   

 

 

 
      1,657,816  
   

 

 

 
United States—62.5%    

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

    1,570       355,401  

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

    3,530       81,049  

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

    1,535       71,700  

Chevron Corp.

    6,015       748,506  

Concho Resources, Inc. (b)

    1,325       136,713  

ConocoPhillips

    4,895       298,595  

Continental Resources, Inc. (c)

    5,740       241,597  

Devon Energy Corp.

    2,035       58,038  

Diamondback Energy, Inc.

    2,810       306,206  

Ecolab, Inc. (b)

    1,985       391,918  

EOG Resources, Inc.

    3,535       329,321  

Exxon Mobil Corp.

    10,815       828,753  

FMC Corp.

    1,655       137,282  

Hess Corp.

    2,020       128,411  

Kansas City Southern

    880       107,202  

Kinder Morgan, Inc.

    12,875       268,830  

Linde PLC

    1,865       374,492  

LyondellBasell Industries NV, Class A

    1,425       122,735  

Marathon Oil Corp.

    11,200       159,152  

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

    4,340       242,519  

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

    2,395       120,421  

ONEOK, Inc.

    2,910       200,237  

Parsley Energy, Inc., Class A (c)

    7,380       140,294  

Phillips 66

    1,430       133,762  

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

    1,608       247,407  

Schlumberger Ltd.

    7,390       293,679  

Sherwin-Williams Co.

    245       112,281  

Union Pacific Corp.

    725       122,605  

Valero Energy Corp.

    4,320       369,835  

Vulcan Materials Co.

    1,065       146,235  

 

     Shares     Value  

Williams Cos., Inc.

    10,825     $ 303,533  

WPX Energy, Inc. (c)

    5,360       61,694  
   

 

 

 
      7,640,403  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$11,053,492)

 

    11,730,778  
   

 

 

 
   
Exchange-Traded Funds—3.4%

 

Invesco Solar

    4,865       137,534  

VanEck Vectors Gold Miners

    10,545       269,530  
   

 

 

 
Total Exchange-Traded Funds
(cost—$325,938)

 

    407,064  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$11,379,430) (a)—99.3%

 

    12,137,842  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less liabilities—0.7%       91,356  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%

 

    $12,229,198  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Securities with an aggregate value of $3,455,915, representing 28.3% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(b) All or partial amount segregated for the benefit of the counterparty as collateral for options written. There were no open options written outstanding at June 30, 2019, however the Fund had securities segregated as collateral for any transactions in the future.

(c) Non-income producing.

The industry classification of portfolio holdings and other assets less liabilities shown as a percentage of net assets were as follows:

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    61.0%  

Chemicals

    17.6%  

Metals & Mining

    9.2%  

Exchange-Traded Funds

    3.4%  

Construction Materials

    2.4%  

Energy Equipment & Services

    2.4%  

Road & Rail

    1.9%  

Electrical Equipment

    1.4%  

Other assets less liabilities

    0.7%  
 

 

 

 
    100.0%  
 

 

 

 

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—94.7%

 

Australia—2.3%    

ALS Ltd.

    54,115       $279,560  

Austal Ltd.

    117,502       282,113  

Bapcor Ltd.

    44,700       175,475  

Charter Hall Retail REIT

    99,249       304,806  

Downer EDI Ltd.

    67,713       329,385  

Growthpoint Properties Australia Ltd. REIT (c)(d)(e)

    15,921       46,051  

Growthpoint Properties Australia Ltd. REIT

    20,100       58,169  

GUD Holdings Ltd.

    39,130       275,543  

NEXTDC Ltd. (e)

    55,644       253,998  

Nine Entertainment Co., Holdings Ltd.

    174,118       230,019  

Reliance Worldwide Corp. Ltd.

    70,800       175,195  

Santos Ltd.

    17,545       87,594  

Seven Group Holdings Ltd.

    19,100       248,894  

WorleyParsons Ltd.

    30,000       311,859  
   

 

 

 
      3,058,661  
   

 

 

 
Austria—1.7%

 

 

ANDRITZ AG

    14,594       549,447  

Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG

    2,474       210,082  

UNIQA Insurance Group AG

    79,964       745,147  

Wienerberger AG

    31,260       771,343  
   

 

 

 
      2,276,019  
   

 

 

 
Denmark—2.0%

 

 

Ambu A/S, Class B

    27,051       439,748  

FLSmidth & Co. A/S

    16,056       727,527  

ISS A/S

    23,296       704,303  

SimCorp A/S

    8,804       852,245  
   

 

 

 
      2,723,823  
   

 

 

 
Finland—0.4%

 

 

Huhtamaki Oyj

    11,510       473,370  
   

 

 

 
France—2.4%

 

 

Ingenico Group S.A.

    9,950       880,588  

Korian S.A.

    20,167       767,114  

Nexity S.A.

    17,458       754,408  

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

    4,708       742,372  
   

 

 

 
      3,144,482  
   

 

 

 
Germany—3.1%

 

 

alstria office REIT-AG

    51,892       840,251  

Bechtle AG

    7,271       836,788  

CANCOM SE

    16,989       901,753  

Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA

    15,697       773,444  

TLG Immobilien AG

    26,315       770,512  
   

 

 

 
      4,122,748  
   

 

 

 
Hong Kong—0.1%

 

 

Techtronic Industries Co., Ltd.

    25,000       191,521  
   

 

 

 
Indonesia—0.2%

 

 

Bank Tabungan Negara Persero Tbk PT

    485,600       84,597  

Jasa Marga Persero Tbk PT

    587,600       237,955  
   

 

 

 
      322,552  
   

 

 

 
Italy—1.0%

 

 

Buzzi Unicem SpA

    36,604       743,202  

De’ Longhi SpA

    27,842       563,490  
   

 

 

 
      1,306,692  
   

 

 

 
Japan—9.5%

 

 

Anritsu Corp.

    25,500       444,653  

Azbil Corp.

    28,000       685,638  
 

 

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     Shares     Value  

COMSYS Holdings Corp.

    38,800     $ 985,961  

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

    5,900       204,475  

Fuji Oil Holdings, Inc.

    5,400       162,896  

Hitachi Transport System Ltd.

    24,600       800,262  

Horiba Ltd.

    2,900       150,458  

Ichigo, Inc.

    85,000       250,231  

Itochu Techno-Solutions Corp.

    30,200       776,389  

KH Neochem Co., Ltd.

    14,100       346,726  

Kobe Bussan Co., Ltd.

    6,800       330,536  

Lion Corp.

    33,500       624,952  

Maruwa Co., Ltd.

    11,600       637,113  

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co., Ltd.

    167,300       889,022  

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.

    11,200       792,851  

Nishio Rent All Co., Ltd.

    15,900       450,206  

Oji Holdings Corp.

    82,200       476,152  

Okamura Corp.

    23,400       234,306  

Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd.

    80,000       393,150  

Rengo Co., Ltd.

    96,700       778,533  

Ship Healthcare Holdings, Inc.

    15,200       657,565  

Sojitz Corp.

    109,100       351,103  

THK Co., Ltd.

    9,900       238,129  

Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp.

    118,700       656,911  

Ube Industries Ltd.

    21,200       441,063  
   

 

 

 
      12,759,281  
   

 

 

 
Netherlands—1.1%

 

 

ASM International NV

    11,522       747,807  

ASR Nederland NV

    18,141       737,093  
   

 

 

 
      1,484,900  
   

 

 

 
Norway—1.0%

 

 

Elkem ASA (a)

    217,069       612,776  

Storebrand ASA

    99,579       732,903  
   

 

 

 
      1,345,679  
   

 

 

 
Singapore—0.7%

 

 

Frasers Centrepoint Trust

    178,500       343,016  

Mapletree Commercial Trust REIT

    175,900       271,803  

Mapletree Industrial Trust REIT

    158,000       261,674  
   

 

 

 
      876,493  
   

 

 

 
Sweden—0.7%

 

 

AAK AB

    48,111       912,375  
   

 

 

 
Switzerland—2.3%

 

 

Galenica AG (a)(e)

    16,205       814,289  

Georg Fischer AG

    653       624,662  

Interroll Holding AG

    357       897,803  

OC Oerlikon Corp. AG

    56,915       695,491  
   

 

 

 
      3,032,245  
   

 

 

 
Taiwan—0.1%

 

 

Merry Electronics Co., Ltd.

    33,000       180,205  
   

 

 

 
Thailand—0.2%

 

 

Amata Corp. PCL (c)(d)

    323,000       257,201  
   

 

 

 
United Kingdom—6.1%

 

 

ASOS PLC (e)

    12,838       416,668  

Auto Trader Group PLC (a)

    104,539       728,090  

Derwent London PLC REIT

    18,173       719,664  

Genus PLC

    24,368       820,703  

HomeServe PLC

    53,813       810,909  

Howden Joinery Group PLC

    113,993       733,629  

Intermediate Capital Group PLC

    49,462       867,593  

Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC

    168,243       881,350  

Rotork PLC

    194,312       781,173  
     Shares     Value  

Spectris PLC

    21,938     $ 801,330  

Tullow Oil PLC

    231,600       619,564  
   

 

 

 
      8,180,673  
   

 

 

 
United States—59.8%

 

 

Acacia Communications, Inc. (e)

    18,223       859,397  

Addus HomeCare Corp. (e)

    16,038       1,202,048  

Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (e)

    53,318       1,300,959  

Alteryx, Inc., Class A (e)

    8,200       894,784  

Americold Realty Trust REIT

    46,462       1,506,298  

Ameris Bancorp

    23,168       907,954  

ANGI Homeservices, Inc., Class A (e)

    54,548       709,669  

Axon Enterprise, Inc. (e)

    15,155       973,103  

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Class A (e)

    2,206       689,574  

Bluebird Bio, Inc. (e)

    1,320       167,904  

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (e)

    6,739       1,016,713  

Brink’s Co.

    11,070       898,663  

Brown & Brown, Inc.

    39,045       1,308,007  

CBIZ, Inc. (e)

    46,335       907,703  

CenterState Bank Corp.

    34,970       805,359  

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (e)

    3,795       538,511  

Chart Industries, Inc. (e)

    15,391       1,183,260  

Churchill Downs, Inc.

    6,676       768,207  

Columbus McKinnon Corp.

    16,797       704,970  

Dine Brands Global, Inc.

    10,586       1,010,645  

eHealth, Inc. (e)

    9,136       786,610  

Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. REIT

    8,843       1,073,010  

Essent Group Ltd. (e)

    21,885       1,028,376  

Etsy, Inc. (e)

    11,661       715,636  

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. REIT

    39,041       1,434,366  

First Merchants Corp.

    18,812       712,975  

Five9, Inc. (e)

    12,216       626,559  

Fluidigm Corp. (e)

    60,734       748,243  

Fox Factory Holding Corp. (e)

    11,487       947,792  

Freshpet, Inc. (e)

    24,689       1,123,596  

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.

    10,321       1,324,184  

Harsco Corp. (e)

    24,782       680,018  

HEICO Corp., Class A

    10,167       1,050,963  

Horizon Therapeutics PLC (e)

    42,530       1,023,272  

HubSpot, Inc. (e)

    3,973       677,476  

Ingevity Corp. (e)

    12,252       1,288,543  

Insperity, Inc.

    10,360       1,265,370  

Invitae Corp. (e)

    30,127       707,985  

Kilroy Realty Corp. REIT

    15,019       1,108,552  

Kinsale Capital Group, Inc.

    15,908       1,455,264  

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (e)

    43,433       994,181  

LendingTree, Inc. (e)

    1,941       815,278  

LHC Group, Inc. (e)

    8,781       1,050,032  

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.

    10,360       852,835  

LivePerson, Inc. (e)

    34,315       962,193  

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. (e)

    10,188       493,914  

LPL Financial Holdings, Inc.

    18,263       1,489,713  

Madison Square Garden Co., Class A (e)

    4,347       1,216,899  

Medifast, Inc.

    4,185       536,936  

Mercury Systems, Inc. (e)

    11,061       778,141  

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (e)

    21,765       1,296,323  

MKS Instruments, Inc.

    9,826       765,347  

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

    3,731       506,595  
     Shares     Value  

Natera, Inc. (e)

    38,984     $ 1,075,179  

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (e)

    3,829       323,282  

Nexstar Media Group, Inc., Class A

    10,819       1,092,719  

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. (e)

    5,485       477,798  

Omnicell, Inc. (e)

    9,085       781,583  

Perficient, Inc. (e)

    26,967       925,507  

Performance Food Group Co. (e)

    17,040       682,111  

Pluralsight, Inc., Class A (e)

    34,230       1,037,854  

Pool Corp.

    2,949       563,259  

PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (e)

    9,313       923,384  

ProPetro Holding Corp. (e)

    46,173       955,781  

Quanterix Corp. (e)

    12,649       427,410  

R1 RCM, Inc. (e)

    112,297       1,412,696  

Rapid7, Inc. (e)

    11,620       672,101  

REGENXBIO, Inc. (e)

    9,688       497,673  

Rosetta Stone, Inc. (e)

    34,292       784,601  

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (e)

    2,656       486,287  

Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (e)

    4,138       628,769  

Semtech Corp. (e)

    14,715       707,056  

Simply Good Foods Co. (e)

    52,523       1,264,754  

STAG Industrial, Inc. REIT

    51,154       1,546,897  

Strategic Education, Inc.

    5,103       908,334  

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (e)

    15,046       970,768  

TechTarget, Inc. (e)

    24,773       526,426  

Teladoc Health, Inc. (e)

    10,115       671,737  

Tetra Tech, Inc.

    11,448       899,240  

TPI Composites, Inc. (e)

    24,905       615,652  

Vericel Corp. (e)

    22,070       416,902  

Verint Systems, Inc. (e)

    18,941       1,018,647  

Vonage Holdings Corp. (e)

    56,028       634,797  

Western Alliance Bancorp (e)

    18,893       844,895  

WEX, Inc. (e)

    5,525       1,149,753  

WPX Energy, Inc. (e)

    74,038       852,177  

YETI Holdings, Inc. (e)

    43,721       1,265,723  

Zendesk, Inc. (e)

    6,018       535,783  

Zix Corp. (e)

    97,570       886,911  

Zynga, Inc., Class A (e)

    112,080       687,050  
   

 

 

 
      80,042,401  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock (cost—$106,378,340)

 

    126,691,321  
   

 

 

 
   
Preferred Stock—0.5%

 

 
Germany—0.5%

 

 

Jungheinrich AG (cost—$660,483)

    21,848       674,411  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—3.2%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co.,
dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $4,336,181; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Notes, 2.50%, due 5/15/24, valued at $4,423,069 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$4,336,000)

    $4,336       4,336,000  
   

 

 

 

Total Investments

(cost—$111,374,823) (b)—98.4%

 

 

    131,701,732  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less
liabilities—1.6%

 

    2,190,075  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%

 

    $133,891,807  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) 144A—Exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, typically only to qualified institutional buyers. Securities with an aggregate value of $2,155,155, representing 1.6% of net assets.

(b) Securities with an aggregate value of $42,652,007, representing 31.9% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) Fair-Valued—Securities with an aggregate value of $303,252, representing 0.2% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(d) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(e) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

 

The industry classification of portfolio holdings and other assets less liabilities shown as a percentage of net assets were as follows:

 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

    7.1%  

Machinery

    6.6%  

Software

    6.1%  

Insurance

    5.3%  

Healthcare Providers & Services

    4.4%  

IT Services

    4.0%  

Biotechnology

    3.8%  

Aerospace & Defense

    3.1%  

Life Sciences Tools & Services

    3.0%  

Commercial Services & Supplies

    2.9%  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

    2.8%  

Food Products

    2.6%  

Banks

    2.5%  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

    2.0%  

Healthcare Equipment & Supplies

    2.0%  

Real Estate Management & Development

    2.0%  

Chemicals

    2.0%  

Entertainment

    2.0%  

Professional Services

    1.8%  

Capital Markets

    1.8%  

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

    1.5%  

Auto Components

    1.5%  

Diversified Consumer Services

    1.4%  

Media

    1.4%  

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance

    1.4%  

Pharmaceuticals

    1.4%  

Trading Companies & Distributors

    1.3%  

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

    1.3%  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    1.2%  

Construction Materials

    1.1%  

Energy Equipment & Services

    1.1%  

Healthcare Technology

    1.1%  

Interactive Media & Services

    1.1%  

Construction & Engineering

    1.0%  

Air Freight & Logistics

    1.0%  

Leisure Equipment & Products

    0.9%  

Containers & Packaging

    0.9%  

Food & Staples Retailing

    0.8%  

Diversified Financial Services

    0.7%  

Communications Equipment

    0.6%  

Electrical Equipment

    0.6%  

Road & Rail

    0.6%  

Distributors

    0.6%  

Diversified Telecommunication Services

    0.5%  

Household Products

    0.5%  

Household Durables

    0.4%  

Personal Products

    0.4%  

Multi-Line Retail

    0.4%  

Paper & Forest Products

    0.4%  

Transportation Infrastructure

    0.2%  

Building Products

    0.1%  

Repurchase Agreements

    3.2%  

Other assets less liabilities

    1.6%  
 

 

 

 
    100.0%  
 

 

 

 

AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—97.9%

 

Biotechnology—15.3%

 

 

AbbVie, Inc.

    41,000       $2,981,520  

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (d)

    6,910       905,072  

Amarin Corp. PLC ADR (d)

    32,710       634,247  

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (d)

    10,090       591,577  

Argenx SE ADR (d)

    4,150       587,557  

Ascendis Pharma A/S ADR (d)

    3,600       414,540  

BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (d)

    21,909       1,876,506  

Bluebird Bio, Inc. (d)

    2,625       333,900  

Celgene Corp. (d)

    21,180       1,957,879  

CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    16,559       185,792  

Exact Sciences Corp. (d)

    5,100       602,004  

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

    49,396       3,337,194  

Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    39,355       731,609  

Insmed, Inc. (d)

    26,215       671,104  

Invitae Corp. (d)

    24,557       577,089  

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (d)

    28,715       704,092  

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (d)

    12,325       1,040,600  

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    5,960       1,091,216  

Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    5,100       774,945  

uniQure NV (d)

    3,000       234,450  

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (d)

    19,245       3,529,148  
   

 

 

 
      23,762,041  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—20.9%

 

Abbott Laboratories

    67,098       5,642,942  

ABIOMED, Inc. (d)

    4,155       1,082,336  

Alcon, Inc. (d)

    32,875       2,039,894  

Align Technology, Inc. (d)

    2,285       625,405  

Becton Dickinson and Co.

    12,845       3,237,068  

Boston Scientific Corp. (d)

    115,157       4,949,448  

DENTSPLY SIRONA, Inc.

    6,970       406,769  

DexCom, Inc. (d)

    10,220       1,531,365  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (d)

    2,190       404,581  

Haemonetics Corp. (d)

    10,630       1,279,214  

Insulet Corp. (d)

    9,955       1,188,428  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (d)

    7,855       4,120,340  

Quotient Ltd. (d)

    150,789       1,409,877  

Vapotherm, Inc. (d)

    54,255       1,247,865  

Wright Medical Group NV (d)

    37,125       1,107,067  

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.

    18,795       2,212,923  
   

 

 

 
      32,485,522  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—14.0%

 

Anthem, Inc.

    16,265       4,590,146  

CVS Health Corp.

    56,470       3,077,050  

Humana, Inc.

    16,260       4,313,778  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

    38,801       9,467,832  

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (d)

    1,515       431,881  
   

 

 

 
      21,880,687  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—7.1%

 

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (d)

    28,150       1,359,645  

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

    42,955       3,207,450  

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Class A (d)

    2,505       783,038  

Illumina, Inc. (d)

    7,945       2,924,952  

PerkinElmer, Inc.

    8,475       816,482  
 

 

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Table of Contents

Schedule of Investments

June 30, 2019

 

 

     Shares     Value  

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

    6,540     $ 1,920,667  
   

 

 

 
      11,012,234  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—40.6%

 

 

AIT Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    123,899       687,640  

Allergan PLC

    11,161       1,868,686  

Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. (d)

    38,000       196,080  

AstraZeneca PLC ADR

    197,615       8,157,547  

Bayer AG

    25,485       1,767,647  

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

    125,010       5,669,204  

Catalent, Inc. (d)

    30,330       1,644,189  

Dermira, Inc. (d)

    55,990       535,264  

Elanco Animal Health, Inc. (d)

    85,365       2,885,337  

Horizon Therapeutics PLC (d)

    56,535       1,360,232  

Johnson & Johnson

    36,007       5,015,055  

Merck & Co., Inc.

    120,262       10,083,969  

Mylan NV (d)

    47,231       899,278  

Novartis AG ADR

    100,388       9,166,428  

Pfizer, Inc.

    67,619       2,929,255  

Sanofi ADR

    121,365       5,251,464  

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (d)

    44,200       1,572,319  

Zoetis, Inc.

    29,990       3,403,565  
   

 

 

 
      63,093,159  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock (cost—$130,867,839)       152,233,643  
   

 

 

 
   
    Units        
Warrants—0.2%

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—0.2%

 

 

AIT Therapeutics, Inc., (b)(c)(d) (cost—$1,239)

    123,899       184,981  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—2.3%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $3,619,151; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Notes, 2.50%, due 5/15/24, valued at $3,691,941 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$3,619,000)

    $3,619       3,619,000  
   

 

 

 

Total Investments

(cost—$134,488,078) (a)—100.4%

 

 

    156,037,624  
   

 

 

 
Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.4)%       (549,057
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $155,488,567  
   

 

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Securities with an aggregate value of $3,339,966, representing 2.1% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(b) Fair-Valued—Security with a value of $184,981, representing 0.1% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(d) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—32.9%

 

Advertising—0.0%

 

Mood Media Corp. (d)(f)(k)

    286,500       $266,445  
   

 

 

 
Aerospace & Defense—1.1%

 

 

Arconic, Inc.

    286,070       7,386,327  

Boeing Co. (g)

    65,500       23,842,655  

Erickson,
Inc. (d)(f)(k)

    10,866       272,411  

Raytheon Co.

    96,400       16,762,032  
   

 

 

 
      48,263,425  
   

 

 

 
Apparel & Textiles—0.0%

 

 

Quiksilver,
Inc. (d)(f)(k)

    2,328       44,930  
   

 

 

 
Automobiles—0.3%

 

 

Ford Motor Co.

    1,199,700       12,272,931  
   

 

 

 
Banks—1.1%

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

    676,900       19,630,100  

CCF Holdings LLC, Class A (cost—$0; purchased 12/18/18) (d)(f)(i)(k)

    31,304       3  

CCF Holdings LLC, Class B (cost—$0; purchased
12/12/18) (d)(f)(h)(i)(k)

    42,857       4  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (g)

    274,100       30,644,380  
   

 

 

 
      50,274,487  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—0.3%

 

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

    120,300       15,774,939  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—1.4%

 

 

AbbVie, Inc.

    215,900       15,700,248  

Biogen, Inc. (k)

    29,700       6,945,939  

BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (k)

    3,926       336,262  

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

    239,250       16,163,730  

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (g)(k)

    119,700       21,950,586  
   

 

 

 
      61,096,765  
   

 

 

 
Building Products—0.3%

 

 

Johnson Controls International PLC

    370,382       15,300,480  

Resideo Technologies,
Inc. (k)

    11,016       241,471  
   

 

 

 
      15,541,951  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—0.3%

 

 

S&P Global, Inc. (g)

    62,100       14,145,759  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—0.3%

 

 

Chemours Co.

    238,400       5,721,600  

Corteva, Inc. (k)

    59,533       1,760,391  

Dow, Inc. (k)

    59,533       2,935,572  

DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

    59,533       4,469,142  
   

 

 

 
      14,886,705  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services—0.0%

 

 

Cenveo
Corp. (d)(f)(k)

    19,074       576,798  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—0.1%

 

Stericycle, Inc. (k)

    66,843       3,191,753  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—0.6%

 

Cisco Systems, Inc.

    535,600       29,313,388  
   

 

 

 
Construction & Engineering—0.2%

 

Fluor Corp.

    209,800       7,068,162  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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     Shares     Value  
Diversified Telecommunication Services—0.0%

 

Frontier Communications Corp. (k)

    210,781     $ 368,867  
   

 

 

 
Energy Equipment & Services—0.2%

 

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

    145,600       3,236,688  

Schlumberger Ltd.

    172,400       6,851,176  
   

 

 

 
      10,087,864  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.6%

 

 

Netflix, Inc. (k)

    83,100       30,524,292  

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (g)(k)

    139,700       15,860,141  

Walt Disney Co. (g)

    201,300       28,109,532  
   

 

 

 
      74,493,965  
   

 

 

 
Food & Staples Retailing—1.3%

 

 

Costco Wholesale Corp.

    120,400       31,816,904  

Kroger Co.

    472,000       10,247,120  

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

    286,600       15,668,422  
   

 

 

 
      57,732,446  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—0.1%

 

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

    159,650       6,513,720  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—1.5%

 

Align Technology,
Inc. (k)

    73,900       20,226,430  

Boston Scientific
Corp. (k)

    611,600       26,286,568  

Intuitive Surgical,
Inc. (k)

    41,800       21,926,190  
   

 

 

 
      68,439,188  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—1.1%

 

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (k)

    49,000       8,472,100  

McKesson Corp.

    114,300       15,360,777  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

    106,600       26,011,466  
   

 

 

 
      49,844,343  
   

 

 

 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—1.2%

 

McDonald’s Corp.

    112,000       23,257,920  

Starbucks Corp. (g)

    239,300       20,060,519  

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

    76,700       9,510,033  
   

 

 

 
      52,828,472  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—0.3%

 

 

DR Horton, Inc. (g)

    320,000       13,801,600  
   

 

 

 
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders—0.1%

 

Vistra Energy Corp.

    144,101       3,262,447  
   

 

 

 
Industrial Conglomerates—0.8%

 

3M Co.

    50,100       8,684,334  

General Electric Co.

    326,200       3,425,100  

Honeywell International, Inc. (g)

    131,500       22,958,585  
   

 

 

 
      35,068,019  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—0.4%

 

 

Progressive Corp.

    229,700       18,359,921  
   

 

 

 
Interactive Media & Services—1.7%

 

Alphabet, Inc., Class A (g)(k)

    34,800       37,681,440  

Facebook, Inc., Class A (g)(k)

    211,800       40,877,400  
   

 

 

 
      78,558,840  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—1.5%

 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ADR (k)

    142,081       24,075,626  

Amazon.com, Inc. (k)

    23,600       44,689,668  
   

 

 

 
      68,765,294  
   

 

 

 
     Shares     Value  
IT Services—2.5%

 

 

Fiserv, Inc. (g)(k)

    217,500     $ 19,827,300  

International Business Machines Corp.

    92,200       12,714,380  

Mastercard, Inc., Class A

    42,200       11,163,166  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (k)

    195,200       22,342,592  

Visa, Inc., Class A

    262,000       45,470,100  
   

 

 

 
      111,517,538  
   

 

 

 
Machinery—1.0%

 

 

Caterpillar, Inc.

    202,500       27,598,725  

Deere & Co. (g)

    111,900       18,542,949  

Wabtec Corp.

    1,752       125,724  
   

 

 

 
      46,267,398  
   

 

 

 
Media—0.4%

 

 

Comcast Corp., Class A

    437,700       18,505,956  

LiveStyle, Inc. (a)(d)(f)(h)(k)(l)

    202,319       20  

Postmedia Network Canada
Corp. (d)(f)(k)

    1,018,823       1,018,823  
   

 

 

 
      19,524,799  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—0.1%

 

 

ArcelorMittal

    180,611       3,256,416  

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.

    113,100       1,313,091  
   

 

 

 
      4,569,507  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—0.3%

 

 

Target Corp. (g)

    166,700       14,437,887  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—0.9%

 

Arch Coal, Inc., Class A

    1,858       175,042  

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (k)

    1,250,759       2,438,980  

Hercules Offshore, Inc. (d)(f)(k)

    174,935       18  

Hess Corp.

    29,237       1,858,596  

Kinder Morgan, Inc.

    187,778       3,920,805  

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

    229,700       11,549,316  

Riviera Resources, Inc. (k)

    25,527       324,193  

Roan Resources, Inc. (k)

    25,527       44,417  

Southwestern Energy Co. (k)

    508,010       1,605,312  

Talos Energy,
Inc. (k)

    98,625       2,371,931  

Valero Energy Corp.

    171,200       14,656,432  

Vanguard Natural Resources,
Inc. (k)

    12,187       119  
   

 

 

 
      38,945,161  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—1.1%

 

 

Allergan PLC

    99,241       16,615,921  

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

    242,700       11,006,445  

Merck & Co., Inc.

    238,200       19,973,070  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ADR (k)

    248,006       2,289,095  
   

 

 

 
      49,884,531  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—0.3%

 

 

Union Pacific
Corp. (g)

    87,500       14,797,125  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors—0.0%

 

 

GT Advanced Technologies, Inc. (d)(f)(k)

    537       † 
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—2.5%

 

Broadcom, Inc. (g)

    84,700       24,381,742  

Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

    523,300       12,491,171  

Micron Technology, Inc. (k)

    491,800       18,978,562  
     Shares     Value  

NVIDIA Corp.

    116,800     $ 19,182,064  

QUALCOMM, Inc.

    185,700       14,126,199  

Texas Instruments, Inc.

    189,100       21,701,116  
   

 

 

 
      110,860,854  
   

 

 

 
Software—3.5%

 

 

Adobe, Inc. (g)(k)

    129,900       38,275,035  

Intuit, Inc. (g)

    56,800       14,843,544  

Microsoft Corp. (g)

    368,100       49,310,676  

Salesforce.com, Inc. (k)

    140,300       21,287,719  

ServiceNow, Inc. (k)

    86,200       23,667,934  

Workday, Inc., Class A (g)(k)

    55,900       11,491,922  
   

 

 

 
      158,876,830  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—0.6%

 

 

Home Depot,
Inc. (g)

    140,800       29,282,176  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—1.3%

 

Apple, Inc. (g)

    227,200       44,967,424  

NetApp, Inc.

    196,300       12,111,710  

Western Digital Corp.

    1,953       92,865  
   

 

 

 
      57,171,999  
   

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—0.5%

 

NIKE, Inc.,
Class B (g)

    244,600       20,534,170  
   

 

 

 
Trading Companies & Distributors—0.1%

 

WESCO International, Inc. (k)

    54,455       2,758,146  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock (cost—$1,828,074,060)

 

    1,490,271,545  
   

 

 

 
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Corporate Bonds & Notes—31.0%

 

Advertising—0.0%    

Mood Media Borrower LLC,

 

9.25%, 12/31/23

    $1,164       1,699,423  
   

 

 

 
Aerospace & Defense—0.6%

 

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions,
Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.50%, 11/30/25

    5,660       6,098,650  

TransDigm, Inc.,

 

6.50%, 7/15/24

    5,000       5,081,250  

6.50%, 5/15/25

    11,545       11,718,175  

Triumph Group, Inc.,

 

7.75%, 8/15/25

    5,855       5,679,350  
   

 

 

 
      28,577,425  
   

 

 

 
Auto Components—0.9%

 

Adient U.S. LLC (a)(b),

 

7.00%, 5/15/26

    7,210       7,426,300  

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.,

 

6.625%, 10/15/22

    4,808       4,904,160  

Delphi Technologies PLC (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 10/1/25

    8,155       7,278,338  

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,

 

5.00%, 5/31/26

    8,985       8,883,919  

Panther BF Aggregator 2 L.P. (a)(b),

 

8.50%, 5/15/27

    10,895       11,249,087  
   

 

 

 
      39,741,804  
   

 

 

 
Auto Manufacturers—0.5%

 

Navistar International Corp. (a)(b),

 

6.625%, 11/1/25

    10,715       11,277,537  

Tesla, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.30%, 8/15/25

    12,230       10,777,688  
   

 

 

 
      22,055,225  
   

 

 

 
Banks—0.1%    

CIT Group, Inc.,

 

6.125%, 3/9/28

    5,640       6,429,600  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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Principal
Amount
(000s)

    Value  
Building Materials—0.3%

 

Builders FirstSource, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 9/1/24

  $ 7,415     $ 7,670,224  

Jeld-Wen, Inc. (a)(b),

 

4.875%, 12/15/27

    4,635       4,495,950  
   

 

 

 
      12,166,174  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—1.0%    

Chemours Co.,

 

6.625%, 5/15/23

    7,000       7,266,840  

7.00%, 5/15/25

    4,115       4,310,463  

Kraton Polymers LLC (a)(b),

 

7.00%, 4/15/25

    6,865       6,985,137  

Olin Corp.,

 

5.00%, 2/1/30

    8,130       8,069,025  

PQ Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.75%, 12/15/25

    3,100       3,150,375  

Trinseo Materials Operating SCA (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 9/1/25

    5,645       5,461,537  

Tronox Finance PLC (a)(b),

 

5.75%, 10/1/25

    5,510       5,365,363  

Tronox, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.50%, 4/15/26

    5,835       5,796,839  
   

 

 

 
      46,405,579  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services—1.7%

 

Ashtead Capital, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.25%, 8/1/26

    4,370       4,584,527  

Cardtronics, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 5/1/25

    2,490       2,490,000  

Cenveo
Corp. (a)(b)(c)(d)(f),

   

6.00%, 5/15/24
(cost—$9,355,515; purchased 3/22/12-3/11/16) (i)

    8,116       446,380  

8.50%, 9/15/22

    1,520       30,400  

Gartner, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.125%, 4/1/25

    7,980       8,250,602  

Herc Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 7/15/27

    10,005       10,092,544  

Hertz Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 10/15/24

    5,215       5,007,965  

7.625%, 6/1/22

    5,820       6,052,800  

Laureate Education, Inc. (a)(b),

 

8.25%, 5/1/25

    8,795       9,652,512  

Monitronics International, Inc. (c),

 

9.125%, 4/1/20

    6,450       419,250  

RR Donnelley & Sons Co.,

 

6.00%, 4/1/24

    3,195       3,195,000  

7.00%, 2/15/22

    5,500       5,582,500  

United Rentals North America, Inc.,

 

5.25%, 1/15/30

    9,260       9,537,800  

5.50%, 7/15/25

    8,930       9,320,687  
   

 

 

 
      74,662,967  
   

 

 

 
Computers—0.4%

 

 

Dell International LLC (a)(b),

 

7.125%, 6/15/24

    7,485       7,902,135  

DynCorp International, Inc., PIK 1.50%,

 

11.875%, 11/30/20

    713       724,163  

Harland Clarke Holdings Corp. (a)(b),

 

9.25%, 3/1/21

    7,380       7,213,950  
   

 

 

 
      15,840,248  
   

 

 

 
Containers & Packaging—0.2%

 

 

Berry Global Escrow Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 7/15/27

    9,855       10,273,837  
   

 

 

 
Distribution/Wholesale—0.4%

 

 

H&E Equipment Services, Inc.,

 

5.625%, 9/1/25

    9,845       10,162,501  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

KAR Auction Services, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.125%, 6/1/25

  $ 6,525     $ 6,671,813  
   

 

 

 
      16,834,314  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Financial Services—1.4%

 

Ally Financial, Inc.,

 

5.75%, 11/20/25

    5,675       6,298,682  

8.00%, 3/15/20

    2,995       3,103,569  

CCF Holdings LLC, PIK 10.75% (a)(b)(c)(d)(f),

 

10.75%, 12/15/23

    10,199       3,683,024  

Community Choice Financial Issuer LLC
(cost—$12,000,000; purchased 9/6/18) (a)(b)(i),

 

9.00%, 6/15/23

    12,000       12,015,000  

Navient Corp.,

 

6.75%, 6/15/26

    10,370       10,784,800  

7.25%, 9/25/23

    5,435       5,822,244  

Springleaf Finance Corp.,

 

6.625%, 1/15/28

    9,660       10,167,150  

8.25%, 10/1/23

    8,080       9,405,120  
   

 

 

 
      61,279,589  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—0.4%

 

 

Calpine Corp.,

 

5.75%, 1/15/25

    6,140       6,116,975  

NRG Energy, Inc.,

 

5.75%, 1/15/28

    9,190       9,890,737  

Talen Energy Supply LLC,

 

6.50%, 6/1/25

    3,365       2,835,013  
   

 

 

 
      18,842,725  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—0.1%

 

 

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

7.75%, 1/15/27

    3,820       4,144,051  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—0.2%

 

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 6/15/25

    9,890       10,038,350  
   

 

 

 
Engineering & Construction—0.6%

 

AECOM,

 

5.125%, 3/15/27

    2,125       2,220,625  

5.875%, 10/15/24

    8,550       9,291,712  

TopBuild Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 5/1/26

    5,965       6,129,038  

Tutor Perini Corp. (a)(b),

 

6.875%, 5/1/25

    11,480       11,020,800  
   

 

 

 
      28,662,175  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.6%

 

 

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.,

 

6.125%, 5/15/27

    12,225       10,941,375  

Cedar Fair L.P.,

 

5.375%, 6/1/24

    5,900       6,091,750  

5.375%, 4/15/27

    2,465       2,569,763  

Eldorado Resorts, Inc.,

 

6.00%, 9/15/26

    4,865       5,339,338  

International Game Technology PLC (a)(b),

 

6.25%, 1/15/27

    5,705       6,261,237  

6.50%, 2/15/25

    4,715       5,178,013  

Lions Gate Capital Holdings LLC (a)(b),

 

6.375%, 2/1/24

    9,370       9,873,637  

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 3/15/26

    4,145       4,357,431  

Scientific Games International, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 10/15/25

    10,510       10,641,375  

Stars Group Holdings BV (a)(b),

 

7.00%, 7/15/26

    9,065       9,608,900  
   

 

 

 
      70,862,819  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—0.3%

 

CyrusOne L.P.,

 

5.00%, 3/15/24

    5,425       5,586,671  

5.375%, 3/15/27

    2,565       2,711,686  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Equinix, Inc.,

 

5.375%, 5/15/27

  $ 4,165     $ 4,475,167  

Uniti Group L.P. (a)(b),

 

7.125%, 12/15/24

    2,500       2,256,250  
   

 

 

 
      15,029,774  
   

 

 

 
Food & Beverage—0.4%

 

 

Albertsons Cos. LLC,

 

6.625%, 6/15/24

    3,115       3,243,494  

7.50%, 3/15/26 (a)(b)

    5,350       5,737,875  

Post Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.75%, 3/1/27

    9,655       10,017,062  
   

 

 

 
      18,998,431  
   

 

 

 
Food Service—0.2%

 

 

Aramark Services, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 2/1/28

    9,360       9,652,500  
   

 

 

 
Hand/Machine Tools—0.2%

 

 

Colfax Corp. (a)(b),

 

6.00%, 2/15/24

    1,940       2,058,825  

6.375%, 2/15/26

    6,655       7,145,806  
   

 

 

 
      9,204,631  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—0.2%

 

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 8/15/26

    6,135       6,518,438  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare-Products—0.4%

 

 

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 2/15/25

    4,255       4,403,925  

Mallinckrodt International Finance S.A. (a)(b),

 

5.75%, 8/1/22

    10,965       9,484,725  

Teleflex, Inc.,

 

5.25%, 6/15/24

    2,990       3,075,028  
   

 

 

 
      16,963,678  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare-Services—1.7%

 

 

Centene Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 6/1/26

    6,975       7,349,906  

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 4/1/26

    5,340       5,632,632  

Community Health Systems, Inc.,

 

6.875%, 2/1/22

    2,500       1,700,000  

7.125%, 7/15/20

    4,595       4,399,712  

8.00%, 11/15/19

    1,705       1,680,491  

Community Health Systems, Inc.,

 

6.25%, 3/31/23

    1,985       1,918,006  

DaVita, Inc.,

 

5.125%, 7/15/24

    8,620       8,644,136  

Encompass Health Corp.,

 

5.75%, 11/1/24

    7,650       7,818,682  

HCA, Inc.,

 

5.375%, 9/1/26

    2,965       3,202,200  

5.625%, 9/1/28

    2,420       2,625,700  

7.50%, 2/15/22

    8,185       9,044,425  

Tenet Healthcare Corp.,

 

6.25%, 2/1/27 (a)(b)

    4,110       4,238,438  

7.00%, 8/1/25

    5,000       5,000,000  

8.125%, 4/1/22

    10,865       11,448,994  
   

 

 

 
      74,703,322  
   

 

 

 
Home Builders—0.3%

 

 

Beazer Homes USA, Inc.,

 

5.875%, 10/15/27

    1,885       1,644,097  

Brookfield Residential Properties, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.50%, 12/15/20

    6,050       6,065,125  

KB Home,

 

8.00%, 3/15/20

    3,905       4,042,456  

Lennar Corp.,

 

5.875%, 11/15/24

    2,665       2,931,500  
   

 

 

 
      14,683,178  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  
Household Products/Wares—0.1%

 

Spectrum Brands, Inc.,

 

5.75%, 7/15/25

  $ 4,725     $ 4,931,719  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—0.2%

 

 

CNO Financial Group, Inc.,

 

5.25%, 5/30/25

    3,730       4,030,731  

Prudential Financial, Inc.,
(converts to FRN on 9/15/28) (j),

 

5.70%, 9/15/48

    4,550       4,886,658  
   

 

 

 
      8,917,389  
   

 

 

 
Internet—0.9%

 

 

Go Daddy Operating Co. LLC (a)(b),

 

5.25%, 12/1/27

    8,500       8,829,375  

Match Group, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 12/15/27

    8,485       8,929,614  

Netflix, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 11/15/29

    10,465       11,141,981  

Symantec Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 4/15/25

    5,390       5,527,894  

Zayo Group LLC (a)(b),

 

5.75%, 1/15/27

    7,400       7,548,000  
   

 

 

 
      41,976,864  
   

 

 

 
Iron/Steel—0.2%

 

 

AK Steel Corp.,

 

7.00%, 3/15/27

    3,580       2,899,800  

United States Steel Corp.,

 

6.875%, 8/15/25

    8,595       8,122,275  
   

 

 

 
      11,022,075  
   

 

 

 
Lodging—0.7%

 

 

Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc.,

 

5.125%, 5/1/26

    6,795       7,109,269  

MGM Resorts International,

 

5.50%, 4/15/27

    7,270       7,642,587  

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 4/15/26

    7,110       7,474,388  

Wynn Las Vegas LLC (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 3/1/25

    7,275       7,531,807  
   

 

 

 
      29,758,051  
   

 

 

 
Machinery-Construction & Mining—0.2%

 

Terex Corp. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 2/1/25

    7,570       7,674,088  
   

 

 

 
Machinery-Diversified—0.1%

 

 

Mueller Water Products, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 6/15/26

    3,840       3,974,400  

Tennant Co.,

 

5.625%, 5/1/25

    1,395       1,447,313  
   

 

 

 
      5,421,713  
   

 

 

 
Media—2.7%

 

 

Cablevision Systems Corp.,

 

8.00%, 4/15/20

    6,250       6,470,813  

CCO Holdings LLC (a)(b),

 

5.125%, 5/1/27

    1,625       1,686,523  

5.50%, 5/1/26

    6,460       6,776,863  

Clear Channel Worldwide Holdings,
Inc. (a)(b),

 

9.25%, 2/15/24

    10,230       11,125,125  

CSC Holdings LLC (a)(b),

 

7.50%, 4/1/28

    9,860       10,873,608  

7.75%, 7/15/25

    6,160       6,679,904  

10.875%, 10/15/25

    4,145       4,761,589  

DISH DBS Corp.,

 

5.875%, 7/15/22

    4,880       4,971,500  

6.75%, 6/1/21

    8,250       8,683,125  

Gray Television, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.875%, 7/15/26

    10,065       10,467,600  

LiveStyle, Inc.
(cost—$7,043,991;
purchased 1/31/14-10/7/15) (a)(b)(c)(d)(f)(i)(l),

 

9.625%, 2/1/19

    7,628       8  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Meredith Corp.,

 

6.875%, 2/1/26

  $ 9,225     $ 9,835,049  

Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.,

 

5.625%, 8/1/24 (a)(b)

    6,765       7,025,182  

5.875%, 11/15/22

    4,615       4,730,375  

Nexstar Escrow, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 7/15/27

    10,085       10,362,337  

Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 8/1/27

    9,715       9,920,472  

Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 5/15/29

    5,725       5,818,031  
   

 

 

 
      120,188,104  
   

 

 

 
Metal Fabricate/Hardware—0.2%

 

Park-Ohio Industries, Inc.,

 

6.625%, 4/15/27

    7,995       8,034,975  
   

 

 

 
Mining—0.6%

 

 

Alcoa Nederland Holding BV (a)(b),

 

6.75%, 9/30/24

    8,070       8,564,287  

Constellium NV (a)(b),

 

6.625%, 3/1/25

    9,605       9,989,200  

Hudbay Minerals, Inc. (a)(b),

 

7.625%, 1/15/25

    4,965       5,151,188  

Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. (a)(b),

 

11.00%, 5/15/22

    1,500       1,586,719  
   

 

 

 
      25,291,394  
   

 

 

 
Miscellaneous Manufacturing—0.2%

 

Koppers, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.00%, 2/15/25

    7,345       6,922,663  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—2.8%

 

AmeriGas Partners L.P.,

 

5.875%, 8/20/26

    5,780       6,155,700  

Callon Petroleum Co.,

 

6.125%, 10/1/24

    4,820       4,892,300  

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P.,

 

6.50%, 4/15/21

    6,225       6,225,000  

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.,

 

6.25%, 4/15/23

    9,725       9,421,094  

Chesapeake Energy Corp.,

 

8.00%, 1/15/25

    7,730       7,169,575  

8.00%, 3/15/26 (a)(b)

    6,301       5,749,662  

CNX Resources Corp.,

 

5.875%, 4/15/22

    3,603       3,512,925  

Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (b)(c),

 

7.75%, 12/1/23

    9,216       645,120  

CVR Refining LLC,

 

6.50%, 11/1/22

    5,550       5,665,162  

Ensco Rowan PLC,

 

5.20%, 3/15/25

    1,295       956,681  

7.75%, 2/1/26

    6,640       4,980,000  

EP Energy LLC,

 

9.375%, 5/1/20

    8,765       1,007,975  

Nabors Industries, Inc.,

 

5.75%, 2/1/25

    1,910       1,702,288  

Noble Holding International Ltd.,

 

7.75%, 1/15/24

    6,955       5,337,963  

Oasis Petroleum, Inc.,

 

6.875%, 3/15/22

    10,145       10,113,297  

Range Resources Corp.,

 

4.875%, 5/15/25

    8,965       7,911,612  

Sable Permian Resources Land LLC (a)(b)(c),

 

7.375%, 11/1/21

    5,000       500,000  

Sanchez Energy Corp.,

 

6.125%, 1/15/23

    6,240       312,000  

SM Energy Co.,

 

6.625%, 1/15/27

    9,360       8,704,800  

Sunoco L.P.,

 

5.50%, 2/15/26

    4,605       4,806,469  

5.875%, 3/15/28

    4,830       5,017,163  

Talos Production LLC,

 

11.00%, 4/3/22

    1,168       1,236,548  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Transocean, Inc. (a)(b),

 

7.50%, 1/15/26

  $ 12,010     $ 11,499,575  

USA Compression Partners L.P. (a)(b),

 

6.875%, 9/1/27

    10,045       10,598,580  

Weatherford International Ltd. (c),

 

8.25%, 6/15/23

    2,170       1,144,675  
   

 

 

 
      125,266,164  
   

 

 

 
Paper & Forest Products—0.2%

 

 

Mercer International, Inc.,

 

5.50%, 1/15/26

    5,370       5,363,287  

7.375%, 1/15/25 (a)(b)

    3,825       4,073,625  
   

 

 

 
      9,436,912  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—0.8%

 

 

Bausch Health Americas, Inc. (a)(b),

 

8.50%, 1/31/27

    6,635       7,311,903  

Bausch Health Cos., Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.125%, 4/15/25

    7,220       7,382,450  

7.25%, 5/30/29

    7,305       7,615,462  

Endo Finance LLC (a)(b),

 

5.375%, 1/15/23

    10,730       7,779,250  

Horizon Pharma USA, Inc.,

 

6.625%, 5/1/23

    3,844       3,961,723  

8.75%, 11/1/24 (a)(b)

    1,370       1,476,586  
   

 

 

 
      35,527,374  
   

 

 

 
Pipelines—1.0%

 

 

Cheniere Energy Partners L.P. (a)(b),

 

5.625%, 10/1/26

    8,410       8,893,575  

Crestwood Midstream Partners L.P.,

 

5.75%, 4/1/25

    8,310       8,455,425  

DCP Midstream Operating L.P.,

 

5.125%, 5/15/29

    9,570       9,845,137  

NGL Energy Partners L.P. (a)(b),

 

7.50%, 4/15/26

    9,405       9,828,225  

Targa Resources Partners L.P. (a)(b),

 

6.50%, 7/15/27

    4,170       4,555,725  

6.875%, 1/15/29

    4,320       4,795,200  
   

 

 

 
      46,373,287  
   

 

 

 
Real Estate—0.5%

 

 

Iron Mountain, Inc. (a)(b),

 

4.875%, 9/15/27

    8,150       8,119,437  

Kennedy-Wilson, Inc.,

 

5.875%, 4/1/24

    10,198       10,452,950  

Uniti Group L.P.,

 

8.25%, 10/15/23

    6,445       6,009,963  
   

 

 

 
      24,582,350  
   

 

 

 
Retail—1.1%

 

 

1011778 BC ULC (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 10/15/25

    10,990       11,103,197  

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (a)(b),

 

4.875%, 11/1/25

    7,725       7,676,719  

Conn’s, Inc.,

   

7.25%, 7/15/22

    12,570       12,632,850  

L Brands, Inc.,

   

6.875%, 11/1/35

    2,655       2,374,526  

Men’s Wearhouse, Inc.,

   

7.00%, 7/1/22

    3,718       3,597,165  

Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. LLC (a)(b),

 

8.00%, 10/15/21

    6,810       4,732,950  

Party City Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.625%, 8/1/26

    9,755       9,486,737  
   

 

 

 
      51,604,144  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors—0.4%

 

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,

 

7.50%, 8/15/22

    2,670       3,023,775  

Amkor Technology, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.625%, 9/15/27

    11,410       11,396,879  
 

 

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     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Broadcom Corp.,

   

3.875%, 1/15/27

  $ 5,195     $ 5,097,083  
   

 

 

 
      19,517,737  
   

 

 

 
Software—1.0%

 

 

Camelot Finance S.A. (a)(b),

 

7.875%, 10/15/24

    9,045       9,531,169  

IQVIA, Inc. (a)(b),

   

5.00%, 5/15/27

    10,210       10,567,350  

j2 Cloud Services LLC (a)(b),

 

6.00%, 7/15/25

    9,810       10,312,762  

MSCI, Inc. (a)(b),

   

5.375%, 5/15/27

    2,885       3,094,163  

Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (a)(b),

 

8.625%, 11/15/24

    3,120       2,878,200  

SS&C Technologies, Inc. (a)(b),

 

5.50%, 9/30/27

    10,230       10,632,806  
   

 

 

 
      47,016,450  
   

 

 

 
Telecommunications—2.9%

 

 

CenturyLink, Inc.,

   

6.75%, 12/1/23, Ser. W

    2,000       2,162,500  

7.50%, 4/1/24, Ser. Y

    9,535       10,571,931  

Cincinnati Bell,
Inc. (a)(b),

   

7.00%, 7/15/24

    11,630       10,321,625  

CommScope Technologies LLC (a)(b),

 

5.00%, 3/15/27

    4,460       3,902,500  

6.00%, 6/15/25

    5,940       5,596,727  

Consolidated Communications, Inc.,

 

6.50%, 10/1/22

    9,435       8,842,388  

Frontier Communications Corp.,

 

10.50%, 9/15/22

    9,315       6,357,488  

GTT Communications, Inc. (a)(b),

 

7.875%, 12/31/24

    10,045       8,262,012  

Hughes Satellite Systems Corp.,

 

6.625%, 8/1/26

    9,080       9,568,050  

7.625%, 6/15/21

    7,440       7,979,400  

Intelsat Connect Finance S.A. (a)(b),

 

9.50%, 2/15/23

    3,195       2,843,550  

Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A.,

 

5.50%, 8/1/23

    10,370       9,514,475  

9.75%, 7/15/25 (a)(b)

    1,500       1,545,000  

Level 3 Financing, Inc.,

   

5.375%, 5/1/25

    8,420       8,714,700  

Sprint Capital Corp.,

   

6.875%, 11/15/28

    6,890       7,148,375  

Sprint Communications, Inc.,

 

11.50%, 11/15/21

    7,890       9,152,400  

Sprint Corp.,

   

7.125%, 6/15/24

    2,250       2,391,300  

7.625%, 3/1/26

    6,525       6,971,962  

T-Mobile USA, Inc.,

   

4.75%, 2/1/28

    3,190       3,298,620  

6.50%, 1/15/26

    3,760       4,074,186  

Windstream Services LLC
(cost—$6,531,968;
purchased 12/4/13-11/15/18) (a)(b)(c)(i),

 

6.375%, 8/1/23

    7,464       2,183,220  
   

 

 

 
      131,402,409  
   

 

 

 
Transportation—0.1%

 

 

XPO Logistics, Inc. (a)(b),

 

6.125%, 9/1/23

    2,705       2,809,819  

6.50%, 6/15/22

    3,184       3,255,640  
   

 

 

 
      6,065,459  
   

 

 

 
Total Corporate Bonds & Notes
(cost—$1,456,911,107)

 

    1,401,201,578  
   

 

 

 
   
Convertible Bonds & Notes—26.7%

 

Aerospace & Defense—0.2%

 

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.,

 

2.25%, 12/15/23

    1,255       2,235,140  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Arconic, Inc.,

   

1.625%, 10/15/19

  $ 4,715     $ 4,774,766  
   

 

 

 
      7,009,906  
   

 

 

 
Apparel & Textiles—0.0%

 

 

Iconix Brand Group, Inc.,

 

5.75%, 8/15/23

    4,185       1,088,100  
   

 

 

 
Auto Components—0.1%

 

 

Meritor, Inc.,

   

3.25%, 10/15/37

    6,405       6,691,774  
   

 

 

 
Auto Manufacturers—0.4%

 

 

Tesla, Inc.,

   

1.25%, 3/1/21

    9,155       8,697,250  

2.375%, 3/15/22

    7,520       7,427,060  
   

 

 

 
      16,124,310  
   

 

 

 
Banks—0.4%

 

 

BofA Finance LLC,

   

0.25%, 5/1/23

    1,000       1,004,375  

Deutsche Bank AG (f),

   

1.00%, 5/1/23

    17,460       17,201,932  
   

 

 

 
      18,206,307  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—2.1%

 

 

Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c),

 

2.00%, 8/15/19

    5,270       3,771,344  

Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.,

 

2.50%, 2/1/25

    1,785       1,667,859  

AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

 

3.25%, 6/1/22

    2,025       1,625,832  

BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.,

 

0.599%, 8/1/24

    4,860       5,057,438  

1.50%, 10/15/20

    6,830       7,675,213  

Exact Sciences Corp.,

 

0.375%, 3/15/27

    12,385       15,683,759  

Illumina, Inc. (a)(b),

 

zero coupon, 8/15/23

    21,955       25,444,732  

Insmed, Inc.,

   

1.75%, 1/15/25

    6,210       6,053,850  

Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

 

3.25%, 7/1/23

    8,585       7,697,447  

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

 

0.75%, 5/15/23

    10,535       9,121,853  

Medicines Co.,

   

2.50%, 1/15/22

    1,140       1,374,789  

2.75%, 7/15/23

    5,075       5,101,282  

3.50%, 1/15/24 (a)(b)

    130       212,921  

PTC Therapeutics, Inc.,

 

3.00%, 8/15/22

    460       510,408  

Radius Health, Inc.,

   

3.00%, 9/1/24

    3,660       3,321,078  

Verastem, Inc.,

   

5.00%, 11/1/48

    5,910       3,117,525  
   

 

 

 
      97,437,330  
   

 

 

 
Building Materials—0.0%

 

 

Patrick Industries, Inc.,

 

 

1.00%, 2/1/23

    1,015       925,374  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services—1.3%

 

 

Cardtronics, Inc.,

 

 

1.00%, 12/1/20

    3,000       2,919,766  

Chegg, Inc. (a)(b),

   

0.125%, 3/15/25

    12,850       12,960,657  

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (a)(b),

 

0.75%, 3/15/49

    6,875       8,361,170  

Huron Consulting Group, Inc.,

 

1.25%, 10/1/19

    7,480       7,445,247  

Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.,

 

2.00%, 10/1/23

    5,410       4,781,178  

2.875%, 7/15/19

    5,500       5,502,233  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Square, Inc.,

   

0.50%, 5/15/23

  $ 13,955     $ 16,722,927  
   

 

 

 
      58,693,178  
   

 

 

 
Computers—0.8%

 

 

Lumentum Holdings, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 3/15/24

    6,920       8,159,973  

Nutanix, Inc.,

 

zero coupon, 1/15/23

    6,245       5,846,439  

Pure Storage, Inc.,

 

0.125%, 4/15/23

    8,420       8,104,250  

Western Digital Corp. (a)(b),

 

1.50%, 2/1/24

    13,400       12,067,112  
   

 

 

 
      34,177,774  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Financial Services—0.6%

 

Encore Capital Group, Inc.,

 

2.875%, 3/15/21

    6,960       6,616,373  

3.00%, 7/1/20

    1,215       1,220,871  

JPMorgan Chase Financial Co. LLC (a)(b),

 

0.25%, 5/1/23

    10,090       10,247,404  

LendingTree, Inc.,

 

0.625%, 6/1/22

    3,580       7,475,431  
   

 

 

 
      25,560,079  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—0.2%

 

 

NRG Energy, Inc.,

 

2.75%, 6/1/48

    9,990       10,695,105  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—0.0%

 

SunPower Corp.,

 

4.00%, 1/15/23

    1,360       1,212,245  
   

 

 

 
Electronics—0.3%

 

 

Fortive Corp. (a)(b),

 

0.875%, 2/15/22

    6,360       6,592,383  

II-VI, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 9/1/22

    2,790       2,945,194  

OSI Systems, Inc.,

 

1.25%, 9/1/22

    2,145       2,547,597  

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (a)(b),

 

2.25%, 6/15/25

    1,355       1,249,988  
   

 

 

 
      13,335,162  
   

 

 

 
Energy-Alternate Sources—0.3%

 

NextEra Energy Partners L.P. (a)(b),

 

1.50%, 9/15/20

    4,800       4,860,686  

SunEdison, Inc. (a)(b)(c),

 

0.25%, 1/15/20

    9,565       215,213  

2.625%, 6/1/23

    11,270       253,575  

3.375%, 6/1/25

    4,565       102,712  

Tesla Energy Operations, Inc.,

 

1.625%, 11/1/19

    10,475       10,126,424  
   

 

 

 
      15,558,610  
   

 

 

 
Engineering & Construction—0.3%

 

Dycom Industries, Inc.,

 

0.75%, 9/15/21

    6,890       6,754,586  

KBR, Inc. (a)(b),

   

2.50%, 11/1/23

    5,270       6,135,340  
   

 

 

 
      12,889,926  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—0.3%

 

 

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.,

 

2.50%, 3/15/23

    8,605       10,206,895  

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp.,

 

1.50%, 9/15/22

    3,230       3,134,903  
   

 

 

 
      13,341,798  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—0.2%

 

Extra Space Storage L.P. (a)(b),

 

3.125%, 10/1/35

    6,130       7,286,933  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  
Healthcare-Products—0.8%

 

 

CONMED Corp. (a)(b),

 

2.625%, 2/1/24

  $ 3,120     $ 3,602,308  

Insulet Corp.,

 

1.375%, 11/15/24

    8,400       11,965,021  

NuVasive, Inc.,

 

2.25%, 3/15/21

    8,065       9,178,978  

Wright Medical Group, Inc.,

 

1.625%, 6/15/23

    10,863       11,969,668  
   

 

 

 
      36,715,975  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare-Services—0.4%

 

 

Anthem, Inc.,

 

2.75%, 10/15/42

    1,985       7,756,541  

Teladoc Health, Inc.,

 

1.375%, 5/15/25

    6,740       10,028,742  
   

 

 

 
      17,785,283  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—0.2%

 

 

AXA S.A. (a)(b),

 

7.25%, 5/15/21

    6,855       7,053,624  
   

 

 

 
Internet—4.0%

 

 

Boingo Wireless, Inc. (a)(b),

 

1.00%, 10/1/23

    2,460       2,111,897  

Booking Holdings, Inc.,

 

0.35%, 6/15/20

    5,325       7,679,904  

0.90%, 9/15/21

    12,035       13,796,895  

Ctrip.com International Ltd.,

 

1.00%, 7/1/20

    3,500       3,458,987  

1.25%, 9/15/22

    10,635       10,591,568  

Etsy, Inc.,

 

zero coupon, 3/1/23

    2,925       5,302,882  

FireEye, Inc.,

 

0.875%, 6/1/24

    7,485       7,333,400  

FireEye, Inc., Ser. B,

 

1.625%, 6/1/35

    4,650       4,394,250  

IAC FinanceCo 2, Inc. (a)(b),

 

0.875%, 6/15/26

    7,385       7,456,006  

IAC FinanceCo 3, Inc. (a)(b),

 

2.00%, 1/15/30

    6,810       7,024,256  

Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

1.00%, 6/30/47

    5,580       5,584,355  

MercadoLibre, Inc. (a)(b),

 

2.00%, 8/15/28

    4,765       7,352,068  

Okta, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 2/15/23

    2,830       7,339,920  

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (a)(b),

 

0.75%, 7/1/23

    17,035       18,032,792  

Q2 Holdings, Inc. (a)(b),

 

0.75%, 6/1/26

    4,395       4,748,973  

RingCentral, Inc.,

 

zero coupon, 3/15/23

    4,955       7,452,180  

Twitter, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 6/15/24

    11,865       11,614,169  

1.00%, 9/15/21

    9,690       9,298,459  

Wayfair, Inc. (a)(b),

 

1.125%, 11/1/24

    4,080       5,936,928  

Weibo Corp.,

 

1.25%, 11/15/22

    6,415       6,088,011  

Wix.com Ltd. (a)(b),

 

zero coupon, 7/1/23

    5,845       7,160,125  

Zendesk, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 3/15/23

    7,065       10,846,131  

Zillow Group, Inc.,

 

1.50%, 7/1/23

    4,865       4,800,338  

2.00%, 12/1/21

    6,000       6,804,826  
   

 

 

 
      182,209,320  
   

 

 

 
Investment Companies—0.1%

 

Prospect Capital Corp.,

 

6.375%, 3/1/25

    5,000       5,131,500  
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  
Lodging—0.4%    

Caesars Entertainment Corp.,

 

 

5.00%, 10/1/24

  $ 10,220     $ 17,518,876  
   

 

 

 
Machinery-Diversified—0.1%

 

Chart Industries, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

1.00%, 11/15/24

    1,800       2,568,572  
   

 

 

 
Media—1.5%    

DISH Network Corp.,

 

 

2.375%, 3/15/24

    13,010       12,066,976  

3.375%, 8/15/26

    13,620       13,275,197  

Liberty Interactive LLC (a)(b),

 

 

1.75%, 9/30/46

    8,700       10,908,375  

Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One,

 

1.00%, 1/30/23

    6,425       7,579,966  

Liberty Media Corp.,

 

 

1.375%, 10/15/23

    7,875       8,858,946  

2.125%, 3/31/48 (a)(b)

    7,620       7,434,263  

2.25%, 9/30/46

    2,580       1,391,736  

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.,

 

3.375%, 12/15/23

    1,510       4,515,844  
   

 

 

 
      66,031,303  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—1.1%

 

Bristow Group, Inc. (c),

 

 

4.50%, 6/1/23

    1,625       357,500  

Chesapeake Energy Corp.,

 

 

5.50%, 9/15/26

    14,705       11,773,977  

Ensco Jersey Finance Ltd.,

 

 

3.00%, 1/31/24

    9,245       7,232,615  

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.,

 

 

4.25%, 5/1/22

    2,510       2,531,473  

Nabors Industries, Inc.,

 

 

0.75%, 1/15/24

    8,145       5,850,696  

Oasis Petroleum, Inc.,

 

 

2.625%, 9/15/23

    9,190       8,430,552  

Oil States International, Inc.,

 

 

1.50%, 2/15/23

    2,450       2,191,299  

Transocean, Inc.,

 

 

0.50%, 1/30/23

    7,950       7,894,537  

Weatherford International Ltd.,

 

 

5.875%, 7/1/21

    6,780       3,508,650  
   

 

 

 
      49,771,299  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—1.9%

 

Clovis Oncology, Inc.,

 

 

1.25%, 5/1/25

    4,440       2,784,446  

2.50%, 9/15/21

    4,020       3,585,473  

Dermira, Inc.,

 

 

3.00%, 5/15/22

    3,065       2,652,078  

DexCom, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.75%, 12/1/23

    13,600       15,985,471  

Flexion Therapeutics, Inc.,

 

 

3.375%, 5/1/24

    2,670       2,331,244  

Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.,

 

 

2.625%, 3/15/24

    9,465       9,205,160  

Horizon Pharma Investment Ltd.,

 

 

2.50%, 3/15/22

    2,170       2,412,439  

Jazz Investments I Ltd.,

 

 

1.50%, 8/15/24

    6,195       6,125,975  

1.875%, 8/15/21

    9,950       10,163,219  

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.,

 

 

2.25%, 5/15/24

    6,250       8,231,230  

Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.,

 

 

1.50%, 11/15/24

    3,205       7,142,165  

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,

 

 

0.625%, 4/1/23

    6,355       6,233,307  

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Co. LLC, Ser. C,

 

0.25%, 2/1/26

    7,285       6,697,647  

Tilray, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

5.00%, 10/1/23

    2,975       2,413,469  
   

 

 

 
      85,963,323  
   

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  
Pipelines—0.2%    

Cheniere Energy, Inc.,

 

 

4.25%, 3/15/45

  $ 14,605     $ 11,510,200  
   

 

 

 
Retail—0.2%

 

 

RH (a)(b),

   

zero coupon, 6/15/23

    9,335       8,501,661  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors—3.3%

 

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,

 

 

2.125%, 9/1/26

    3,435       13,321,359  

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.,

 

1.375%, 1/1/20

    4,450       4,438,875  

Cree, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.875%, 9/1/23

    6,155       7,139,387  

Inphi Corp.,

 

 

0.75%, 9/1/21

    6,800       7,556,375  

1.125%, 12/1/20

    1,710       2,300,683  

Intel Corp.,

 

 

3.25%, 8/1/39

    3,825       9,007,340  

Microchip Technology, Inc.,

 

 

1.625%, 2/15/27

    29,480       34,804,088  

2.25%, 2/15/37

    2,660       3,139,066  

Micron Technology, Inc.,

 

 

2.125%, 2/15/33, Ser. F

    1,300       4,592,510  

3.125%, 5/1/32, Ser. D

    490       1,889,228  

Novellus Systems, Inc.,

 

 

2.625%, 5/15/41

    2,165       12,597,998  

NXP Semiconductors NV,

 

 

1.00%, 12/1/19

    10,050       10,615,113  

ON Semiconductor Corp.,

 

 

1.625%, 10/15/23

    11,715       14,301,780  

Silicon Laboratories, Inc.,

 

 

1.375%, 3/1/22

    565       704,279  

Synaptics, Inc.,

 

 

0.50%, 6/15/22

    7,195       6,444,022  

Teradyne, Inc.,

 

 

1.25%, 12/15/23

    5,275       8,570,917  

Veeco Instruments, Inc.,

 

 

2.70%, 1/15/23

    6,560       5,853,130  
   

 

 

 
      147,276,150  
   

 

 

 
Software—3.8%

 

 

Akamai Technologies, Inc.,

 

 

0.125%, 5/1/25

    12,435       13,346,512  

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.,

 

1.25%, 7/1/20

    6,585       6,602,352  

Atlassian, Inc.,

 

 

0.625%, 5/1/23

    9,725       16,556,813  

Avaya Holdings Corp.,

 

 

2.25%, 6/15/23

    5,740       5,023,137  

Coupa Software, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.125%, 6/15/25

    5,370       5,759,765  

DocuSign, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.50%, 9/15/23

    8,590       8,896,019  

Envestnet, Inc.,

 

 

1.75%, 6/1/23

    4,790       5,723,517  

Evolent Health, Inc.,

 

 

1.50%, 10/15/25 (a)(b)

    3,470       2,276,110  

2.00%, 12/1/21

    1,400       1,247,969  

Five9, Inc.,

 

 

0.125%, 5/1/23

    500       694,410  

Guidewire Software, Inc.,

 

 

1.25%, 3/15/25

    5,245       5,909,224  

Momo, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

1.25%, 7/1/25

    2,665       2,531,750  

MongoDB, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.75%, 6/15/24

    2,270       5,213,906  

New Relic, Inc.,

 

 

0.50%, 5/1/23

    7,155       7,669,434  

Nuance Communications, Inc.,

 

 

1.00%, 12/15/35

    5,560       5,246,270  
 

 

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     Principal
Amount
(000s)
    Value  

Pluralsight, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.375%, 3/1/24

  $ 7,740     $ 8,294,462  

RealPage, Inc.,

 

 

1.50%, 11/15/22

    2,965       4,452,853  

ServiceNow, Inc.,

 

 

zero coupon, 6/1/22

    7,290       15,132,709  

Splunk, Inc. (a)(b),

 

 

0.50%, 9/15/23

    8,880       9,796,930  

1.125%, 9/15/25

    9,235       10,370,076  

Twilio, Inc.,

 

 

0.25%, 6/1/23

    6,135       12,320,633  

Workday, Inc.,

 

0.25%, 10/1/22

    12,690       19,067,373  

Zynga, Inc. (a)(b),

 

0.25%, 6/1/24

    1,690       1,691,608  
   

 

 

 
      173,823,832  
   

 

 

 
Telecommunications—0.8%

 

CalAmp Corp. (a)(b),

 

2.00%, 8/1/25

    2,330       1,890,458  

Finisar Corp.,

 

0.50%, 12/15/36

    13,830       13,517,793  

GCI Liberty, Inc. (a)(b),

 

1.75%, 9/30/46

    1,000       1,173,933  

GDS Holdings Ltd.,

 

2.00%, 6/1/25

    1,750       1,729,770  

Infinera Corp.,

 

2.125%, 9/1/24

    4,090       2,799,094  

Viavi Solutions, Inc.,

 

1.75%, 6/1/23

    6,678       7,700,569  

Viavi Solutions, Inc.,

 

1.00%, 3/1/24

    3,600       4,239,000  

Vonage Holdings Corp. (a)(b),

 

1.75%, 6/1/24

    3,715       3,758,371  
   

 

 

 
      36,808,988  
   

 

 

 
Transportation—0.4%

 

 

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.,

 

1.875%, 6/1/24

    1,400       1,440,809  

2.25%, 6/1/22

    6,445       6,398,694  

Echo Global Logistics, Inc.,

 

2.50%, 5/1/20

    2,225       2,212,485  

Greenbrier Cos., Inc.,

 

2.875%, 2/1/24

    2,265       2,193,388  

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.,

 

1.50%, 9/1/19

    4,860       4,422,600  

Teekay Corp.,

 

5.00%, 1/15/23

    1,625       1,280,703  
   

 

 

 
      17,948,679  
   

 

 

 
Total Convertible Bonds & Notes
(cost—$1,253,913,970)

 

    1,206,852,496  
   

 

 

 
   
    Shares        
Convertible Preferred Stock—4.4%

 

Banks—0.9%

 

 

Bank of America Corp., Ser. L (e),

 

7.25%

    9,840       13,500,480  

Wells Fargo & Co., Ser. L (e),

 

7.50%

    21,405       29,200,701  
   

 

 

 
      42,701,181  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—0.3%

 

 

International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.,

 

6.00%, 9/15/21

    220,765       11,881,572  
   

 

 

 
Computers—0.2%

 

 

NCR Corp., Ser. A, PIK 5.50% (e),

 

5.50%

    9,125       10,777,966  
   

 

 

 
    

Shares

    Value  
Diversified Financial Services—0.1%

 

AMG Capital Trust II,

 

5.15%, 10/15/37

    72,690     $ 3,527,607  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—0.6%

 

 

CenterPoint Energy, Inc., Ser. B,

 

7.00%, 9/1/21

    41,735       2,095,932  

NextEra Energy, Inc.,

 

6.123%, 9/1/19

    140,720       9,136,949  

Sempra Energy, Ser. A,

 

6.00%, 1/15/21

    125,785       14,023,770  
   

 

 

 
      25,256,651  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—0.2%

 

Belden, Inc.,

 

6.75%, 7/15/19

    94,470       7,439,513  
   

 

 

 
Electronics—0.4%

 

 

Fortive Corp., Ser. A,

   

5.00%, 7/1/21

    15,285       15,758,632  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—0.3%

 

Crown Castle International Corp., Ser. A,

 

6.875%, 8/1/20

    12,755       15,268,065  
   

 

 

 
Hand/Machine Tools—0.3%

 

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.,

 

5.375%, 5/15/20

    126,835       12,980,294  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare-Products—0.9%

 

Avantor, Inc., Ser. A,

   

6.25%, 5/15/22

    145,055       9,592,487  

Becton Dickinson and Co., Ser. A,

 

6.125%, 5/1/20

    333,880       20,758,694  

Danaher Corp., Ser. A,

 

4.75%, 4/15/22

    11,080       12,239,522  
   

 

 

 
      42,590,703  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—0.2%

 

 

Assurant, Inc., Ser. D,

 

6.50%, 3/15/21

    81,455       9,078,974  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—0.0%

 

Nabors Industries Ltd.,

 

6.00%, 5/1/21

    53,040       1,192,339  
   

 

 

 
Total Convertible Preferred Stock
(cost—$196,154,974)

 

    198,453,497  
   

 

 

 
   
Preferred Stock (a)(d)(f)(k)(l)— 0.4%

 

Media—0.4%

 

 

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. A

    7,960       1,082,958  

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. B (h)

    171,344       17,134,400  

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. B (h)

    8,000       80  
   

 

 

 
Total Preferred Stock
(cost—$25,578,848)

 

    18,217,438  
   

 

 

 
   
Equity-Linked Security—0.0%

 

 
Coal—0.0%

 

 

Arch Coal, Inc., expires

 

 

10/5/23 (k)
(cost—$0)

    4,002       192,096  
   

 

 

 
   
    

Units

    Value  
Warrants (d)(f)(k)— 0.0%

 

 
Advertising—0.0%

 

 

Affinion Group Holdings, Inc.,

 

 

exercise price $67.12, expires 4/1/24 (cost—$1,422,155; purchased 4/1/19) (i)

    7,203     $ 69,799  
   

 

 

 
Media—0.0%

 

 

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. C, expires 11/30/21 (a)(l)

    43,500       4  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors—0.0%

 

 

GT Advanced Technologies, Inc., expires 10/1/17 (c)

    2,860,000       † 
   

 

 

 
Total Warrants
(cost—$1,422,155)

 

    69,803  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—4.7%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $211,946,831; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Notes, 0.25%, due 1/15/25, valued at $216,180,902 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$211,938,000)

    $211,938       211,938,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments, before options written
(cost—$4,973,993,114)—100.1%

 

    4,527,196,453  
   

 

 

 
Total Options Written—(0.0)%
(premiums received—$611,487) (k)(m)(n)

 

    (760,940
   

 

 

 
Total Investments, net of options written
(cost—$4,973,381,627)—100.1%

 

    4,526,435,513  
   

 

 

 
Other liabilities in excess of
other assets—(0.1)%

 

    (3,429,959
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%

 

    $4,523,005,554  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments:

† Actual amount rounds to less than $1.

(a) Private Placement—Restricted as to resale and may not have a readily available market. Securities with an aggregate value of $1,070,746,186, representing 23.7% of net assets.

(b) 144A—Exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, typically only to qualified institutional buyers. Securities with an aggregate value of $1,053,173,843, representing 23.3% of net assets.

(c) In default.

(d) Fair-Valued—Securities with an aggregate value of $24,626,505, representing 0.5% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(e) Perpetual maturity. The date shown, if any, is the next call date.

(f) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(g) All or partial amount segregated for the benefit of the counterparty as collateral for options written.

(h) Affiliated security.

(i) Restricted. The aggregate cost of such securities is $36,353,629. The aggregate value is $14,714,414, representing 0.3% of net assets.

(j) Variable or Floating Rate Security—Security with an interest rate that changes periodically. The interest rate disclosed reflects the rate in effect on June 30, 2019.

(k) Non-income producing.

(l) A member of the Fund’s portfolio management team is a member of the board of directors of LiveStyle, Inc. The Fund’s aggregate value of investments in LiveStyle, Inc. represents 0.4% of net assets.

(m) Exchange traded-Chicago Board Options Exchange.

(n) Exchange traded option contracts outstanding at June 30, 2019:

 

 

Options written contracts outstanding at June 30, 2019:                    
Description   Exercise
Price
    Expiration
Date
    Number of
Contracts
    Notional
Amount
    Market
Value
    Premiums
Received
    Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 

Call options:

             

Adobe, Inc.

    315.00 USD       7/19/19       (390   $ (39,000   $ (27,105   $ (30,633   $ 3,528  

Alphabet, Inc.

    1,250.00 USD       7/19/19       (140     (14,000     (3,150     (42,974     39,824  

Apple, Inc.

    210.00 USD       7/19/19       (570     (57,000     (60,420     (16,810     (43,610

Boeing Co.

    415.00 USD       7/19/19       (345     (34,500     (5,002     (13,268     8,266  

Broadcom, Inc.

    330.00 USD       7/19/19       (425     (42,500     (4,250     (25,717     21,467  

Deere & Co.

    165.00 USD       7/19/19       (560     (56,000     (245,000     (16,940     (228,060

DR Horton, Inc.

    48.00 USD       7/19/19       (505     (50,500     (2,525     (10,600     8,075  

Facebook, Inc.

    205.00 USD       7/19/19       (525     (52,500     (56,438     (45,161     (11,277

Fiserv, Inc.

    95.00 USD       7/19/19       (1,085     (108,500     (75,950     (36,847     (39,103

Home Depot, Inc.

    217.50 USD       7/19/19       (705     (70,500     (32,782     (25,034     (7,748

Honeywell International, Inc.

    185.00 USD       7/19/19       (660     (66,000     (20,130     (33,640     13,510  

Intuit, Inc.

    290.00 USD       7/19/19       (340     (34,000     (1,700     (11,546     9,846  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    120.00 USD       7/19/19       (690     (69,000     (5,865     (8,971     3,106  

Microsoft Corp.

    145.00 USD       7/19/19       (920     (92,000     (18,400     (44,583     26,183  

NIKE, Inc.

    90.00 USD       7/19/19       (835     (83,500     (10,020     (34,350     24,330  

S&P Global, Inc.

    230.00 USD       7/19/19       (217     (21,700     (62,388     (23,211     (39,177

Starbucks Corp.

    90.00 USD       7/19/19       (1,200     (120,000     (5,400     (21,553     16,153  

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

    130.00 USD       7/19/19       (420     (42,000     (5,250     (10,063     4,813  

Target Corp.

    92.50 USD       7/19/19       (960     (96,000     (12,960     (77,721     64,761  

Union Pacific Corp.

    180.00 USD       7/19/19       (525     (52,500     (29,400     (19,441     (9,959

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    195.00 USD       7/19/19       (300     (30,000     (41,250     (18,909     (22,341

Walt Disney Co.

    150.00 USD       7/19/19       (1,010     (101,000     (25,755     (31,381     5,626  

Workday, Inc.

    225.00 USD       7/19/19       (140     (14,000     (9,800     (12,134     2,334  
         

 

 

 
Total options written contracts

 

  $ (760,940   $ (611,487   $ (149,453
         

 

 

 

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

FRN—Floating Rate Note

PIK—Payment-in-Kind

 

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AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—99.5%

 

Aerospace & Defense—2.5%

 

 

HEICO Corp., Class A

    44,120       $4,560,684  

L3 Technologies, Inc.

    13,353       3,273,755  
   

 

 

 
      7,834,439  
   

 

 

 
Air Freight & Logistics—1.3%

 

 

XPO Logistics, Inc. (a)

    70,754       4,090,289  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—3.0%    

MGP Ingredients, Inc.

    49,725       3,297,265  

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

    96,426       6,154,871  
   

 

 

 
      9,452,136  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—2.8%    

Exact Sciences Corp. (a)

    44,740       5,281,110  

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

    18,245       3,340,477  
   

 

 

 
      8,621,587  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—1.4%    

E*TRADE Financial Corp.

    95,887       4,276,560  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—1.8%    

FMC Corp.

    68,340       5,668,803  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—3.9%

 

Clean Harbors, Inc. (a)

    76,225       5,419,598  

Waste Connections, Inc.

    69,937       6,684,578  
   

 

 

 
      12,104,176  
   

 

 

 
Containers & Packaging—2.0%

 

 

Crown Holdings, Inc. (a)

    103,900       6,348,290  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—2.2%

 

 

AMETEK, Inc.

    75,147       6,826,354  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—3.7%

 

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (a)

    49,740       4,467,150  

TE Connectivity Ltd.

    36,841       3,528,631  

Trimble, Inc. (a)

    81,447       3,674,074  
   

 

 

 
      11,669,855  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—5.4%    

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (a)

    78,355       8,895,643  

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., Class A

    35,525       2,565,260  

Zynga, Inc., Class A (a)

    894,411       5,482,740  
   

 

 

 
      16,943,643  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—2.3%    

Freshpet, Inc. (a)

    71,565       3,256,923  

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.

    60,110       3,808,570  
   

 

 

 
      7,065,493  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—10.6%

 

Cooper Cos., Inc.

    14,015       4,721,513  

DexCom, Inc. (a)

    63,217       9,472,435  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

    29,443       5,439,300  

Haemonetics Corp. (a)

    46,643       5,613,019  

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (a)

    28,195       7,762,929  
   

 

 

 
      33,009,196  
   

 

 

 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—3.3%

 

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (a)

    7,515       5,507,593  

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

    38,553       4,673,009  
   

 

 

 
      10,180,602  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Insurance—2.9%    

Arthur J Gallagher & Co.

    68,225     $ 5,975,828  

James River Group Holdings Ltd.

    66,195       3,104,545  
   

 

 

 
      9,080,373  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—1.2%

 

Etsy, Inc. (a)

    63,130       3,874,288  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—11.6%    

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

    69,770       4,619,472  

EPAM Systems, Inc. (a)

    44,738       7,744,148  

Twilio, Inc., Class A (a)

    36,910       5,032,679  

WEX, Inc. (a)

    31,058       6,463,170  

Wix.com Ltd. (a)

    28,254       4,014,893  

Worldpay, Inc., Class A (a)

    66,875       8,195,531  
   

 

 

 
      36,069,893  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—2.6%

 

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

    65,694       4,905,371  

Illumina, Inc. (a)

    8,975       3,304,146  
   

 

 

 
      8,209,517  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—2.1%    

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

    60,607       6,508,586  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—1.0%

 

Parsley Energy, Inc., Class A (a)

    157,433       2,992,801  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—3.3%    

Catalent, Inc. (a)

    117,652       6,377,915  

Elanco Animal Health, Inc. (a)

    114,510       3,870,438  
   

 

 

 
      10,248,353  
   

 

 

 
Professional Services—4.2%

 

 

Equifax, Inc.

    40,733       5,508,731  

Verisk Analytics, Inc.

    51,568       7,552,649  
   

 

 

 
      13,061,380  
   

 

 

 
Real Estate Management & Development—1.2%

 

CBRE Group, Inc., Class A (a)

    75,416       3,868,841  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—1.0%    

Kansas City Southern

    24,400       2,972,408  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—7.3%

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (a)

    199,910       6,071,267  

Cree, Inc. (a)

    51,195       2,876,135  

Entegris, Inc.

    65,706       2,452,148  

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

    25,179       3,418,804  

Xilinx, Inc.

    68,500       8,077,520  
   

 

 

 
      22,895,874  
   

 

 

 
Software—7.0%    

Ceridian HCM Holding, Inc. (a)

    72,570       3,643,014  

Splunk, Inc. (a)

    51,299       6,450,849  

Trade Desk, Inc., Class A (a)

    13,663       3,112,158  

Workday, Inc., Class A (a)

    42,624       8,762,642  
   

 

 

 
      21,968,663  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—2.9%    

Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc., Class A (a)

    101,600       4,257,040  

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

    14,124       4,899,474  
   

 

 

 
      9,156,514  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—3.6%

 

Lululemon Athletica, Inc. (a)

    38,805     $ 6,993,049  

VF Corp.

    48,230       4,212,891  
   

 

 

 
      11,205,940  
   

 

 

 
Trading Companies & Distributors—1.4%

 

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

    32,379       4,294,427  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$238,374,500)
      310,499,281  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—0.8%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $2,558,107; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Notes, 0.25%, due 1/15/25, valued at $2,611,364 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$2,558,000)

    $2,558       2,558,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$240,932,500)100.3%

 

    313,057,281  
   

 

 

 
Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.3)%       (889,858
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $312,167,423  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Non-income producing.

 

 

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AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—98.4%

 

 
Aerospace & Defense—4.8%

 

 

Curtiss-Wright Corp.

    84,177       $10,701,422  

Lockheed Martin Corp.

    75,565       27,470,900  

United Technologies Corp.

    210,605       27,420,771  
   

 

 

 
      65,593,093  
   

 

 

 
Automobiles—2.1%

 

 

General Motors Co.

    724,675       27,921,728  
   

 

 

 
Banks—13.8%

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

    961,810       27,892,490  

Citigroup, Inc.

    395,870       27,722,776  

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

    771,335       27,274,406  

Comerica, Inc.

    340,900       24,762,976  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    476,640       53,288,352  

U.S. Bancorp

    512,615       26,861,026  
   

 

 

 
      187,802,026  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—2.0%

 

 

Morgan Stanley

    606,245       26,559,593  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—1.9%

 

 

Celanese Corp.

    129,200       13,927,760  

Dow, Inc.

    242,706       11,967,833  
   

 

 

 
      25,895,593  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—1.9%

 

Cisco Systems, Inc.

    474,870       25,989,635  
   

 

 

 
Containers & Packaging—1.6%

 

 

Avery Dennison Corp.

    69,663       8,027,760  

International Paper Co.

    304,475       13,189,857  
   

 

 

 
      21,217,617  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Telecommunication Services—4.1%

 

AT&T, Inc.

    837,863       28,076,789  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

    471,450       26,933,939  
   

 

 

 
      55,010,728  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—1.9%

 

 

Exelon Corp.

    546,058       26,178,020  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—2.0%

 

 

Eaton Corp. PLC

    327,110       27,241,721  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.0%

 

 

Walt Disney Co.

    99,084       13,836,090  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—0.9%

 

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

    693,926       12,643,332  
   

 

 

 
Food & Staples Retailing—2.0%

 

 

Walmart, Inc.

    244,350       26,998,231  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—1.9%

 

 

Mondelez International, Inc., Class A

    486,300       26,211,570  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—2.0%

 

Medtronic PLC

    274,470       26,730,633  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—3.0%

 

Humana, Inc.

    52,026       13,802,498  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

    269,160       27,403,179  
   

 

 

 
      41,205,677  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Industrial Conglomerates—3.1%

 

General Electric Co.

    1,333,000     $ 13,996,500  

Honeywell International, Inc.

    156,570       27,335,556  
   

 

 

 
      41,332,056  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—7.0%

 

 

Allstate Corp.

    267,975       27,250,378  

MetLife, Inc.

    552,265       27,431,002  

Progressive Corp.

    165,288       13,211,470  

Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.

    175,125       27,324,754  
   

 

 

 
      95,217,604  
   

 

 

 
Media—2.9%

 

 

Comcast Corp., Class A

    935,000       39,531,800  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—0.4%

 

 

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.

    57,590       5,449,166  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—2.0%

 

 

Target Corp.

    311,414       26,971,566  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Utilities—2.0%

 

 

Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.

    453,330       26,664,871  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—11.9%

 

Chevron Corp.

    108,795       13,538,450  

ConocoPhillips

    421,065       25,684,965  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A ADR

    614,895       40,011,218  

TC Energy Corp.

    543,432       26,910,752  

Total S.A. ADR

    482,700       26,929,833  

Valero Energy Corp.

    330,500       28,294,105  
   

 

 

 
      161,369,323  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—8.6%

 

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

    204,738       9,284,868  

Johnson & Johnson

    283,146       39,436,575  

Merck & Co., Inc.

    314,649       26,383,319  

Pfizer, Inc.

    620,185       26,866,414  

Roche Holding AG ADR

    436,777       15,330,873  
   

 

 

 
      117,302,049  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—1.9%

 

 

Kansas City Southern

    216,350       26,355,757  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—4.8%

 

Broadcom, Inc.

    90,700       26,108,902  

Intel Corp.

    514,544       24,631,221  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

    117,362       13,872,189  
   

 

 

 
      64,612,312  
   

 

 

 
Software—2.0%

 

 

Oracle Corp.

    479,069       27,292,561  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—1.0%

 

 

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

    140,167       14,144,252  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—2.0%

 

Apple, Inc.

    135,140       26,746,909  
   

 

 

 
Tobacco—1.9%

 

 

Philip Morris International, Inc.

    320,000       25,129,600  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$1,159,269,262)

 

    1,335,155,113  
   

 

 

 
   
    

Principal
Amount
(000s)

    Value  
Repurchase Agreements—1.6%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $21,560,898; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $21,997,103 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$21,560,000)

    $21,560     $ 21,560,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$1,180,829,262)100.0%

 

    1,356,715,113  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less liabilities—0.0%       528,101  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $1,357,243,214  
   

 

 

 

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

 

 

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AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—99.1%

 

Australia—2.1%

 

 

Macquarie Group Ltd.

    21,942       $1,935,416  

Westpac Banking Corp.

    93,861       1,870,673  
   

 

 

 
      3,806,089  
   

 

 

 
Canada—12.5%

 

 

Bank of Montreal

    24,300       1,833,435  

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

    14,441       3,397,101  

Enerplus Corp.

    185,100       1,393,803  

Magna International, Inc.

    77,140       3,833,858  

Manulife Financial Corp.

    104,468       1,899,228  

Methanex Corp.

    37,619       1,710,160  

TC Energy Corp.

    66,660       3,301,003  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

    87,840       5,126,342  
   

 

 

 
      22,494,930  
   

 

 

 
China—11.9%

 

 

Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd., Class H

    589,500       3,688,686  

China Construction Bank Corp., Class H

    2,249,100       1,938,732  

China Mobile Ltd.

    381,000       3,468,495  

China Railway Signal & Communication Corp., Ltd., Class H (a)

    5,196,000       3,775,774  

China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd., Class H

    784,000       1,642,140  

Hengan International Group Co., Ltd.

    438,000       3,225,088  

Longfor Group Holdings Ltd.

    470,500       1,773,977  

Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd., Class A

    151,817       1,963,097  
   

 

 

 
      21,475,989  
   

 

 

 
France—6.2%

 

 

Capgemini SE

    29,479       3,665,215  

Danone S.A.

    44,407       3,760,038  

Euronext NV (a)

    23,295       1,762,479  

Kering S.A.

    3,345       1,974,296  
   

 

 

 
      11,162,028  
   

 

 

 
Germany—4.2%

 

 

BASF SE

    25,454       1,851,759  

Deutsche Telekom AG

    104,813       1,815,847  

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG in Muenchen

    7,365       1,846,093  

SAP SE

    14,486       1,985,913  
   

 

 

 
      7,499,612  
   

 

 

 
Hong Kong—6.7%

 

 

AIA Group Ltd.

    172,200       1,859,570  

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

    399,600       1,573,284  

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.

    362,500       3,575,606  

CLP Holdings Ltd.

    156,000       1,719,087  

Sands China Ltd.

    364,000       1,738,853  

Xinyi Glass Holdings Ltd.

    1,492,000       1,567,277  
   

 

 

 
      12,033,677  
   

 

 

 
India—0.7%

 

 

Reliance Industries Ltd. GDR (a)

    33,792       1,221,581  
   

 

 

 
Ireland—3.7%

 

 

Glanbia PLC

    193,471       3,145,693  

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC

    114,796       3,478,599  
   

 

 

 
      6,624,292  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Italy—1.1%

 

 

Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale SpA

    300,886     $ 1,917,131  
   

 

 

 
Japan—13.7%

 

 

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

    39,000       1,755,728  

Astellas Pharma, Inc.

    135,000       1,923,853  

Hitachi Ltd.

    48,340       1,778,560  

Japan Exchange Group, Inc.

    224,500       3,575,567  

Mitsubishi Corp.

    131,400       3,472,293  

Shionogi & Co., Ltd.

    60,100       3,472,748  

Sony Corp.

    97,600       5,128,875  

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.

    72,200       3,622,658  
   

 

 

 
      24,730,282  
   

 

 

 
Korea (Republic of)—2.0%

 

 

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    86,483       3,521,615  
   

 

 

 
Mexico—1.0%

 

 

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B de C.V., Class B

    176,000       1,832,830  
   

 

 

 
Netherlands—2.9%

 

 

ING Groep NV

    139,403       1,614,808  

Unilever NV

    59,491       3,614,562  
   

 

 

 
      5,229,370  
   

 

 

 
Peru—1.0%

 

 

Southern Copper Corp.

    45,968       1,785,857  
   

 

 

 
Russian Federation—0.9%

 

 

Lukoil PJSC ADR

    19,970       1,677,879  
   

 

 

 
Singapore—1.9%

 

 

DBS Group Holdings Ltd.

    182,500       3,505,835  
   

 

 

 
South Africa—1.0%

 

 

Naspers Ltd., Class N

    7,323       1,772,533  
   

 

 

 
Spain—2.0%

 

 

Banco Santander S.A.

    778,171       3,606,552  
   

 

 

 
Sweden—1.1%

 

 

Sandvik AB

    106,259       1,952,621  
   

 

 

 
Switzerland—3.2%

 

 

Roche Holding AG

    20,414       5,740,164  
   

 

 

 
Taiwan—0.9%

 

 

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR

    41,686       1,632,841  
   

 

 

 
United Kingdom—16.5%

 

 

3i Group PLC

    117,910       1,668,182  

BAE Systems PLC ADR

    152,868       3,832,401  

Carnival PLC

    69,664       3,065,797  

Compass Group PLC

    73,048       1,751,089  

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

    183,804       3,684,319  

Imperial Brands PLC

    133,449       3,131,401  

Legal & General Group PLC

    1,015,080       3,477,675  

Rio Tinto PLC

    29,354       1,816,808  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A ADR

    110,540       7,192,838  
   

 

 

 
      29,620,510  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
United States—1.9%

 

 

Broadcom, Inc.

    5,700     $ 1,640,802  

Constellation Brands, Inc., Class A

    8,701       1,713,575  
   

 

 

 
      3,354,377  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$171,746,521)

 

    178,198,595  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—0.7%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $1,224,051; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $1,251,309 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$1,224,000)

    $1,224       1,224,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$172,970,521) (b)—99.8%

 

    179,422,595  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less liabilities—0.2%       382,974  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $179,805,569  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) 144A—Exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, typically only to qualified institutional buyers. Securities with an aggregate value of $6,759,834, representing 3.8% of net assets.

(b) Securities with an aggregate value of $133,173,061, representing 74.1% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

GDR—Global Depositary Receipt

 

 

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The industry classification of portfolio holdings and other assets less liabilities shown as a percentage of net assets were as follows:

 

Banks

    11.7%  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    9.1%  

Pharmaceuticals

    8.3%  

Insurance

    8.2%  

Capital Markets

    5.0%  

Food Products

    3.8%  

Personal Products

    3.8%  

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure

    3.7%  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

    3.1%  

Auto Components

    3.0%  

Household Durables

    2.9%  

Aerospace & Defense

    2.1%  

Construction Materials

    2.1%  

IT Services

    2.0%  

Electric Utilities

    2.0%  

Metals & Mining

    2.0%  

Industrial Conglomerates

    2.0%  

Chemicals

    2.0%  

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

    2.0%  

Containers & Packaging

    1.9%  

Trading Companies & Distributors

    1.9%  

Beverages

    1.9%  

Wireless Telecommunication Services

    1.9%  

Road & Rail

    1.9%  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

    1.8%  

Tobacco

    1.7%  

Software

    1.1%  

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods

    1.1%  

Machinery

    1.1%  

Transportation Infrastructure

    1.0%  

Diversified Telecommunication Services

    1.0%  

Real Estate Management & Development

    1.0%  

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail

    1.0%  

Repurchase Agreements

    0.7%  

Other assets less liabilities

    0.2%  
 

 

 

 
    100.0%  
 

 

 

 

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—99.7%

 

Aerospace & Defense—3.6%

 

Curtiss-Wright Corp.

    26,768       $3,403,016  

Lockheed Martin Corp.

    10,800       3,926,232  

United Technologies Corp.

    40,184       5,231,957  
   

 

 

 
      12,561,205  
   

 

 

 
Banks—13.8%

 

 

Bank of America Corp.

    273,667       7,936,343  

Citigroup, Inc.

    105,900       7,416,177  

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

    98,465       3,481,722  

Comerica, Inc.

    85,540       6,213,626  

First Republic Bank

    17,950       1,752,817  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    123,200       13,773,760  

U.S. Bancorp

    136,100       7,131,640  
   

 

 

 
      47,706,085  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—1.1%

 

 

PepsiCo, Inc.

    28,700       3,763,431  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—2.7%

 

 

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

    17,960       2,607,074  

Morgan Stanley

    152,400       6,676,644  
   

 

 

 
      9,283,718  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—3.0%

 

 

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

    16,122       3,649,537  

Celanese Corp.

    34,700       3,740,660  

Dow, Inc. (a)

    58,346       2,877,041  
   

 

 

 
      10,267,238  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—0.8%

 

IAA, Inc. (a)

    41,687       1,616,622  

KAR Auction Services, Inc.

    41,687       1,042,175  
   

 

 

 
      2,658,797  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—2.0%

 

Cisco Systems, Inc.

    128,400       7,027,332  
   

 

 

 
Construction & Engineering—1.1%

 

EMCOR Group, Inc.

    41,968       3,697,381  
   

 

 

 
Consumer Finance—2.1%

 

 

American Express Co.

    29,948       3,696,781  

Discover Financial Services

    45,000       3,491,550  
   

 

 

 
      7,188,331  
   

 

 

 
Containers & Packaging—1.3%

 

 

Avery Dennison Corp.

    8,873       1,022,499  

Packaging Corp. of America

    35,326       3,367,274  
   

 

 

 
      4,389,773  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Telecommunication Services—3.0%

 

AT&T, Inc.

    108,948       3,650,848  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

    115,771       6,613,997  
   

 

 

 
      10,264,845  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—2.0%

 

 

Entergy Corp.

    34,265       3,526,896  

Exelon Corp.

    68,992       3,307,477  
   

 

 

 
      6,834,373  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—1.0%

 

 

Eaton Corp. PLC

    43,400       3,614,352  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.3%

 

 

Walt Disney Co.

    31,600       4,412,624  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—1.5%

 

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

    184,248       3,356,998  

Prologis, Inc.

    22,436       1,797,124  
   

 

 

 
      5,154,122  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Food & Staples Retailing—2.2%

 

 

Sysco Corp.

    53,500     $ 3,783,520  

Walmart, Inc.

    34,400       3,800,856  
   

 

 

 
      7,584,376  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—1.1%

 

 

Mondelez International, Inc., Class A

    70,600       3,805,340  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—3.1%

 

Abbott Laboratories

    20,807       1,749,869  

Baxter International, Inc.

    25,806       2,113,511  

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.

    16,845       1,762,324  

Medtronic PLC

    53,600       5,220,104  
   

 

 

 
      10,845,808  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—2.3%

 

HCA Healthcare, Inc.

    21,000       2,838,570  

Humana, Inc.

    6,626       1,757,878  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

    33,400       3,400,454  
   

 

 

 
      7,996,902  
   

 

 

 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—0.9%

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

    26,900       3,260,549  
   

 

 

 
Household Products—1.1%

 

 

Procter & Gamble Co.

    34,200       3,750,030  
   

 

 

 
Industrial Conglomerates—2.0%

 

 

General Electric Co.

    338,800       3,557,400  

Honeywell International, Inc.

    19,770       3,451,644  
   

 

 

 
      7,009,044  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—5.2%

 

 

Aflac, Inc.

    70,800       3,880,548  

Allstate Corp.

    36,900       3,752,361  

Progressive Corp.

    82,988       6,633,231  

Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.

    22,600       3,526,278  
   

 

 

 
      17,792,418  
   

 

 

 
Machinery—1.0%

 

 

Ingersoll-Rand PLC

    27,600       3,496,092  

Wabtec Corp.

    852       61,139  
   

 

 

 
      3,557,231  
   

 

 

 
Media—2.0%

 

 

Comcast Corp., Class A

    162,600       6,874,728  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—1.1%

 

 

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.

    38,611       3,653,373  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—1.1%

 

 

Target Corp.

    42,564       3,686,468  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Utilities—1.9%

 

 

Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.

    110,400       6,493,728  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—11.1%

 

Chevron Corp.

    71,500       8,897,460  

ConocoPhillips

    111,800       6,819,800  

Kinder Morgan, Inc.

    180,722       3,773,475  

Marathon Oil Corp.

    217,592       3,091,982  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Class A ADR

    57,308       3,729,032  

TC Energy Corp.

    70,947       3,513,296  

Total S.A. ADR

    60,800       3,392,032  

Valero Energy Corp.

    61,428       5,258,851  
   

 

 

 
      38,475,928  
   

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals—8.1%

 

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

    52,297       2,371,669  

Johnson & Johnson

    60,109       8,371,982  
 

 

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     Shares     Value  

Merck & Co., Inc.

    80,659     $ 6,763,257  

Pfizer, Inc.

    154,000       6,671,280  

Roche Holding AG ADR

    111,000       3,896,100  
   

 

 

 
      28,074,288  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—1.9%

 

 

Kansas City Southern

    28,100       3,423,142  

Union Pacific Corp.

    19,100       3,230,001  
   

 

 

 
      6,653,143  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—4.4%

 

Broadcom, Inc.

    17,346       4,993,220  

Intel Corp.

    139,000       6,653,930  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

    29,717       3,512,549  
   

 

 

 
      15,159,699  
   

 

 

 
Software—2.6%

 

 

Microsoft Corp.

    38,320       5,133,347  

Oracle Corp.

    68,500       3,902,445  
   

 

 

 
      9,035,792  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—2.6%

 

 

Best Buy Co., Inc.

    27,585       1,923,502  

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

    70,285       7,092,459  
   

 

 

 
      9,015,961  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—0.9%

 

Apple, Inc.

    15,500       3,067,760  
   

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.0%

 

Columbia Sportswear Co.

    35,018       3,507,403  
   

 

 

 
Tobacco—1.8%

 

 

Philip Morris International, Inc.

    79,700       6,258,841  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments (cost—$326,345,995)—99.7%

 

    344,382,417  
   

 

 

 
Other assets less liabilities—0.3%       1,148,318  
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $345,530,735  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—99.4%

 

Aerospace & Defense—4.5%

 

Curtiss-Wright Corp.

    58,713       $7,464,184  

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.

    57,340       12,886,592  

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

    65,130       12,318,037  

Northrop Grumman Corp.

    43,607       14,089,858  

Raytheon Co.

    67,554       11,746,289  
   

 

 

 
      58,504,960  
   

 

 

 
Air Freight & Logistics—0.9%

 

 

FedEx Corp.

    71,340       11,713,315  
   

 

 

 
Auto Components—1.5%

 

 

Gentex Corp.

    474,816       11,685,222  

Lear Corp.

    57,660       8,030,308  
   

 

 

 
      19,715,530  
   

 

 

 
Banks—8.5%

 

 

Chemical Financial Corp.

    312,988       12,866,937  

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

    358,000       12,658,880  

Comerica, Inc.

    182,960       13,290,214  

East West Bancorp, Inc.

    290,660       13,594,168  

Fifth Third Bancorp

    479,210       13,369,959  

First Republic Bank

    135,370       13,218,880  

KeyCorp

    378,590       6,719,973  

M&T Bank Corp.

    78,857       13,411,210  

Regions Financial Corp.

    832,620       12,439,343  
   

 

 

 
      111,569,564  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—1.5%

 

 

Coca-Cola European Partners PLC

    224,890       12,706,285  

Constellation Brands, Inc., Class A

    33,404       6,578,584  
   

 

 

 
      19,284,869  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—1.0%

 

 

Grifols S.A. ADR

    597,033       12,597,396  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—4.1%

 

 

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

    45,362       6,584,748  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc.

    120,061       12,441,922  

Raymond James Financial, Inc.

    141,340       11,950,297  

State Street Corp.

    198,390       11,121,743  

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.

    240,725       12,016,992  
   

 

 

 
      54,115,702  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—1.9%

 

 

Celanese Corp.

    120,030       12,939,234  

LyondellBasell Industries NV, Class A

    144,540       12,449,230  
   

 

 

 
      25,388,464  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—1.7%

 

IAA, Inc. (a)

    226,630       8,788,711  

KAR Auction Services, Inc.

    226,630       5,665,750  

Tetra Tech, Inc.

    93,125       7,314,969  
   

 

 

 
      21,769,430  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—1.1%

 

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

    85,270       14,217,067  
   

 

 

 
Construction & Engineering—1.2%

 

EMCOR Group, Inc.

    185,603       16,351,624  
   

 

 

 
Consumer Finance—0.9%

 

 

Discover Financial Services

    156,490       12,142,059  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Containers & Packaging—2.0%

 

 

Avery Dennison Corp.

    122,398     $ 14,159,001  

Packaging Corp. of America

    130,280       12,418,289  
   

 

 

 
      26,577,290  
   

 

 

 
Distributors—0.7%

 

 

Genuine Parts Co.

    84,810       8,784,620  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—4.0%

 

 

Edison International

    100,100       6,747,741  

Evergy, Inc.

    218,158       13,122,204  

Eversource Energy

    140,680       10,657,917  

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

    138,670       13,047,460  

Southern Co.

    174,494       9,646,028  
   

 

 

 
      53,221,350  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—2.0%

 

 

AMETEK, Inc.

    148,225       13,464,759  

EnerSys

    96,900       6,637,650  

Hubbell, Inc.

    52,040       6,786,016  
   

 

 

 
      26,888,425  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—0.8%

 

Amphenol Corp., Class A

    116,520       11,178,929  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—0.5%

 

 

Activision Blizzard, Inc.

    133,456       6,299,123  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—7.3%

 

Boston Properties, Inc.

    88,793       11,454,297  

CoreSite Realty Corp.

    114,740       13,214,606  

Equinix, Inc.

    25,200       12,708,108  

Extra Space Storage, Inc.

    58,824       6,241,226  

Lamar Advertising Co., Class A

    104,070       8,399,490  

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

    107,130       12,615,629  

National Health Investors, Inc.

    157,240       12,269,437  

Prologis, Inc.

    166,310       13,321,431  

Public Storage

    26,390       6,285,306  
   

 

 

 
      96,509,530  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—4.4%

 

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

    271,500       11,077,200  

Hershey Co.

    93,010       12,466,130  

Ingredion, Inc.

    114,430       9,439,331  

Kellogg Co.

    214,649       11,498,747  

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.

    204,248       12,941,153  
   

 

 

 
      57,422,561  
   

 

 

 
Gas Utilities—1.8%

 

 

Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (a)

    144,755       12,972,943  

UGI Corp.

    204,800       10,938,368  
   

 

 

 
      23,911,311  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—1.0%

 

STERIS PLC

    85,890       12,787,303  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—3.2%

 

Encompass Health Corp.

    202,400       12,824,064  

Humana, Inc.

    22,234       5,898,680  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

    130,281       13,263,909  

Universal Health Services, Inc., Class B

    72,850       9,498,911  
   

 

 

 
      41,485,564  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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     Shares     Value  
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—3.2%

 

Aramark

    202,471     $ 7,301,104  

Cedar Fair L.P.

    278,220       13,268,312  

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

    95,400       11,563,434  

Yum China Holdings, Inc.

    219,919       10,160,258  
   

 

 

 
      42,293,108  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—0.5%

 

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

    202,054       6,388,947  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—7.4%

 

 

Allstate Corp.

    127,720       12,987,847  

American Financial Group, Inc.

    124,180       12,724,725  

Aon PLC

    38,840       7,495,343  

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.

    103,257       13,247,873  

Lincoln National Corp.

    191,800       12,361,510  

Progressive Corp.

    154,450       12,345,188  

Prudential Financial, Inc.

    124,990       12,623,990  

Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.

    84,063       13,116,350  
   

 

 

 
      96,902,826  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—0.9%

 

eBay, Inc.

    304,678       12,034,781  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—4.2%

 

 

Amdocs Ltd.

    234,164       14,539,243  

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

    72,599       9,269,440  

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

    136,760       16,777,717  

MAXIMUS, Inc.

    103,580       7,513,693  

Science Applications International Corp.

    84,943       7,352,666  
   

 

 

 
      55,452,759  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—2.1%

 

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

    183,681       13,715,461  

PerkinElmer, Inc.

    143,236       13,799,356  
   

 

 

 
      27,514,817  
   

 

 

 
Machinery—3.4%

 

 

Altra Industrial Motion Corp.

    342,950       12,305,046  

Crane Co.

    154,280       12,873,123  

PACCAR, Inc.

    179,430       12,857,954  

Toro Co.

    97,713       6,537,000  
   

 

 

 
      44,573,123  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—1.9%

 

 

Nucor Corp.

    249,490       13,746,899  

Southern Copper Corp.

    274,221       10,653,486  
   

 

 

 
      24,400,385  
   

 

 

 
Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—0.5%

 

Annaly Capital Management, Inc.

    704,337       6,430,597  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—0.4%

 

 

Target Corp.

    60,735       5,260,258  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Utilities—2.1%

 

 

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

    327,601       9,379,217  

Dominion Energy, Inc.

    153,850       11,895,682  

Sempra Energy

    51,100       7,023,184  
   

 

 

 
      28,298,083  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—6.4%

 

Concho Resources, Inc.

    61,849       6,381,580  

ConocoPhillips

    200,715       12,243,615  

Devon Energy Corp.

    205,970       5,874,264  

 

     Shares     Value  

Diamondback Energy, Inc.

    57,800     $ 6,298,466  

EOG Resources, Inc.

    70,490       6,566,849  

Magellan Midstream Partners L.P.

    221,840       14,197,760  

Marathon Oil Corp.

    481,330       6,839,699  

TC Energy Corp.

    273,790       13,558,081  

Valero Energy Corp.

    138,990       11,898,934  
   

 

 

 
      83,859,248  
   

 

 

 
Professional Services—0.8%

 

 

TransUnion

    140,903       10,357,780  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—3.0%

 

 

JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

    135,330       12,370,515  

Kansas City Southern

    108,060       13,163,869  

Norfolk Southern Corp.

    66,650       13,285,345  
   

 

 

 
      38,819,729  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—2.0%

 

Applied Materials, Inc.

    248,520       11,161,033  

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

    50,700       6,884,046  

NXP Semiconductors NV

    80,669       7,874,101  
   

 

 

 
      25,919,180  
   

 

 

 
Software—1.0%

 

 

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.

    228,044       13,137,615  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—1.6%

 

 

Best Buy Co., Inc.

    117,152       8,169,009  

Tractor Supply Co.

    118,990       12,946,112  
   

 

 

 
      21,115,121  
   

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.5%

 

Columbia Sportswear Co.

    132,175       13,238,648  

Tapestry, Inc.

    213,676       6,779,939  
   

 

 

 
      20,018,587  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock (cost—$1,148,600,168)       1,305,212,930  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—1.6%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $20,909,871; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $21,333,298 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$20,909,000)

    $20,909       20,909,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments (cost—$1,169,509,168)—101.0%

 

    1,326,121,930  
   

 

 

 
Liabilities in excess of other assets—(1.0)%       (13,320,770
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $1,312,801,160  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—100.7%

 

Aerospace & Defense—2.4%

 

CAE, Inc.

    394,360       $10,592,509  

Curtiss-Wright Corp.

    115,330       14,661,903  
   

 

 

 
      25,254,412  
   

 

 

 
Auto Components—1.1%

 

 

Gentex Corp.

    469,150       11,545,781  
   

 

 

 
Banks—21.6%

 

 

Associated Banc-Corp

    554,900       11,730,586  

Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp.

    343,780       12,145,747  

BancFirst Corp.

    97,940       5,451,340  

Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc.

    215,764       6,772,832  

CenterState Bank Corp.

    528,753       12,177,182  

East West Bancorp, Inc.

    237,630       11,113,955  

Enterprise Financial Services Corp.

    287,550       11,962,080  

First Hawaiian, Inc.

    412,520       10,671,892  

First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc., Class A

    306,608       12,144,743  

FNB Corp.

    1,157,525       13,624,069  

Great Western Bancorp, Inc.

    375,175       13,401,251  

Heritage Commerce Corp.

    522,460       6,400,135  

IBERIABANK Corp.

    165,488       12,552,265  

Renasant Corp.

    357,040       12,832,018  

Simmons First National Corp., Class A

    482,500       11,222,950  

South State Corp.

    169,530       12,489,275  

TCF Financial Corp.

    601,390       12,502,898  

Towne Bank

    59,810       1,631,617  

Umpqua Holdings Corp.

    666,330       11,054,415  

United Community Banks, Inc.

    448,190       12,800,307  

Wintrust Financial Corp.

    167,620       12,263,079  
   

 

 

 
      226,944,636  
   

 

 

 
Building Products—1.0%

 

 

Universal Forest Products, Inc.

    278,702       10,607,398  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—2.9%

 

 

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.

    215,142       6,394,020  

Houlihan Lokey, Inc.

    275,220       12,255,547  

LPL Financial Holdings, Inc.

    150,200       12,251,814  
   

 

 

 
      30,901,381  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—2.8%

 

 

Cabot Corp.

    276,140       13,174,639  

Innophos Holdings, Inc.

    117,608       3,423,569  

Rentech Nitrogen Partners L.P. (a)(b)(c)

    555,768       56  

Stepan Co.

    135,428       12,447,187  
   

 

 

 
      29,045,451  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—4.1%

 

Ennis, Inc.

    438,021       8,988,191  

Interface, Inc.

    582,055       8,922,903  

McGrath RentCorp

    194,690       12,099,984  

Tetra Tech, Inc.

    167,104       13,126,019  
   

 

 

 
      43,137,097  
   

 

 

 
Construction & Engineering—2.6%

 

Comfort Systems USA, Inc.

    247,217       12,605,595  

EMCOR Group, Inc.

    161,839       14,258,016  
   

 

 

 
      26,863,611  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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     Shares     Value  
Containers & Packaging—1.3%

 

 

Silgan Holdings, Inc.

    444,646     $ 13,606,168  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—2.5%

 

 

EnerSys

    117,191       8,027,584  

Hubbell, Inc.

    54,250       7,074,200  

Regal Beloit Corp.

    129,210       10,557,749  
   

 

 

 
      25,659,533  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—5.7%

 

Dolby Laboratories, Inc., Class A

    188,350       12,167,410  

FLIR Systems, Inc.

    244,350       13,219,335  

Methode Electronics, Inc.

    471,102       13,459,384  

SYNNEX Corp.

    112,830       11,102,472  

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

    610,690       10,088,599  
   

 

 

 
      60,037,200  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—8.6%

 

American Assets Trust, Inc.

    117,299       5,527,129  

CoreSite Realty Corp.

    115,720       13,327,473  

CyrusOne, Inc.

    225,464       13,013,782  

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.

    200,075       7,350,756  

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.

    331,959       11,044,276  

Life Storage, Inc.

    137,330       13,057,336  

Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp.

    976,368       13,229,786  

National Health Investors, Inc.

    169,780       13,247,933  
   

 

 

 
      89,798,471  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—2.1%

 

 

Ingredion, Inc.

    133,000       10,971,170  

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.

    171,227       10,848,943  
   

 

 

 
      21,820,113  
   

 

 

 
Gas Utilities—2.4%

 

 

National Fuel Gas Co.

    212,900       11,230,475  

Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (c)

    153,510       13,757,566  
   

 

 

 
      24,988,041  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—1.1%

 

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.

    112,760       11,796,951  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—1.2%

 

Encompass Health Corp.

    198,319       12,565,492  
   

 

 

 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—2.1%

 

Cedar Fair L.P.

    224,130       10,688,760  

Ruth’s Hospitality Group, Inc.

    497,975       11,309,012  
   

 

 

 
      21,997,772  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—1.9%

 

 

La-Z-Boy, Inc.

    260,310       7,981,105  

MDC Holdings, Inc.

    364,761       11,956,865  
   

 

 

 
      19,937,970  
   

 

 

 
Household Products—0.6%

 

 

WD-40 Co.

    39,277       6,246,614  
   

 

 

 
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders—1.0%

 

Capital Power Corp.

    457,951       10,543,486  
   

 

 

 
Insurance—4.6%

 

 

American Financial Group, Inc.

    119,130       12,207,251  

CNO Financial Group, Inc.

    737,800       12,306,504  
     Shares     Value  

First American Financial Corp.

    249,340     $ 13,389,558  

Old Republic International Corp.

    475,120       10,633,186  
   

 

 

 
      48,536,499  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—3.0%

 

 

MAXIMUS, Inc.

    170,493       12,367,562  

Perspecta, Inc.

    301,694       7,062,656  

Science Applications International Corp.

    142,251       12,313,247  
   

 

 

 
      31,743,465  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—1.2%

 

Bruker Corp.

    258,450       12,909,577  
   

 

 

 
Machinery—3.3%

 

 

Crane Co.

    133,890       11,171,781  

ITT, Inc.

    194,835       12,757,796  

Toro Co.

    163,912       10,965,713  
   

 

 

 
      34,895,290  
   

 

 

 
Media—1.1%

 

 

Meredith Corp.

    217,102       11,953,636  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—1.0%

 

 

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

    353,860       10,686,572  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Utilities—1.2%

 

 

Black Hills Corp.

    162,970       12,739,365  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—6.3%

 

Alliance Resource Partners L.P.

    79,960       1,357,721  

Cimarex Energy Co.

    135,670       8,049,301  

CNX Midstream Partners L.P.

    715,251       10,049,277  

Delek Logistics Partners L.P.

    181,763       5,816,416  

Enerplus Corp.

    1,513,600       11,397,408  

Murphy Oil Corp.

    230,510       5,682,072  

Parkland Fuel Corp.

    335,959       10,659,460  

Ship Finance International Ltd.

    1,056,130       13,212,186  
   

 

 

 
      66,223,841  
   

 

 

 
Professional Services—2.0%

 

 

ICF International, Inc.

    156,340       11,381,552  

Korn Ferry

    250,252       10,027,598  
   

 

 

 
      21,409,150  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—1.1%

 

 

Werner Enterprises, Inc.

    361,227       11,226,935  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—2.9%

 

Cabot Microelectronics Corp.

    113,284       12,470,303  

MKS Instruments, Inc.

    76,453       5,954,924  

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

    86,060       11,685,227  
   

 

 

 
      30,110,454  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—0.5%

 

 

Designer Brands, Inc., Class A

    289,890       5,557,191  
   

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.1%

 

Columbia Sportswear Co.

    119,385       11,957,602  
   

 

 

 
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance—1.3%

 

Washington Federal, Inc.

    380,140       13,278,290  
   

 

 

 
     Shares     Value  
Tobacco—1.1%

 

 

Universal Corp.

    192,070     $ 11,672,094  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock (cost—$952,511,190)

 

    1,058,197,539  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—1.2%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $13,137,547; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $13,405,796 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$13,137,000)

    $13,137       13,137,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments (cost—$965,648,190)—101.9%

 

    1,071,334,539  
   

 

 

 
Liabilities in excess of other assets—(1.9)%       (19,716,525
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $1,051,618,014  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Fair-Valued—Security with a value of $56, representing less than 0.05% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(b) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

 

 

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AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—98.3%

 

 
Aerospace & Defense—1.7%

 

Axon Enterprise, Inc. (c)

    5,430       $348,660  

BWX Technologies, Inc.

    3,640       189,644  

HEICO Corp.

    1,255       167,931  

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (c)

    18,230       417,285  

Moog, Inc., Class A

    8,575       802,706  
   

 

 

 
      1,926,226  
   

 

 

 
Airlines—0.3%

 

 

Spirit Airlines, Inc. (c)

    6,345       302,847  
   

 

 

 
Auto Components—1.0%

 

Dana, Inc.

    37,840       754,530  

Fox Factory Holding Corp. (c)

    3,052       251,820  

Stoneridge, Inc. (c)

    4,085       128,882  
   

 

 

 
      1,135,232  
   

 

 

 
Banks—2.3%

 

 

BankFinancial Corp.

    4,910       68,691  

Carolina Financial Corp.

    1,507       52,881  

CBTX, Inc.

    2,665       74,993  

First BanCorp

    81,210       896,558  

First Financial Bankshares, Inc.

    29,550       909,844  

First Foundation, Inc.

    3,664       49,244  

HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. (c)

    3,670       68,739  

IBERIABANK Corp.

    2,605       197,589  

Preferred Bank

    995       47,014  

RBB Bancorp

    3,380       65,369  

Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc.

    5,305       81,220  

Veritex Holdings, Inc.

    2,187       56,753  
   

 

 

 
      2,568,895  
   

 

 

 
Beverages—1.1%

 

 

Boston Beer Co., Inc., Class A (c)

    2,800       1,057,728  

Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (c)

    5,065       70,859  

MGP Ingredients, Inc.

    1,136       75,328  

Primo Water Corp. (c)

    3,798       46,716  
   

 

 

 
      1,250,631  
   

 

 

 
Biotechnology—5.7%

 

 

Albireo Pharma, Inc. (c)

    601       19,376  

Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    6,492       81,020  

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    1,429       83,782  

ArQule, Inc. (c)

    3,881       42,730  

Array BioPharma, Inc. (c)

    3,658       169,475  

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    5,384       142,676  

Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    4,155       157,308  

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    4,126       15,638  

Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co., Ltd. (c)

    891       39,017  

BioSpecifics Technologies Corp. (c)

    5,242       313,000  

Blueprint Medicines Corp. (c)

    1,838       173,379  

Cara Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    1,488       31,992  

Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (c)

    2,059       14,269  

CRISPR Therapeutics AG (c)

    3,435       161,789  

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    2,123       33,437  

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    2,141       43,462  

Genomic Health, Inc. (c)

    14,240       828,341  

Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    1,775       93,365  

GlycoMimetics, Inc. (c)

    1,786       21,289  

 

     Shares     Value  

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    51,590     $ 886,316  

Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    8,443       138,212  

Invitae Corp. (c)

    25,137       590,720  

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (c)

    6,487       159,061  

Kindred Biosciences, Inc. (c)

    3,868       32,220  

Kura Oncology, Inc. (c)

    1,953       38,455  

MacroGenics, Inc. (c)

    1,653       28,051  

Natera, Inc. (c)

    21,279       586,875  

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    3,900       24,063  

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    2,783       125,235  

REGENXBIO, Inc. (c)

    2,626       134,898  

T2 Biosystems, Inc. (c)

    7,306       12,274  

uniQure NV (c)

    600       46,890  

Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    2,105       29,659  

Veracyte, Inc. (c)

    18,491       527,178  

Vericel Corp. (c)

    21,736       410,593  

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    3,297       27,365  

Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    1,421       38,680  
   

 

 

 
      6,302,090  
   

 

 

 
Building Products—0.3%

 

 

PGT Innovations, Inc. (c)

    2,681       44,826  

Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.

    4,745       315,353  
   

 

 

 
      360,179  
   

 

 

 
Capital Markets—1.2%

 

 

Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc., Class A

    25,100       690,752  

Barings BDC, Inc.

    13,830       136,087  

BlackRock TCP Capital Corp.

    5,325       75,881  

Golub Capital BDC, Inc.

    15,370       273,586  

Main Street Capital Corp.

    2,143       88,120  

Prospect Capital Corp.

    11,905       77,740  
   

 

 

 
      1,342,166  
   

 

 

 
Chemicals—0.6%

 

 

American Vanguard Corp.

    2,380       36,676  

Balchem Corp.

    690       68,979  

Ingevity Corp. (c)

    4,096       430,776  

Westlake Chemical Partners L.P.

    5,735       141,024  
   

 

 

 
      677,455  
   

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies—2.6%

 

Brink’s Co.

    3,532       286,728  

Herman Miller, Inc.

    20,130       899,811  

MSA Safety, Inc.

    5,455       574,902  

Tetra Tech, Inc.

    14,540       1,142,117  
   

 

 

 
      2,903,558  
   

 

 

 
Communications Equipment—0.6%

 

Acacia Communications, Inc. (c)

    6,607       311,586  

EchoStar Corp., Class A (c)

    2,390       105,925  

InterDigital, Inc.

    1,045       67,298  

NetScout Systems, Inc. (c)

    2,740       69,569  

Viavi Solutions, Inc. (c)

    5,505       73,161  
   

 

 

 
      627,539  
   

 

 

 
Construction & Engineering—0.7%

 

EMCOR Group, Inc.

    6,600       581,460  

NV5 Global, Inc. (c)

    1,448       117,867  

Sterling Construction Co., Inc. (c)

    4,590       61,598  
   

 

 

 
      760,925  
   

 

 

 
Construction Materials—0.1%

 

 

U.S. Concrete, Inc. (c)

    1,148       57,044  
   

 

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Containers & Packaging—0.1%

 

 

Silgan Holdings, Inc.

    3,740     $ 114,444  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Consumer Services—1.4%

 

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (c)

    3,055       460,908  

Carriage Services, Inc.

    6,218       118,204  

Chegg, Inc. (c)

    8,204       316,592  

Graham Holdings Co., Class B

    200       138,006  

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (c)

    665       77,818  

HyreCar, Inc.

    6,068       25,486  

OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd. (c)

    7,105       110,128  

Strategic Education, Inc.

    1,787       318,086  
   

 

 

 
      1,565,228  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Financial Services—0.3%

 

Compass Diversified Holdings

    15,310       292,574  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Telecommunication Services—0.4%

 

Bandwidth, Inc., Class A (c)

    3,018       226,410  

Pareteum Corp. (c)

    13,378       34,917  

Vonage Holdings Corp. (c)

    16,758       189,868  
   

 

 

 
      451,195  
   

 

 

 
Electric Utilities—3.1%

 

 

ALLETE, Inc.

    3,080       256,287  

El Paso Electric Co.

    12,700       830,580  

Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.

    11,975       521,511  

IDACORP, Inc.

    1,745       175,250  

Otter Tail Corp.

    1,570       82,912  

PNM Resources, Inc.

    3,090       157,312  

Portland General Electric Co.

    26,715       1,447,152  
   

 

 

 
      3,471,004  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—0.8%

 

Atkore International Group, Inc. (c)

    28,300       732,121  

TPI Composites, Inc. (c)

    7,009       173,263  
   

 

 

 
      905,384  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—3.6%

 

Fabrinet (c)

    12,690       630,312  

Methode Electronics, Inc.

    23,700       677,109  

Napco Security Technologies, Inc. (c)

    11,329       336,245  

Novanta, Inc. (c)

    8,900       839,270  

Sanmina Corp. (c)

    22,680       686,750  

SYNNEX Corp.

    7,755       763,092  
   

 

 

 
      3,932,778  
   

 

 

 
Energy Equipment & Services—0.3%

 

DMC Global, Inc.

    4,362       276,333  

USA Compression Partners L.P.

    4,130       73,390  
   

 

 

 
      349,723  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.3%

 

Gaia, Inc. Class A (c)

    3,807       28,857  

Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Braves, Class A (c)

    5,125       142,475  

Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Braves, Class C (c)

    5,035       140,829  

Madison Square Garden Co., Class A (c)

    585       163,765  

Reading International, Inc., Class A (c)

    8,280       107,474  

Rosetta Stone, Inc. (c)

    19,707       450,896  

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., Class A

    2,326       167,961  
 

 

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Zynga, Inc., Class A (c)

    43,535     $ 266,870  
   

 

 

 
      1,469,127  
   

 

 

 
Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—3.9%

 

CareTrust REIT, Inc.

    33,730       802,099  

Chatham Lodging Trust

    25,820       487,223  

CoreCivic, Inc.

    36,080       749,021  

Equity Commonwealth

    12,750       414,630  

Industrial Logistics Properties Trust

    34,600       720,372  

Outfront Media, Inc.

    30,905       797,040  

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.

    4,005       324,766  

Winthrop Realty Trust (a)(b)(c)

    12,960       2,074  
   

 

 

 
      4,297,225  
   

 

 

 
Food & Staples Retailing—0.5%

 

Casey’s General Stores, Inc.

    740       115,432  

Performance Food Group Co. (c)

    8,137       325,724  

PriceSmart, Inc.

    1,165       59,555  

Weis Markets, Inc.

    1,865       67,905  
   

 

 

 
      568,616  
   

 

 

 
Food Products—2.5%

 

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.

    1,775       74,053  

Conagra Brands, Inc.

    2,967       78,685  

Flowers Foods, Inc.

    8,945       208,150  

Freshpet, Inc. (c)

    7,665       348,834  

J&J Snack Foods Corp.

    2,030       326,729  

John B Sanfilippo & Son, Inc.

    1,748       139,298  

Lancaster Colony Corp.

    995       147,857  

Sanderson Farms, Inc.

    5,100       696,456  

Simply Good Foods Co. (c)

    19,761       475,845  

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.

    6,300       232,659  
   

 

 

 
      2,728,566  
   

 

 

 
Gas Utilities—1.0%

 

Northwest Natural Holding Co.

    1,015       70,543  

ONE Gas, Inc.

    835       75,400  

Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.

    8,800       788,656  

Suburban Propane Partners L.P.

    5,510       133,838  
   

 

 

 
      1,068,437  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Equipment & Supplies—5.7%

 

Antares Pharma, Inc. (c)

    12,924       42,520  

Axogen, Inc. (c)

    2,648       52,430  

BioLife Solutions, Inc. (c)

    3,317       56,223  

Cerus Corp. (c)

    8,774       49,310  

CONMED Corp.

    1,005       85,998  

CryoLife, Inc. (c)

    2,778       83,146  

CryoPort, Inc. (c)

    18,064       330,933  

CytoSorbents Corp. (c)

    4,933       32,607  

Globus Medical, Inc., Class A (c)

    7,865       332,690  

Haemonetics Corp. (c)

    6,902       830,587  

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.

    4,105       429,465  

Masimo Corp. (c)

    9,565       1,423,463  

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (c)

    7,976       475,051  

Mesa Laboratories, Inc.

    312       76,234  

Novocure Ltd. (c)

    5,179       327,468  

OrthoPediatrics Corp. (c)

    2,051       79,989  

RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. (c)

    74,820       317,985  

Sientra, Inc. (c)

    2,890       17,802  

STAAR Surgical Co. (c)

    5,369       157,741  

Surmodics, Inc. (c)

    1,475       63,676  

Tactile Systems Technology, Inc. (c)

    1,733       98,642  

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (c)

    5,102       329,181  
     Shares     Value  

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

    2,595     $ 248,342  

ViewRay, Inc. (c)

    29,546       260,300  

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

    775       96,991  
   

 

 

 
      6,298,774  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Providers & Services—3.9%

 

Addus HomeCare Corp. (c)

    5,998       449,550  

Amedisys, Inc. (c)

    4,345       527,527  

BioTelemetry, Inc. (c)

    1,579       76,029  

Catasys, Inc. (c)

    3,047       58,563  

Chemed Corp.

    770       277,847  

Encompass Health Corp.

    2,685       170,122  

HealthEquity, Inc. (c)

    3,909       255,649  

Joint Corp. (c)

    3,590       65,338  

LHC Group, Inc. (c)

    3,871       462,894  

Premier, Inc., Class A (c)

    2,985       116,743  

Providence Service Corp. (c)

    1,185       67,948  

R1 RCM, Inc. (c)

    132,107       1,661,906  

RadNet, Inc. (c)

    4,156       57,311  

U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.

    565       69,252  
   

 

 

 
      4,316,679  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Technology—1.2%

 

 

Omnicell, Inc. (c)

    5,178       445,464  

Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. (c)

    6,424       320,750  

Teladoc Health, Inc. (c)

    7,410       492,098  

Vocera Communications, Inc. (c)

    2,901       92,600  
   

 

 

 
      1,350,912  
   

 

 

 
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—2.5%

 

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (c)

    5,186       46,830  

Cedar Fair L.P.

    1,585       75,589  

Century Casinos, Inc. (c)

    5,726       55,542  

Choice Hotels International, Inc.

    1,690       147,047  

Churchill Downs, Inc.

    4,275       491,924  

Dine Brands Global, Inc.

    3,200       305,504  

Eldorado Resorts, Inc. (c)

    9,947       458,258  

Hyatt Hotels Corp., Class A

    7,890       600,666  

International Speedway Corp., Class A

    2,160       96,962  

Jack in the Box, Inc.

    1,100       89,529  

Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. (c)

    13,105       235,235  

PlayAGS, Inc. (c)

    9,900       192,555  
   

 

 

 
      2,795,641  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—1.2%

 

 

Lennar Corp., Class B

    12,965       499,282  

LGI Homes, Inc. (c)

    919       65,644  

Taylor Morrison Home Corp., Class A (c)

    36,300       760,848  
   

 

 

 
      1,325,774  
   

 

 

 
Household Products—0.3%

 

 

Central Garden & Pet Co. (c)

    2,745       73,978  

Central Garden & Pet Co., Class A (c)

    2,790       68,746  

WD-40 Co.

    1,380       219,475  
   

 

 

 
      362,199  
   

 

 

 
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders—0.4%

 

Ormat Technologies, Inc.

    3,415       216,477  

TerraForm Power, Inc., Class A

    17,175       245,602  
   

 

 

 
      462,079  
   

 

 

 
     Shares     Value  
Insurance—3.5%

 

 

American Equity Investment Life Holding Co.

    22,890     $ 621,692  

American National Insurance Co.

    1,300       151,411  

AMERISAFE, Inc.

    3,165       201,832  

Argo Group International Holdings Ltd.

    11,907       881,713  

Donegal Group, Inc., Class A

    6,885       105,134  

eHealth, Inc. (c)

    5,505       473,981  

Enstar Group Ltd. (c)

    565       98,468  

Investors Title Co.

    445       74,315  

Kemper Corp.

    5,220       450,434  

NI Holdings, Inc. (c)

    5,465       96,239  

ProAssurance Corp.

    3,055       110,316  

RLI Corp.

    2,840       243,416  

Safety Insurance Group, Inc.

    1,090       103,692  

State Auto Financial Corp.

    6,590       230,650  
   

 

 

 
      3,843,293  
   

 

 

 
Interactive Media & Services—0.4%

 

QuinStreet, Inc. (c)

    29,897       473,867  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—0.1%

 

Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc., Class A (c)

    2,160       103,226  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—2.9%

 

 

Brightcove, Inc. (c)

    6,236       64,418  

Carbonite, Inc. (c)

    2,276       59,267  

CSG Systems International, Inc.

    2,305       112,553  

Hackett Group, Inc.

    3,214       53,963  

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. (c)

    8,156       395,403  

ManTech International Corp., Class A

    16,155       1,063,807  

MAXIMUS, Inc.

    12,235       887,527  

Science Applications International Corp.

    7,135       617,605  
   

 

 

 
      3,254,543  
   

 

 

 
Leisure Equipment & Products—2.0%

 

Clarus Corp.

    29,960       432,622  

Malibu Boats, Inc., Class A (c)

    18,554       720,823  

MasterCraft Boat Holdings, Inc. (c)

    32,406       634,833  

YETI Holdings, Inc. (c)

    14,309       414,246  
   

 

 

 
      2,202,524  
   

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services—4.0%

 

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (c)

    8,390       1,190,541  

Codexis, Inc. (c)

    2,622       48,323  

Fluidigm Corp. (c)

    23,430       288,658  

Medpace Holdings, Inc. (c)

    10,145       663,686  

NanoString Technologies, Inc. (c)

    9,261       281,071  

NeoGenomics, Inc. (c)

    24,929       546,942  

PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (c)

    9,645       956,302  

Quanterix Corp. (c)

    13,372       451,840  
   

 

 

 
      4,427,363  
   

 

 

 
Machinery—2.0%

 

 

Chart Industries, Inc. (c)

    5,558       427,299  

Columbus McKinnon Corp.

    6,377       267,643  

Kadant, Inc.

    834       75,735  

Kornit Digital Ltd. (c)

    17,660       559,115  

Park-Ohio Holdings Corp.

    8,340       271,801  

SPX Corp. (c)

    19,700       650,494  
   

 

 

 
      2,252,087  
   

 

 

 
Media—2.0%

 

 

Cable One, Inc.

    135       158,084  

Cardlytics, Inc. (c)

    2,561       66,535  

Fluent, Inc. (c)

    9,439       50,782  

Gray Television, Inc. (c)

    19,650       322,063  
 

 

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Liberty Broadband Corp., Class A (c)

    1,915     $ 196,938  

Loral Space & Communications, Inc. (c)

    1,990       68,675  

New York Times Co., Class A

    2,375       77,472  

News Corp., Class B

    11,635       162,425  

Nexstar Media Group, Inc., Class A

    7,723       780,023  

Scholastic Corp.

    2,815       93,571  

TechTarget, Inc. (c)

    13,096       278,290  
   

 

 

 
      2,254,858  
   

 

 

 
Metals & Mining—0.1%

 

 

Novagold Resources, Inc. (c)

    11,830       69,915  
   

 

 

 
Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—3.3%

 

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

    21,350       392,627  

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.

    5,390       100,470  

Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc., Class A

    13,480       479,618  

Capstead Mortgage Corp.

    57,000       475,950  

Chimera Investment Corp.

    6,815       128,599  

Ellington Financial, Inc. (c)

    7,490       134,595  

Exantas Capital Corp.

    20,680       233,891  

Granite Point Mortgage Trust, Inc.

    18,445       353,960  

Invesco Mortgage Capital, Inc.

    4,170       67,220  

MFA Financial, Inc.

    75,220       540,080  

Ready Capital Corp.

    14,020       208,898  

TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc.

    25,860       498,839  
   

 

 

 
      3,614,747  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Line Retail—0.2%

 

 

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. (c)

    2,054       178,924  
   

 

 

 
Multi-Utilities—1.1%

 

 

Black Hills Corp.

    7,030       549,535  

NorthWestern Corp.

    5,365       387,085  

Unitil Corp.

    4,035       241,656  
   

 

 

 
      1,178,276  
   

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—1.8%

 

Alliance Resource Partners L.P.

    37,725       640,571  

Black Stone Minerals L.P.

    7,555       117,103  

Dorchester Minerals L.P.

    3,840       70,310  

Enviva Partners L.P.

    3,355       105,414  

Evolution Petroleum Corp.

    6,110       43,687  

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (c)

    4,550       93,366  

PBF Logistics L.P.

    6,450       136,353  

Penn Virginia Corp. (c)

    925       28,379  

Plains GP Holdings L.P., Class A (c)

    18,450       460,697  

Ship Finance International Ltd.

    9,440       118,094  

Sunoco L.P.

    4,040       126,371  

TC Pipelines L.P.

    2,220       83,516  
   

 

 

 
      2,023,861  
   

 

 

 
Paper & Forest Products—0.4%

 

 

Mercer International, Inc.

    25,235       390,385  
   

 

 

 
Personal Products—0.3%

 

 

Inter Parfums, Inc.

    1,185       78,791  

Medifast, Inc.

    1,539       197,454  

USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (c)

    885       70,295  
   

 

 

 
      346,540  
   

 

 

 
     Shares     Value  
Pharmaceuticals—1.0%

 

 

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    2,508     $ 52,944  

ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (c)

    934       76,775  

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    1,032       26,574  

Catalent, Inc. (c)

    10,415       564,597  

Cymabay Therapeutics, Inc. (c)

    2,580       18,473  

Horizon Therapeutics PLC (c)

    14,525       349,471  

Omeros Corp. (c)

    1,414       22,186  
   

 

 

 
      1,111,020  
   

 

 

 
Professional Services—2.6%

 

 

ASGN, Inc. (c)

    11,635       705,081  

CRA International, Inc.

    895       34,305  

FTI Consulting, Inc. (c)

    7,820       655,629  

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.

    22,550       675,823  

Insperity, Inc.

    3,175       387,795  

Kforce, Inc.

    2,019       70,847  

Upwork, Inc. (c)

    17,773       285,790  
   

 

 

 
      2,815,270  
   

 

 

 
Real Estate Management & Development—0.9%

 

HFF, Inc., Class A

    19,035       865,712  

St Joe Co. (c)

    4,845       83,721  
   

 

 

 
      949,433  
   

 

 

 
Road & Rail—0.3%

 

 

Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc.

    15,235       342,330  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—1.3%

 

Ambarella, Inc. (c)

    7,478       330,004  

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (c)

    2,166       32,598  

AXT, Inc. (c)

    7,288       28,860  

FormFactor, Inc. (c)

    3,867       60,596  

Ichor Holdings Ltd. (c)

    2,231       52,741  

Inphi Corp. (c)

    5,197       260,370  

MKS Instruments, Inc.

    4,103       319,583  

Semtech Corp. (c)

    6,656       319,821  
   

 

 

 
      1,404,573  
   

 

 

 
Software—6.8%

 

 

ACI Worldwide, Inc. (c)

    16,200       556,308  

Alteryx, Inc., Class A (c)

    2,118       231,116  

Aspen Technology, Inc. (c)

    4,640       576,659  

Blackline, Inc. (c)

    6,017       321,970  

Digital Turbine, Inc. (c)

    61,236       306,180  

Everbridge, Inc. (c)

    4,834       432,256  

Five9, Inc. (c)

    6,655       341,335  

Instructure, Inc. (c)

    1,737       73,822  

LivePerson, Inc. (c)

    15,016       421,049  

MobileIron, Inc. (c)

    8,838       54,796  

Model N, Inc. (c)

    36,196       705,822  

Pluralsight, Inc., Class A (c)

    9,748       295,559  

PROS Holdings, Inc. (c)

    1,668       105,518  

Rapid7, Inc. (c)

    5,640       326,217  

RealPage, Inc. (c)

    3,440       202,444  

Sapiens International Corp. NV

    1,453       24,149  

SPS Commerce, Inc. (c)

    8,225       840,677  

Upland Software, Inc. (c)

    2,373       108,043  

Verint Systems, Inc. (c)

    20,649       1,110,503  

Yext, Inc. (c)

    9,278       186,395  

Zix Corp. (c)

    32,319       293,780  
   

 

 

 
      7,514,598  
   

 

 

 
Specialty Retail—0.9%

 

 

Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. (c)

    10,235       364,775  

Cato Corp., Class A

    13,290       163,733  

Murphy USA, Inc. (c)

    855       71,846  

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

    4,400       286,000  
     Shares     Value  

Winmark Corp.

    440     $ 76,186  
   

 

 

 
      962,540  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—0.1%

 

Pure Storage, Inc., Class A (c)

    10,382       158,533  
   

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.2%

 

Columbia Sportswear Co.

    3,565       357,070  

Crocs, Inc. (c)

    26,090       515,278  

Deckers Outdoor Corp. (c)

    2,705       475,999  
   

 

 

 
      1,348,347  
   

 

 

 
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance—5.0%

 

America First Multifamily Investors L.P.

    21,665       154,255  

Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.

    30,070       414,064  

ESSA Bancorp, Inc.

    4,015       61,229  

Essent Group Ltd. (c)

    20,023       940,881  

First Defiance Financial Corp.

    2,210       63,140  

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.

    2,795       92,626  

Kearny Financial Corp.

    17,130       227,658  

LendingTree, Inc. (c)

    781       328,043  

Meridian Bancorp, Inc.

    8,976       160,581  

MGIC Investment Corp. (c)

    65,930       866,320  

Northwest Bancshares, Inc.

    5,430       95,622  

OceanFirst Financial Corp.

    2,860       71,071  

Oritani Financial Corp.

    16,635       295,105  

PCSB Financial Corp.

    7,800       157,950  

Radian Group, Inc.

    43,485       993,632  

Territorial Bancorp, Inc.

    6,915       213,673  

Waterstone Financial, Inc.

    20,415       348,280  
   

 

 

 
      5,484,130  
   

 

 

 
Tobacco—0.4%

 

 

Turning Point Brands, Inc.

    6,785       332,329  

Universal Corp.

    2,400       145,848  
   

 

 

 
      478,177  
   

 

 

 
Trading Companies & Distributors—0.2%

 

Rush Enterprises, Inc., Class B

    6,915       255,233  
   

 

 

 
Water Utilities—0.8%

 

 

American States Water Co.

    7,530       566,557  

SJW Group

    5,960       362,189  
   

 

 

 
      928,746  
   

 

 

 
Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.1%

 

Boingo Wireless, Inc. (c)

    4,296       77,199  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$93,007,272)

 

    108,785,684  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—2.1%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $2,279,095; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $2,327,130 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$2,279,000)

    $2,279       2,279,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments
(cost—$95,286,272)—100.4%

 

    111,064,684  
   

 

 

 
 

 

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            Value  
Liabilities in excess of
other assets—(0.4)%

 

  $ (416,849
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $110,647,835  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) Fair-Valued—Security with a value of $2,074, representing less than 0.05% of net assets. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(b) Level 3 security. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) Non-income producing.

Glossary:

REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust

AllianzGI Technology Fund

 

    Shares     Value  
Common Stock—91.1%

 

 
Communications Equipment—2.3%

 

Arista Networks, Inc. (d)

    79,650       $20,678,733  

Cisco Systems, Inc.

    112,495       6,156,851  

Juniper Networks, Inc.

    95       2,530  

Lumentum Holdings, Inc. (d)

    95       5,074  

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

    95       15,839  

Nokia Oyj ADR

    95       476  

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (d)

    45,280       9,226,253  
   

 

 

 
      36,085,756  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Consumer Services—0.0%

 

New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. ADR (d)

    95       9,175  
   

 

 

 
Diversified Telecommunication Services—0.0%

 

AT&T, Inc.

    95       3,184  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

    95       5,427  
   

 

 

 
      8,611  
   

 

 

 
Electrical Equipment—0.8%

 

Bloom Energy Corp., Class A (d)

    1,063,490       13,049,022  

Nidec Corp.

    100       13,734  
   

 

 

 
      13,062,756  
   

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components—0.0%

 

CDW Corp.

    95       10,545  

Cognex Corp.

    100       4,798  

IPG Photonics Corp. (d)

    95       14,654  

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

    300       13,506  

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.

    165       14,039  

Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.

    950       194,906  
   

 

 

 
      252,448  
   

 

 

 
Entertainment—1.1%

 

 

Electronic Arts, Inc. (d)

    36,335       3,679,282  

Netflix, Inc. (d)

    21,110       7,754,125  

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

    100       36,690  

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (d)

    52,600       5,971,678  
   

 

 

 
      17,441,775  
   

 

 

 
Healthcare Technology—0.2%

 

 

Veeva Systems, Inc., Class A (d)

    21,270       3,448,080  
   

 

 

 
Household Durables—0.0%

 

 

Garmin Ltd.

    95       7,581  
   

 

 

 
Industrial Conglomerates—1.0%

 

Roper Technologies, Inc.

    45,200       16,554,952  
   

 

 

 
Interactive Media & Services—9.4%

 

58.com, Inc. ADR (d)

    95       5,906  

Alphabet, Inc., Class A (c)(d)

    16,150       17,487,220  

Alphabet, Inc., Class C (d)

    17,085       18,467,347  

Baidu, Inc. ADR (d)

    95       11,149  

Facebook, Inc., Class A (c)(d)

    603,405       116,457,165  

NAVER Corp.

    475       46,945  

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

    100       4,524  

TripAdvisor, Inc. (d)

    95       4,398  

Twitter, Inc. (d)

    95       3,316  

 

     Shares     Value  

Weibo Corp. ADR (d)

    20     $ 871  

Yandex NV, Class A (d)

    95       3,610  

Yelp, Inc. (d)

    95       3,247  

Zillow Group, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       4,347  
   

 

 

 
      152,500,045  
   

 

 

 
Internet & Direct Marketing Retail—6.4%

 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ADR (d)

    100       16,945  

Amazon.com, Inc. (d)

    54,755       103,685,711  

Ctrip.com International Ltd. ADR (d)

    95       3,506  

eBay, Inc.

    95       3,752  

Expedia Group, Inc.

    95       12,638  

GrubHub, Inc. (d)

    95       7,409  

JD.com, Inc. ADR (d)

    95       2,878  
   

 

 

 
      103,732,839  
   

 

 

 
IT Services—22.9%

 

 

Accenture PLC, Class A

    95       17,553  

Adyen NV (a)(d)

    95       73,282  

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (d)

    220,535       17,673,675  

Amadeus IT Group S.A.

    95       7,528  

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

    95       15,706  

DXC Technology Co.

    287,660       15,864,449  

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

    65,050       7,980,334  

First Data Corp., Class A (d)

    349,440       9,459,341  

Fiserv, Inc. (d)

    38,840       3,540,654  

Global Payments, Inc.

    53,840       8,621,399  

GoDaddy, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       6,664  

Mastercard, Inc., Class A

    182,745       48,341,535  

MongoDB, Inc. (d)

    253,825       38,604,244  

Okta, Inc. (d)

    507,110       62,633,156  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (d)

    331,775       37,974,967  

Perspecta, Inc.

    2,645       61,920  

Sabre Corp.

    95       2,109  

Shopify, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       28,514  

Square, Inc., Class A (c)(d)

    250,070       18,137,577  

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

    2,000       64,562  

Total System Services, Inc.

    84,005       10,775,321  

Twilio, Inc., Class A (d)

    398,155       54,288,434  

Visa, Inc., Class A

    139,585       24,224,977  

Worldpay, Inc., Class A (d)

    96,030       11,768,477  
   

 

 

 
      370,166,378  
   

 

 

 
Media—0.0%

 

 

Comcast Corp., Class A

    95       4,016  
   

 

 

 
Professional Services—0.0%

 

Verisk Analytics, Inc.

    95       13,914  
   

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—10.4%

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (d)

    634,705       19,275,991  

ams AG (d)

    95       3,720  

Analog Devices, Inc.

    81,345       9,181,410  

Applied Materials, Inc.

    100       4,491  

Broadcom, Inc.

    45,260       13,028,544  

Cree, Inc. (d)

    564,935       31,738,048  

Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

    833,965       18,547,382  

Infineon Technologies AG

    95       1,688  

Intel Corp.

    100       4,787  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

    92,875       10,977,825  

Lam Research Corp.

    30,510       5,730,998  

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

    95       5,683  
 

 

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     Shares     Value  

MediaTek, Inc.

    1,000     $ 10,129  

Microchip Technology, Inc.

    204,357       17,717,752  

Micron Technology, Inc. (c)(d)

    87,675       3,383,378  

NVIDIA Corp.

    95       15,602  

ON Semiconductor Corp. (d)

    960,295       19,407,562  

QUALCOMM, Inc.

    128,265       9,757,119  

SK Hynix, Inc.

    100       6,015  

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

    100       7,727  

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR

    100       3,917  

Teradyne, Inc.

    95       4,551  

Texas Instruments, Inc.

    29,745       3,413,536  

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

    800       112,444  

Universal Display Corp.

    95       17,866  

Xilinx, Inc.

    50,895       6,001,538  
   

 

 

 
      168,359,703  
   

 

 

 
Software—33.4%

 

 

Adobe, Inc. (d)

    100       29,465  

Alteryx, Inc., Class A (d)

    290,505       31,699,906  

Aspen Technology, Inc. (d)

    6,790       843,861  

Atlassian Corp. PLC, Class A (d)

    126,500       16,551,260  

Aveva Group PLC

    322,285       16,538,362  

Box, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       1,673  

Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (d)

    95       5,503  

Coupa Software, Inc. (d)

    95       12,028  

Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. (d)

    2,685       183,359  

CyberArk Software Ltd. (d)

    79,435       10,154,970  

DocuSign, Inc. (d)

    95       4,722  

Dropbox, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       2,380  

Elastic NV (d)

    95,924       7,161,686  

ForeScout Technologies, Inc. (d)

    115,235       3,901,857  

Fortinet, Inc. (d)

    100       7,683  

HubSpot, Inc. (d)

    12,300       2,097,396  

Intuit, Inc.

    95       24,826  

Microsoft Corp. (c)

    1,021,876       136,890,509  

Nutanix, Inc., Class A (d)

    392,035       10,169,388  

Oracle Corp.

    95       5,412  

Paycom Software, Inc. (d)

    406,624       92,189,793  

Proofpoint, Inc. (d)

    133,355       16,035,939  

Rapid7, Inc. (d)

    221,795       12,828,623  

RealPage, Inc. (d)

    100       5,885  

Red Hat, Inc. (d)

    95       17,837  

RingCentral, Inc., Class A (d)

    246,620       28,341,570  

Salesforce.com, Inc. (d)

    140,516       21,320,493  

SAP SE ADR

    95       12,996  

ServiceNow, Inc. (d)

    222,030       60,962,777  

Sophos Group PLC (a)

    95       477  

Splunk, Inc. (d)

    95       11,946  

Tableau Software, Inc., Class A (d)

    100       16,602  

Temenos AG (d)

    3,300       590,878  

Tenable Holdings, Inc. (d)

    131,627       3,756,635  
     Shares     Value  

VMware, Inc., Class A

    95     $ 15,885  

Workday, Inc., Class A (d)

    191,820       39,434,356  

Zendesk, Inc. (d)

    95       8,458  

Zscaler, Inc. (d)

    365,605       28,019,967  

Zuora, Inc., Class A (d)

    95       1,455  
   

 

 

 
      539,858,818  
   

 

 

 
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—3.2%

 

Apple, Inc. (c)

    73,105       14,468,942  

Catcher Technology Co., Ltd.

    1,000       7,185  

Dell Technologies, Inc. Class C (d)

    175       8,890  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

    95       1,420  

HP, Inc.

    95       1,975  

NetApp, Inc. (c)

    531,485       32,792,625  

Pure Storage, Inc., Class A (d)

    314,260       4,798,750  

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    950       38,684  

Western Digital Corp.

    95       4,517  
   

 

 

 
      52,122,988  
   

 

 

 
Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.0%

 

T-Mobile U.S., Inc. (d)

    95       7,043  
   

 

 

 
Total Common Stock
(cost—$891,697,270)

 

    1,473,636,878  
   

 

 

 
   
Exchange-Traded Funds—0.0%

 

 

iShares FTSE A50 China Index
(cost—$1,524)

    1,000       1,913  
   

 

 

 
   
    Principal
Amount
(000s)
       
Repurchase Agreements—9.2%

 

State Street Bank and Trust Co., dated 6/28/19, 0.50%, due 7/1/19, proceeds $149,345,222; collateralized by U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Notes, 0.25%, due 1/15/25, valued at $4,725,325 including accrued interest and U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds, 2.375%, due 1/15/25, valued at $221,268 including accrued interest and U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.875%-2.50%, due 5/15/24-8/31/24, valued at $147,383,474 including accrued interest

 

(cost—$149,339,000)

    $149,339       149,339,000  
   

 

 

 
Total Options Purchased —0.2%
(cost—$1,613,883) (d)(e)(f)

 

    2,659,800  
   

 

 

 
Total Investments, before options written and securities sold short
(cost—$1,042,651,677)—100.5%

 

    1,625,637,591  
   

 

 

 
   
    Shares     Value  
Securities sold Short—(0.0)%

 

Common Stock—(0.0)%

 

IT Services—(0.0)%

 

 

International Business Machines Corp. (proceeds received—$162)

    1     $ (138
   

 

 

 
Total Options Written—(0.0)%

 

(premiums received—$2,868,581) (d)(e)(f)       (437,500
   

 

 

 
Total Investments, net of options written and securities sold short
(cost—$1,039,782,934) (b)—100.5%

 

    1,625,199,953  
   

 

 

 
Other liabilities in excess
of other assets—(0.5)%
      (7,943,749
   

 

 

 
Net Assets—100.0%       $1,617,256,204  
   

 

 

 

 

Notes to Schedule of Investments:

(a) 144A—Exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, typically only to qualified institutional buyers. Securities with an aggregate value of $73,759, representing less than 0.05% of net assets.

(b) Securities (net of security sold short) with an aggregate value of $17,781,211, representing 1.1% of net assets, were valued utilizing modeling tools provided by a third-party vendor. See Note 1(a) and Note 1(b) in the Notes to Financial Statements.

(c) All or partial amount segregated for the benefit of the counterparty as collateral for security sold short and options written.

(d) Non-income producing.

(e) Exchange traded-Chicago Board Options Exchange.

 

 

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(f) Exchange traded option contracts outstanding at June 30, 2019:

 

Options purchased contracts outstanding at June 30, 2019:                    
Description   Exercise
Price
    Expiration
Date
    Number of
Contracts
    Notional
Amount
    Market
Value
    Cost     Unrealized
Appreciation
 

Call options:

 

Broadcom Ltd.

    260.00 USD       1/17/20       620     $ 62,000     $ 2,659,800     $ 1,613,883     $ 1,045,917  
         

 

 

 

 

Options written contracts outstanding at June 30, 2019:                    
Description   Exercise
Price
    Expiration
Date
    Number of
Contracts
    Notional
Amount
    Market
Value
    Premiums
Received
    Unrealized
Appreciation
 

Call options:

 

Arista Networks, Inc.

    330.00 USD       9/20/19       (608   $ (60,800   $ (136,800   $ (1,484,253   $ 1,347,453  

Put options:

 

Broadcom Ltd.

    210.00 USD       1/17/20       (620   $ (62,000   $ (300,700   $ (1,384,328   $ 1,083,628  
         

 

 

 
Total options written contracts

 

  $ (437,500   $ (2,868,581   $ 2,431,081  
     

 

 

 

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary Receipt

FTSE—Financial Times Stock Exchange

 

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities

June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
Emerging
Markets
Opportunities
    AllianzGI
Focused
Growth
    AllianzGI
Global
Natural
Resources
    AllianzGI
Global
Small-Cap
 
Assets:                        
Investments, at value   $   376,561,184     $   1,045,300,828     $   12,137,842     $   131,701,732  
Investments in Affiliates, at value                        
Cash     2,125,431       542       28,961       284  
Foreign currency, at value     3,601,595             960       301,018  
Dividends and interest receivable (net of foreign withholding taxes)     1,976,321       255,169       10,813       137,212  
Receivable for Fund shares sold     218,906       305,710       3,275       3,542  
Investments in Affiliated Funds —Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan (see Note 4)     65,339       232,365       9,035       51,476  
Tax reclaims receivable     51,814             11,553       153,127  
Receivable for investments sold           6,581,228       93,470       2,652,299  
Prepaid expenses and other assets                        

Total Assets

    384,600,590       1,052,675,842       12,295,909       135,000,690  
Liabilities:                        
Payable for Fund shares redeemed     3,458,216       938,294       7,081       204,089  
Payable for investments purchased     2,124,560       9,416,570       38,463       701,153  
Investment Advisory fees payable     185,163       273,697       6,459       95,348  
Administration fees payable     73,453       275,983       3,778       42,087  
Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan payable (see Note 4)     65,339       232,365       9,035       51,476  
Servicing fees payable     9,806       121,964       1,250       10,330  
Distribution fees payable     2,110       33,180       645       4,400  
Options written, at value                        
Accrued expenses and other liabilities     322,346                    

Total Liabilities

    6,240,993       11,292,053       66,711       1,108,883  
Net Assets   $ 378,359,597     $ 1,041,383,789     $ 12,229,198     $ 133,891,807  
Net Assets Consist of:                        
Paid-in-capital   $ 386,315,847     $ 588,209,374     $ 22,107,763     $ 112,761,138  
Total distributable earnings     (7,956,250     453,174,415       (9,878,565     21,130,669  
Net Assets   $ 378,359,597     $ 1,041,383,789     $ 12,229,198     $ 133,891,807  
Cost of Investments   $ 342,306,247     $ 647,434,842     $ 11,379,430     $ 111,374,823  
Cost of Investments in Affiliates   $     $     $     $  
Cost of Foreign Currency   $ 3,589,301     $     $ 961     $ 298,762  
Premiums Received for Options Written   $     $     $     $  

 

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AllianzGI
Health
Sciences
    AllianzGI
Income &
Growth
    AllianzGI
Mid-Cap
    AllianzGI NFJ
Dividend Value
    AllianzGI NFJ
International
Value
 
                                 
        $   156,037,624     $   4,510,061,949     $   313,057,281     $   1,356,715,113     $    179,422,595  
                17,134,504                    
          725       124,365       63       169       818  
          33,207                         53,011  
         
    
81,601

 
    31,760,397       77,325       2,225,389       448,411  
          118,395       9,805,880       12,303       428,102       14,284  
         
    
42,486

 
    582,835       62,568       1,449,027       296,066  
          155,304       4,180             472,495       298,154  
          5,098,836       6,626,973       6,988,178       48,844,886        
                2,496                    
      161,568,178       4,576,103,579       320,197,718       1,410,135,181       180,533,339  
                                 
          39,032       4,275,564       191,586       2,410,456       243,633  
          5,828,361       42,884,208       7,508,345       47,740,210        
          92,969       2,179,443       110,090       388,816       74,887  
          46,169       1,207,551       90,846       376,891       60,937  
          42,486       582,835       62,568       1,449,027       296,066  
          28,264       507,634       49,249       115,108       17,407  
          2,330       699,850       17,611       411,459       34,554  
                760,940                    
                                  286  
          6,079,611       53,098,025       8,030,295       52,891,967       727,770  
    $ 155,488,567     $ 4,523,005,554     $ 312,167,423     $ 1,357,243,214     $ 179,805,569  
                                 
        $ 128,083,679     $ 4,978,178,241     $ 234,031,163     $ 1,143,481,116     $ 621,652,311  
          27,404,888       (455,172,687     78,136,260       213,762,098       (441,846,742
        $ 155,488,567     $ 4,523,005,554     $ 312,167,423     $ 1,357,243,214     $ 179,805,569  
        $ 134,488,078     $ 4,949,194,679     $ 240,932,500     $ 1,180,829,262     $ 172,970,521  
        $     $ 24,798,435     $     $     $  
        $ 33,219     $     $     $     $ 52,899  
        $     $ 611,487     $     $     $  

 

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June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
Emerging
Markets
Opportunities
    AllianzGI
Focused
Growth
    AllianzGI
Global
Natural
Resources
    AllianzGI
Global
Small-Cap
 
Net Assets:                        
Class A   $ 48,388,176     $   577,106,080     $   5,465,752     $   46,947,011  
Class C     3,675,209       48,705,644       1,153,689       7,353,563  
Class R           22,511,374              
Class P     20,453,782       91,265,180       600,509       11,675,259  
Institutional Class       282,195,352       162,173,235       5,009,248       67,915,974  
Class R6     23,647,078       134,484,752              
Administrative Class           5,137,524              
Shares Issued and Outstanding:                        
Class A     1,788,429       10,821,431       384,899       1,192,591  
Class C     137,065       1,414,951       86,822       222,151  
Class R           576,986              
Class P     773,115       2,286,624       41,588       274,663  
Institutional Class     10,412,212       3,317,286       343,578       1,580,382  
Class R6     876,968       2,746,687              
Administrative Class           113,270              
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share:*                        
Class A   $ 27.06     $ 53.33     $ 14.20     $ 39.37  
Class C     26.81       34.42       13.29       33.10  
Class R           39.02              
Class P     26.46       39.91       14.44       42.51  
Institutional Class     27.10       48.89       14.58       42.97  
Class R6     26.96       48.96              
Administrative Class           45.36              

 

*

Net asset value and redemption price per share may not recalculate exactly due to rounding.

 

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AllianzGI
Health
Sciences
    AllianzGI
Income &
Growth
    AllianzGI
Mid-Cap
    AllianzGI NFJ
Dividend
Value
    AllianzGI NFJ
International
Value
 
                                 
        $   147,068,196     $   1,458,641,292     $   240,016,981     $   453,254,809     $   71,931,467  
          4,130,622       1,234,667,443       21,251,354       75,395,070       13,926,439  
                4,873,241       1,384,455       73,609,556       6,107,555  
                1,122,083,129       11,617,294       378,642,359       38,654,561  
          4,289,749       702,740,449       36,372,043       263,356,795       46,472,052  
                            65,935,301       1,277,118  
                  1,525,296       47,049,324       1,436,377  
                                 
          4,557,346       132,537,980       64,033,206       37,438,136       3,893,551  
          167,161       122,581,384       7,130,233       6,118,343       767,105  
                442,818       377,813       6,080,991       329,780  
                99,358,517       2,667,212       30,999,297       2,080,022  
          130,958       61,606,574       8,286,181       21,590,378       2,498,067  
                            5,426,183       68,685  
                  380,765       3,789,921       77,471  
                                 
        $ 32.27     $ 11.01     $ 3.75     $ 12.11     $ 18.47  
          24.71       10.07       2.98       12.32       18.15  
                11.01       3.66       12.10       18.52  
                11.29       4.36       12.21       18.58  
          32.76       11.41       4.39       12.20       18.60  
                            12.15       18.59  
                      4.01       12.41       18.54  

 

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities (cont’d)

June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
NFJ Large-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Mid-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Small-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
Small-Cap
 
Assets:                        
Investments, at value   $   344,382,417     $   1,326,121,930     $   1,071,334,539     $   111,064,684  
Cash           37,396       27,766       151,482  
Foreign currency, at value                        
Dividends and interest receivable (net of foreign withholding taxes)     528,922       2,326,188       1,667,313       133,788  
Receivable for investments sold     9,305,176       3,130,575       9,596,281       94,422  
Receivable for Fund shares sold     40,771       891,875       393,988       102,742  
Tax reclaims receivable     70,146       17,706              
Investments in Affiliated Funds — Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan (see Note 4)     176,470       293,980       1,193,325       13,355  
Prepaid expenses and other assets                 887        

Total Assets

    354,503,902       1,332,819,650       1,084,214,099       111,560,473  
Liabilities:                        
Payable for investments purchased     7,120,802       8,631,799       16,201,187       760,020  
Payable for Fund shares redeemed     1,294,035       10,241,504       13,749,473       49,253  
Payable to custodian for cash overdraft     124,415                    
Securities sold short, at value                        
Options written, at value                        
Investment Advisory fees payable     118,153       546,835       406,439       49,553  
Distribution fees payable     7,654       38,585       681,250       4,418  
Servicing fees payable     36,723       126,899       89,052       13,904  
Administration fees payable     94,915       138,888       275,359       22,135  
Trustees Deferred Compensation Plan payable (see Note 4)     176,470       293,980       1,193,325       13,355  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities                        

Total Liabilities

    8,973,167       20,018,490       32,596,085       912,638  
Net Assets   $ 345,530,735     $ 1,312,801,160     $ 1,051,618,014     $ 110,647,835  
Net Assets Consist of:                        
Paid-in-capital   $ 334,956,545     $ 1,117,290,744     $ 933,663,384     $ 96,781,988  
Total distributable earnings     10,574,190       195,510,416       117,954,630       13,865,847  
Net Assets   $ 345,530,735     $ 1,312,801,160     $ 1,051,618,014     $ 110,647,835  
Cost of Investments   $ 326,345,995     $ 1,169,509,168     $ 965,648,190     $ 95,286,272  
Cost of Foreign Currency   $     $     $     $  
Proceeds Received on Securities Sold Short   $     $     $     $  
Premiums Received for Options Written   $     $     $     $  

 

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AllianzGI
Technology

 
         
        $   1,625,637,591  
          534  
          4,159,521  
       

 

354,369

 

          162  
          972,779  
          38,239  
         
    
361,362

 
           
      1,631,524,557  
         
          10,867,989  
          924,640  
           
          138  
          437,500  
          1,102,360  
          30,191  
          123,604  
          417,211  
          361,362  
          3,358  
          14,268,353  
    $ 1,617,256,204  
         
        $ 904,007,467  
          713,248,737  
        $ 1,617,256,204  
        $ 1,042,651,677  
        $ 4,017,500  
        $ 162  
        $ 2,868,581  

 

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities (cont’d)

June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
NFJ Large-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Mid-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Small-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
Small-Cap
 
Net Assets:  
Class A   $   178,310,805     $   595,707,348     $   439,711,494     $   66,268,671  
Class C     12,080,321       48,176,490       3,984,226       7,873,449  
Class R     2,089,543       20,086,898       22,152,785        
Class P     19,097,025       197,201,241       39,425,629       9,636,814  
Institutional Class     132,572,030       406,172,336       288,308,787       9,076,673  
Class R6           18,052,105       150,199,529       17,792,228  
Administrative Class     1,381,011       27,404,742       107,835,564        
Shares Issued and Outstanding:                        
Class A     6,628,700       19,465,828       30,266,190       3,398,376  
Class C     443,577       1,915,109       307,261       421,486  
Class R     76,873       767,912       1,397,299        
Class P     703,230       7,991,171       2,347,826       488,224  
Institutional Class     4,951,950       12,393,400       17,005,697       456,030  
Class R6           551,207       8,911,453       894,127  
Administrative Class     50,614       868,025       7,446,621        
Net Asset Value and Redemption Price Per Share:*                        
Class A   $ 26.90     $ 30.60     $ 14.53     $ 19.50  
Class C     27.23       25.16       12.97       18.68  
Class R     27.18       26.16       15.85        
Class P     27.16       24.68       16.79       19.74  
Institutional Class     26.77       32.77       16.95       19.90  
Class R6           32.75       16.85       19.90  
Administrative Class     27.29       31.57       14.48        

 

*

Net asset value and redemption price per share may not recalculate exactly due to rounding.

 

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AllianzGI
Technology

 
         
        $   601,111,542  
          48,842,320  
           
          155,552,757  
          800,061,333  
           
      11,688,252  
         
          9,404,449  
          1,080,184  
           
          2,145,803  
          10,797,477  
           
      170,205  
         
        $ 63.92  
          45.22  
           
          72.49  
          74.10  
           
          68.67  

 

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Statements of Operations

Year ended June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
Emerging
Markets
Opportunities
    AllianzGI
Focused
Growth
    AllianzGI
Global
Natural
Resources
    AllianzGI
Global
Small-Cap
 
Investment Income:                        
Dividends, net of foreign withholding taxes*   $ 10,604,905     $ 8,743,849     $ 507,764     $ 2,023,376  
Interest     26,575       49,137       727       21,119  
Miscellaneous     15       7,366       90       8  

Total Investment Income

    10,631,495       8,800,352       508,581       2,044,503  
Expenses:                        
Investment advisory     2,988,041       4,670,220       108,197       1,448,455  
Administration     1,453,346       3,787,750       63,460       640,433  
Distribution — Class C     37,549       769,784       11,552       90,026  
Distribution — Class R           56,518              
Servicing — Class A     141,647       1,304,173       15,956       127,822  
Servicing — Class C     12,516       256,595       3,851       30,009  
Servicing — Class R           56,518              
Distribution and/or servicing — Administrative Class           11,804              
Trustees     45,702       133,042       2,550       21,460  
Line of credit commitment     9,070       26,125       631       4,316  
Excise tax     3,886                    
Legal     237       744       15       124  
Interest expense                        
Securities sold short                 70        
Miscellaneous     6,827       9,175       1,367       3,728  

Total Expenses

    4,698,821       11,082,448       207,649       2,366,373  

Less: Investment Advisory/Administration waived

    (1,230,370     (1,142,160            

Net Expenses

    3,468,451       9,940,288       207,649       2,366,373  
Net Investment Income (Loss)     7,163,044       (1,139,936     300,932       (321,870
Realized and Change in Unrealized Gain (Loss):  
Net realized gain (loss) on:                

Investments

    (33,743,717     129,030,700       (615,914     3,581,736  

Options written

                1,475        

Forward foreign currency contracts

                53        

Foreign currency transactions

    (596,374           (5,944     (66,794
Payments from Affiliates (See Note 11)                        
Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of:                

Investments

    15,537,362       (63,725,778     (1,778,464     (15,629,895

Investments in Affiliates

                       

Options written

                       

Foreign currency transactions

    66,588             (258     8,273  
Net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss)     (18,736,141     65,304,922       (2,399,052     (12,106,680
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Investment Operations   $   (11,573,097   $    64,164,986     $  (2,098,120   $   (12,428,550
* Foreign withholding taxes   $ 1,227,896     $     $ 19,455     $
134,082
 

 

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AllianzGI
Health
Sciences
    AllianzGI
Income &
Growth
    AllianzGI
Mid-Cap
    AllianzGI
NFJ Dividend
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ International
Value
 
                                 
        $ 2,320,195     $ 32,730,440     $ 1,430,206     $ 49,210,207     $ 6,684,103  
          16,008       94,968,984       4,483       54,200       6,674  
          7       176       24,602       80       11  
      2,336,210       127,699,600       1,459,291       49,264,487       6,690,788  
                                 
          1,226,963       26,639,275       1,384,507       7,443,978       1,298,436  
          610,517       14,643,835       1,144,290       5,936,752       1,028,695  
          40,250       8,691,178       416,712       984,421       158,712  
                10,764       3,443       206,842       18,290  
          362,597       3,341,634       483,100       1,238,829       194,936  
          13,417       2,897,059       138,904       328,140       52,904  
                10,764       3,443       206,842       18,290  
                      3,580       160,864       7,327  
          20,024       510,440       38,136       217,798       29,743  
          4,142       101,204       7,483       43,023       5,801  
                                   
          113       2,766       207       1,264       165  
                            50,771       3,974  
                                   
          1,275       46,385       4,083       30,597       18,570  
          2,279,298       56,895,304       3,627,888       16,850,121       2,835,843  
                (374,587           (1,733,319     (162,304
          2,279,298       56,520,717       3,627,888       15,116,802       2,673,539  
          56,912       71,178,883       (2,168,597     34,147,685       4,017,249  
                                 
                     
          18,945,101       236,520,662       7,637,849       130,028,359       6,520,290  
                3,813,150                    
                                   
          (8,815           (112     10       (122,714
                2,600                    
                     
          (380,172     (91,091,929     31,311,937       (113,532,002     (12,729,685
                (7,663,931                  
                (825,515                  
          7,542                   413       27,990  
          18,563,656       140,755,037       38,949,674       16,496,780       (6,304,119
            
$

18,620,568

 
  $   211,933,920     $   36,781,077     $    50,644,465     $    (2,286,870
        $ 75,997     $ 5,418     $ 7,005     $ 1,001,837     $ 576,113  

 

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Statements of Operations (cont’d)

Year ended June 30, 2019

 

    AllianzGI
NFJ Large-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Mid-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
NFJ Small-Cap
Value
    AllianzGI
Small-Cap
 
Investment Income:                        
Interest   $ 16,962     $ 80,779     $ 87,431     $ 10,003  
Dividends, net of foreign withholding taxes*     9,348,866       31,164,366       44,143,690         1,477,204  
Miscellaneous     15       56       80       13,847  

Total Investment Income

    9,365,843       31,245,201       44,231,201       1,501,054  
Expenses:                        
Investment advisory     1,578,888       7,015,388       9,391,268       589,304  
Administration     1,272,350       4,625,059       5,112,958       374,592  
Distribution — Class C     201,091       646,928       272,469       118,413  
Distribution — Class R     7,408       45,493       71,626        
Servicing — Class A     426,727       1,438,083       1,397,091       152,063  
Servicing — Class C     67,030       215,643       90,823       39,471  
Servicing — Class R     7,408       45,493       71,626        
Distribution and/or servicing — Administrative Class     3,192       62,092       372,545        
Trustees     45,259       160,681       215,231       12,443  
Line of credit commitment     9,050       31,767       41,577       2,610  
Legal     249       887       1,251       68  
Dividends on securities sold short                        
Interest expense                 30,721        
Securities sold short                        
Miscellaneous     2,628       15,249       56,671       1,516  

Total Expenses

    3,621,280       14,302,763       17,125,857       1,290,480  

Less: Investment Advisory/Administration waived

          (2,806,155     (1,209,633     (89,229

Net Expenses

    3,621,280       11,496,608       15,916,224       1,201,251  
Net Investment Income (Loss)     5,744,563       19,748,593       28,314,977       299,803  
Realized and Change in Unrealized Gain (Loss):                        
Net realized gain (loss) on:              
Net realized loss on investments     (5,989,507     34,856,131       52,263,505       (971,773

Securities sold short

                       

Options written

                       

Foreign currency transactions

          6,695       (102,085      
Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of:              

Investments

    17,171,778       (9,945,989     (252,684,546     (85,006

Securities sold short

                       

Options written

                       

Foreign currency transactions

    54       (1,125     824        
Net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss)     11,182,325       24,915,712       (200,522,302     (1,056,779
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Investment Operations   $   16,926,888     $   44,664,305     $   (172,207,325   $ (756,976
* Foreign withholding taxes   $ 155,682     $ 172,292     $ 278,752     $ 658  

 

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AllianzGI
Technology
 
         
        $ 589,668  
          6,821,713  
          4,444  
          7,415,825  
         
          14,382,882  
          5,420,389  
          560,860  
           
          1,422,237  
          186,953  
           
          41,838  
          205,837  
          39,740  
          1,127  
          6,445  
          9,113  
          63,535  
          19,088  
          22,360,044  
          (850,348
          21,509,696  
      (14,093,871
         
     
          183,015,595  
          17,459  
          (2,123,063
          (125,937
     
          20,897,236  
          (1,908
          (5,861,193
          (90,682
          195,727,507  
            
$

181,633,636

 
        $ 37,700  

 

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    AllianzGI Emerging Markets
Opportunities
    AllianzGI Focused Growth         
     
     Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from:                              
     

Investment Operations:

             
Net investment income (loss)   $ 7,163,044     $ 5,119,377     $ (1,139,936   $ (765,369        
Net realized gain (loss)     (34,340,091     (8,920,246     129,030,700       51,103,752          
Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation     15,603,950       13,156,224       (63,725,778     161,891,564          
     

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from investment operations

    (11,573,097     9,355,355       64,164,986       212,229,947    
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders from:                              
     
Net investment income:              

Class A

          (1,285,169           (23,468        

Class C

          (25,141           (879        

Class R

                      (6        

Class P

          (448,520           (113,936        

Institutional Class

          (2,113,250           (203,158        

Class R6

          (14,883           (51,061        

Administrative Class

                      (10        
     
Net realized capital gains:              

Class A

                      (5,392,582        

Class C

                      (4,432,093        

Class R

                      (398,509        

Class P

                      (1,561,919        

Institutional Class

                      (3,156,079        

Class R6

                      (586,284        

Administrative Class

                      (71,082        
     
Total distributions paid:*              

Class A

    (969,272           (59,884,650              

Class C

    (15,097           (8,093,814              

Class R

                (3,051,304              

Class P

    (507,886           (14,260,002              

Institutional Class

    (6,130,461           (18,778,168              

Class R6

    (591,467           (13,248,091              

Administrative Class

                (568,572              
Total dividends and distributions to shareholders     (8,214,183     (3,886,963     (117,884,601     (15,991,066  
Fund Share Transactions:                              
Net proceeds from the sale of shares     169,185,889       251,387,461       332,235,487       216,700,595          
Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions     7,717,648       3,503,546       105,500,697       14,454,671          
Cost of shares redeemed       (146,848,611       (150,572,709     (426,260,678     (271,934,775        
Net increase (decrease) from Fund share transactions     30,054,926       104,318,298       11,475,506       (40,779,509        
Total increase (decrease) in net assets     10,267,646       109,786,690       (42,244,109     155,459,372    
Net Assets:                              
Beginning of year     368,091,951       258,305,261       1,083,627,898       928,168,526          
End of year**   $ 378,359,597     $ 368,091,951     $   1,041,383,789     $   1,083,627,898          

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1.

*

Distributions from net investment income and net realized capital gains are combined for the year ended June 30, 2019. See Note 1 in the Notes to Financial Statements for more information regarding new accounting pronouncements. The dividends and distributions to shareholders for the year ended June 30, 2018 have not been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

**

Net Assets — End of year includes undistributed (dividends in excess of) net investment income of $4,528,214 for AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities, $(623,887) for AllianzGI Focused Growth, $203,172 for AllianzGI Global Natural Resources, $(671,237) AllianzGI Global Small-Cap and $799,028 for AllianzGI Health Sciences as of June 30, 2018.

 

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       AllianzGI Global Natural
Resources
    AllianzGI Global Small-Cap     AllianzGI Health Sciences  
       
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
                                       
       
                                       
        $ 300,932     $ 229,563     $ (321,870   $ (786,438   $ 56,912     $ (146,044
          (620,330     1,099,614       3,514,942       36,877,430       18,936,286       12,896,013  
          (1,778,722     2,399,673       (15,621,622     (3,737,620     (372,630     (4,771,108
       
      (2,098,120     3,728,850       (12,428,550     32,353,372       18,620,568       7,978,861  
                                       
       
                   
                (22,600           (104,607            
                (2           (4            
                                         
                (1           (53,154            
                (33,505           (363,320            
                                         
                                         
       
                   
                            (4,831,503            
                            (1,825,070            
                                         
                            (1,455,425            
                            (7,466,205            
                                         
                                         
       
                   
          (106,938           (9,059,158           (19,287,433      
          (13,875           (2,028,346           (661,505      
                                         
          (42,273           (2,305,369                  
          (116,198           (13,171,798           (324,420      
                                         
                                         
          (279,284     (56,108     (26,564,671     (16,099,288     (20,273,358      
                                       
          3,404,031       6,932,416       22,603,210       18,628,082       12,144,594       4,201,145  
          256,399       49,377       24,879,822       14,938,931       19,582,484        
          (9,715,627     (16,062,072     (68,042,255     (70,931,193     (26,779,664     (24,792,002
          (6,055,197     (9,080,279     (20,559,223     (37,364,180     4,947,414       (20,590,857
          (8,432,601     (5,407,537     (59,552,444     (21,110,096     3,294,624       (12,611,996
      (8,432,601)     (5,407,537)     (59,552,444)     (21,110,096)     3,294,624     (12,611,996)  
          20,661,799       26,069,336       193,444,251       214,554,347       152,193,943       164,805,939  
        $   12,229,198     $    20,661,799     $   133,891,807     $   193,444,251     $   155,488,567     $   152,193,943  

 

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AllianzGI Income & Growth
    AllianzGI Mid-Cap         
     
     Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from:                              
     

Investment Operations:

             
Net investment income (loss)   $ 71,178,883     $ 63,804,793     $ (2,168,597   $ (2,449,712        
Net realized gain (loss)     240,336,412       242,826,372       7,637,737       51,205,374          
Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation     (99,581,375     (993,051     31,311,937       (9,218,208        
     

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from investment operations

    211,933,920       305,638,114       36,781,077       39,537,454    
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders from:                              
     
Net investment income:              

Class A

          (27,990,677                    

Class C

          (20,598,689                    

Class R

          (59,020                    

Class P

          (19,970,577                    

Institutional Class

          (10,121,944                    

Class R6

                               

Administrative Class

                               
     
Net realized capital gains:              

Class A

          (69,579,945           (10,987,891        

Class C

          (69,473,288           (16,017,034        

Class R

          (168,277           (266,285        

Class P

          (45,366,902           (879,671        

Institutional Class

          (22,148,657           (2,321,396        

Class R6

                               

Administrative Class

                      (121,353        
     
Return of Capital:              

Class A

                               

Class C

                               

Class R

                               

Class P

                               

Institutional Class

                               

Class R6

                               

Administrative Class

                               
     
Total distributions paid:*              

Class A

    (110,411,831           (27,816,569              

Class C

    (96,161,658           (3,319,825              

Class R

    (343,496           (183,135              

Class P

    (84,862,532           (1,150,131              

Institutional Class

    (47,989,045           (3,438,770              

Class R6

                               

Administrative Class

                (163,523              
Total dividends and distributions to shareholders     (339,768,562     (285,477,976     (36,071,953     (30,593,630  
Fund Share Transactions:                              
Net proceeds from the sale of shares     1,709,498,560       1,196,339,109       147,501,131       27,220,178          
Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions     303,320,720       246,915,825       32,092,605       26,897,865          
Cost of shares redeemed     (1,090,296,297     (952,452,588     (173,708,354     (51,312,655        
Net increase (decrease) from Fund share transactions     922,522,983       490,802,346       5,885,382       2,805,388          
Total increase (decrease) in net assets     794,688,341       510,962,484       6,594,506       11,749,212          
Net Assets:                              
Beginning of year     3,728,317,213       3,217,354,729       305,572,917       293,823,705          

End of year**

  $    4,523,005,554     $   3,728,317,213     $    312,167,423     $   305,572,917          

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1.

*

Distributions from net investment income and net realized capital gains are combined for the year ended June 30, 2019. See Note 1 in the Notes to Financial Statements for more information regarding new accounting pronouncements. The dividends and distributions to shareholders for the year ended June 30, 2018 have not been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

**

Net Assets — End of year includes undistributed (dividends in excess of) net investment income of $(21,395,422) for AllianzGI Income & Growth, $(1,717,007) for AllianzGI Mid-Cap, $1,989,444 for AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value, $(522,383) for AllianzGI NFJ International Value and $(121,757) for AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value as of June 30, 2018.

 

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       AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value     AllianzGI NFJ International
Value
    AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value  
       
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
                                       
       
                                       
        $ 34,147,685     $ 42,245,052     $ 4,017,249     $ 6,644,356     $ 5,744,563     $ 5,763,663  
          130,028,369       367,187,371       6,397,576       35,616,621       (5,989,507     89,131,221  
          (113,531,589     (147,665,772     (12,701,695     (18,041,126     17,171,832       (61,826,574
       
      50,644,465       261,766,651       (2,286,870     24,219,851       16,926,888       33,068,310  
                                       
       
                   
                (9,168,967           (1,729,618           (2,421,068
                (2,386,455           (468,524           (556,867
                (1,520,389           (126,870           (85,092
                (11,863,238           (2,064,885           (357,030
                (11,118,898           (1,206,487           (2,414,451
                (1,926,654           (44,765            
                (2,481,551           (92,560           (22,813
       
                   
                (116,513,958                        
                (55,513,493                        
                (22,585,984                        
                (132,640,140                        
                (114,548,968                        
                (18,541,699                        
                (20,927,043                        
       
                   
                            (46,282            
                            (19,274            
                            (4,762            
                            (46,555            
                            (28,713            
                            (933            
                            (2,475            
       
                   
          (103,972,637           (1,240,282           (2,878,118      
          (19,705,892           (150,145           (156,046      
          (15,736,853           (92,441           (37,054      
          (93,724,314           (886,735           (361,691      
          (71,655,918           (914,475           (2,637,372      
          (15,698,988           (28,658                  
          (13,203,454           (40,736           (22,170      
          (333,698,056     (521,737,437     (3,353,472     (5,882,703     (6,092,451     (5,857,321
                                       
          301,776,596       278,975,203       37,499,896       56,218,043       74,280,028       37,353,233  
          286,170,219       445,389,136       2,985,084       5,200,274       5,653,505       5,362,953  
          (912,899,785     (1,316,418,856     (141,030,657     (243,497,297     (107,300,262     (70,138,960
          (324,952,970     (592,054,517     (100,545,677     (182,078,980     (27,366,729     (27,422,774
      (608,006,561     (852,025,303     (106,186,019     (163,741,832     (16,532,292     (211,785
                                       
          1,965,249,775       2,817,275,078       285,991,588       449,733,420       362,063,027       362,274,812  
        $   1,357,243,214     $    1,965,249,775     $    179,805,569     $    285,991,588     $    345,530,735     $   362,063,027  

 

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (cont’d)

 

    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value     AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value         
     
     Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
Increase in Net Assets from:                              
     

Investment Operations:

             
Net investment income (loss)   $ 19,748,593     $ 11,884,978     $ 28,314,977     $ 38,441,521          
Net realized gain (loss)     34,862,826       11,068,507       52,161,420       344,066,391          
Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation     (9,947,114     4,697,184       (252,683,722     (185,882,457        
     

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from investment operations

    44,664,305       27,650,669       (172,207,325     196,625,455    
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders from:                              
     
Net investment income:              

Class A

          (4,171,641           (3,377,555        

Class C

          (318,297           (53        

Class R

          (77,400           (63,699        

Class P

          (1,511,170           (521,236        

Institutional Class

          (1,586,074           (8,284,457        

Class R6

          (2,590           (3,628,782        

Administrative Class

          (103,493           (1,623,000        
     
Net realized capital gains:              

Class A

          (44,702,946           (115,908,457        

Class C

          (17,643,815           (22,666,813        

Class R

          (819,284           (7,153,419        

Class P

          (10,998,117           (10,801,192        

Institutional Class

          (11,199,186           (158,591,956        

Class R6

          (16,847           (63,789,144        

Administrative Class

          (849,232           (48,474,051        
     
Total distributions paid:*              

Class A

    (8,958,098           (125,664,406              

Class C

    (259,371           (3,447,097              

Class R

    (286,719           (6,171,694              

Class P

    (3,913,377           (11,101,354              

Institutional Class

    (6,182,427           (94,888,377              

Class R6

    (220,071           (46,791,068              

Administrative Class

    (393,619           (34,340,757              
Total dividends and distributions to shareholders     (20,213,682     (94,000,092     (322,404,753     (444,883,814  
Fund Share Transactions:                              
Net proceeds from the sale of shares     552,773,876       792,678,134       283,770,753       490,123,036          
Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions     18,064,016       84,180,541       294,059,205       414,202,018          
Cost of shares redeemed     (551,921,766     (306,899,043     (1,291,552,009     (1,487,596,822        
Net increase (decrease) from Fund share transactions     18,916,126       569,959,632       (713,722,051     (583,271,768        
Total increase in net assets     43,366,749       503,610,209       (1,208,334,129     (831,530,127  
Net Assets:                              
Beginning of year     1,269,434,411       765,824,202       2,259,952,143       3,091,482,270          
End of year**   $   1,312,801,160     $   1,269,434,411     $    1,051,618,014     $    2,259,952,143          

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1.

*

Distributions from net investment income and net realized capital gains are combined for the year ended June 30, 2019. See Note 1 in the Notes to Financial Statements for more information regarding new accounting pronouncements. The dividends and distributions to shareholders for the year ended June 30, 2018 have not been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

**

Net Assets — End of year includes undistributed (dividends in excess of) net investment income of $106,049 for AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value, $444,830 for AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value, $(240,398) for AllianzGI Small-Cap and $(7,056,692) for AllianzGI Technology as of June 30, 2018.

 

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       AllianzGI Small-Cap     AllianzGI Technology  
     
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
                           
     
                           
        $ 299,803     $ (296,987   $ (14,093,871   $ (12,249,945
          (971,773     11,815,368       180,784,054       323,500,019  
          (85,006     3,812,594       14,943,453       166,330,893  
     
      (756,976     15,330,975       181,633,636       477,580,967  
                           
     
             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
     
             
                (5,340,498           (76,542,243
                (4,343,421           (23,797,863
                             
                (550,506           (9,980,800
                (520,890           (114,417,733
                             
                            (2,594,308
     
             
          (5,374,154           (103,779,572      
          (708,974           (11,594,326      
                             
          (673,909           (21,155,444      
          (553,729           (126,878,404      
          (43,874                  
                      (3,019,512      
      (7,354,640     (10,755,315     (266,427,258     (227,332,947
                           
          64,704,067       17,254,774       528,506,555       420,037,569  
          6,805,302       9,698,353       252,764,407       216,039,340  
          (47,676,925     (15,374,400     (661,953,777     (679,635,733
          23,832,444       11,578,727       119,317,185       (43,558,824
      15,720,828       16,154,387       34,523,563       206,689,196  
                           
          94,927,007       78,772,620       1,582,732,641       1,376,043,445  
        $   110,647,835     $    94,927,007     $   1,617,256,204     $   1,582,732,641  

 

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Financial Highlights

For a Share Outstanding for the Period ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Period
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
        
    
Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Period
        
AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   28.53     $   0.56     $   (1.55   $   (0.99   $   (0.48   $   27.06          

6/30/2018

    26.59       0.41       1.85       2.26       (0.32     28.53          

6/30/2017

    22.60       0.41       3.98       4.39       (0.40     26.59          

6/30/2016

    25.90       0.34       (3.39     (3.05     (0.25     22.60          

6/30/2015

    27.00       0.35       (1.10     (0.75     (0.35     25.90          
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 28.05     $ 0.31     $ (1.45   $ (1.14   $ (0.10   $ 26.81          

6/30/2018

    26.13       0.16       1.84       2.00       (0.08     28.05          

6/30/2017

    22.09       0.19       3.96       4.15       (0.11     26.13          

6/30/2016

    25.21       0.22       (3.34     (3.12           22.09          

6/30/2015

    26.25       0.14       (1.07     (0.93     (0.11     25.21          
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 28.02     $ 0.55     $ (1.47   $ (0.92   $ (0.64   $ 26.46          

6/30/2018

    26.17       0.46       1.84       2.30       (0.45     28.02          

6/30/2017

    22.23       0.44       3.94       4.38       (0.44     26.17          

6/30/2016

    25.44       0.46       (3.40     (2.94     (0.27     22.23          

6/30/2015

    26.63       0.42       (1.11     (0.69     (0.50     25.44          
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 28.72     $ 0.54     $ (1.47   $ (0.93   $ (0.69   $ 27.10          

6/30/2018

    26.83       0.53       1.85       2.38       (0.49     28.72          

6/30/2017

    22.74       0.49       4.03       4.52       (0.43     26.83          

6/30/2016

    25.95       0.44       (3.42     (2.98     (0.23     22.74          

6/30/2015

    27.11       0.43       (1.11     (0.68     (0.48     25.95          
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $ 28.57     $ 0.57     $ (1.48   $ (0.91   $ (0.70   $ 26.96          

6/30/2018

    26.69       0.62       1.76       2.38       (0.50     28.57          

6/30/2017

    22.69       0.60       3.90       4.50       (0.50     26.69          

12/14/2015* - 6/30/2016

    21.21       0.31       1.47       1.78       (0.30     22.69          

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

Commencement of operations.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the period.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the period and a sale of a share on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP. Total return for a period of less than one year is not annualized.

(c)

Annualized, unless otherwise noted.

 

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      Total Return (b)    

Net Assets,

End of Period

(000s)

   

Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with

Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement

    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
   

Ratio of Net
Investment
Income

to Average
Net Assets

    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                       
                         
          (3.29 )%    $ 48,388       1.26     1.61     2.08     101
          8.44         108,279       1.26       1.61       1.36       88  
          19.76       154,357       1.42       1.62       1.69       155  
          (11.73     143,677       1.48       1.62       1.59       85  
          (2.76     28,690       1.67       1.67       1.30       99  
                         
          (4.05 )%    $ 3,675       2.01     2.36     1.15     101
          7.63       8,113       2.01       2.36       0.55       88  
          18.91       8,982       2.17       2.37       0.80       155  
          (12.38     11,862       2.27       2.37       1.02       85  
          (3.53     15,069       2.42       2.42       0.53       99  
                         
          (3.05 )%    $ 20,454       1.01     1.36     2.08     101
          8.71       29,887       1.01       1.36       1.55       88  
          20.11       21,586       1.17       1.37       1.86       155  
          (11.51     20,262       1.26       1.37       2.11       85  
          (2.53     12,229       1.42       1.42       1.63       99  
                         
          (2.97 )%    $ 282,196       0.91     1.26     2.03     101
          8.79       197,536       0.91       1.26       1.74       88  
          20.26       72,688       1.07       1.27       2.02       155  
          (11.41     64,785       1.17       1.27       2.00       85  
          (2.45     62,339       1.32       1.32       1.60       99  
                         
          (2.93 )%    $ 23,647       0.86     1.21     2.13     101
          8.85       24,277       0.86       1.21       2.03       88  
          20.27       692       1.02       1.22       2.46       155  
          8.46       21       1.07 (c)      1.22 (c)      2.63 (c)      85  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Period ended:^

 

        
    
Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Period
    Net
Investment
Income
(Loss) (a)
   

Net Realized
and Change

in Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI Focused Growth:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   56.83     $   (0.08   $ 2.48     $ 2.40     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    46.62               10.92         10.92             (0.71        

6/30/2017

    40.72       0.06       6.85       6.91             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    42.73       0.08       0.62       0.70             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    41.93       (0.03     4.57       4.54         (0.17     (3.57        
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 39.41     $ (0.36   $ 1.27     $ 0.91     $     $   (5.90        

6/30/2018

    32.76       (0.29     7.65       7.36             (0.71        

6/30/2017

    29.12       (0.19     4.84       4.65             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    31.53       (0.17     0.47       0.30             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    31.96       (0.25     3.40       3.15       (0.01     (3.57        
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 43.54     $ (0.16   $ 1.54     $ 1.38     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    35.95       (0.11     8.41       8.30             (0.71        

6/30/2017

    31.71       (0.04     5.29       5.25             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    33.93       (0.02     0.51       0.49             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    34.08       (0.11     3.66       3.55       (0.13     (3.57        
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 44.18     $ 0.03     $ 1.60     $ 1.63     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    36.33       0.09       8.52       8.61       (0.05     (0.71        

6/30/2017

    31.88       0.14       5.32       5.46             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    33.94       0.15       0.50       0.65             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    34.09       0.06       3.66       3.72       (0.30     (3.57        
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 52.51     $ 0.09     $ 2.19     $ 2.28     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    43.02       0.16       10.08       10.24       (0.04     (0.71        

6/30/2017

    37.53       0.20       6.30       6.50             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    39.45       0.21       0.58       0.79             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    39.01       0.11       4.23       4.34       (0.33     (3.57        
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $ 52.56     $ 0.11     $ 2.19     $ 2.30     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    43.04       0.19       10.10       10.29       (0.06     (0.71        

6/30/2017

    37.53       0.21       6.31       6.52             (1.01        

12/14/2015* - 6/30/2016

    37.51       0.12       (0.10     0.02                      
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 49.33     $ (0.04   $ 1.97     $ 1.93     $     $ (5.90        

6/30/2018

    40.51       0.03       9.50       9.53             (0.71        

6/30/2017

    35.48       0.09       5.95       6.04             (1.01        

6/30/2016

    37.53       0.11       0.55       0.66             (2.71        

6/30/2015

    37.31       0.01       4.02       4.03       (0.24     (3.57        

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

Commencement of operations.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the period.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the period and a sale of a share on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP. Total return for a period of less than one year is not annualized.

(c)

Annualized, unless otherwise noted.

 

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Total

Dividends and

Distributions

    Net Asset
Value, End
of Period
    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Period
(000s)
   

Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with

Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement

    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income (Loss)
to Average
Net Assets
    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                                   
                                 
        $   (5.90   $   53.33       6.79   $   577,106       1.00     1.12     (0.15 )%      50
          (0.71     56.83       23.53       421,188       0.99       1.11             40  
          (1.01     46.62       17.29       373,359       1.05       1.11       0.15       46  
          (2.71     40.72       1.54       357,077       1.11       1.11       0.20       55  
          (3.74     42.73       11.57       297,572       1.11       1.11       (0.06     58  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 34.42       5.93   $ 48,706       1.77     1.87     (0.93 )%      50
          (0.71     39.41       22.59       233,854       1.76       1.86       (0.77     40  
          (1.01     32.76       16.40       217,685       1.81       1.86       (0.62     46  
          (2.71     29.12       0.79       230,432       1.86       1.86       (0.56     55  
          (3.58     31.53       10.76       227,519       1.86       1.86       (0.81     58  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 39.02       6.50   $ 22,511       1.27     1.37     (0.41 )%      50
          (0.71     43.54       23.21       23,781       1.26       1.36       (0.27     40  
          (1.01     35.95       16.96       20,635       1.31       1.36       (0.11     46  
          (2.71     31.71       1.31       17,877       1.36       1.36       (0.05     55  
          (3.70     33.93       11.32       14,751       1.36       1.36       (0.31     58  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 39.91       7.01   $ 91,265       0.77     0.87     0.09     50
          (0.76     44.18       23.84       109,456       0.76       0.86       0.23       40  
          (1.01     36.33       17.54       80,667       0.81       0.86       0.41       46  
          (2.71     31.88       1.81       35,025       0.86       0.86       0.46       55  
          (3.87     33.94       11.88       16,050       0.86       0.86       0.19       58  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 48.89       7.15   $ 162,173       0.67     0.77     0.18     50
          (0.75     52.51       23.93       177,278       0.66       0.76       0.33       40  
          (1.01     43.02       17.67       195,161       0.71       0.76       0.50       46  
          (2.71     37.53       1.92       155,976       0.76       0.76       0.55       55  
          (3.90     39.45       11.99       122,979       0.76       0.76       0.29       58  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 48.96       7.18   $ 134,485       0.62     0.72     0.23     50
          (0.77     52.56       24.03       114,054       0.61       0.71       0.38       40  
          (1.01     43.04       17.72       36,374       0.66       0.71       0.53       46  
                37.53       0.05       11,564       0.71 (c)      0.71 (c)      0.60 (c)      55  
                                 
        $ (5.90   $ 45.36       6.88   $ 5,138       0.92     1.02     (0.08 )%      50
          (0.71     49.33       23.63       4,017       0.91       1.01       0.07       40  
          (1.01     40.51       17.39       4,288       0.96       1.01       0.25       46  
          (2.71     35.48       1.65       7,900       1.01       1.01       0.29       55  
          (3.81     37.53       11.67       6,439       1.01       1.01       0.04       58  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
        
Net
Investment
Income
(Loss) (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Year
        
AllianzGI Global Natural Resources:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   15.95     $ 0.27     $ (1.78   $ (1.51   $ (0.24   $ 14.20          

6/30/2018

    13.77       0.13       2.08       2.21       (0.03     15.95          

6/30/2017

    14.67       0.01       (0.78     (0.77     (0.13     13.77          

6/30/2016

    16.66       0.05       (1.97     (1.92     (0.07     14.67          

6/30/2015

    20.71       0.06       (4.11     (4.05           16.66          
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.90     $ 0.15     $ (1.64   $ (1.49   $   (0.12   $ 13.29          

6/30/2018

    12.93       0.02       1.95       1.97               14.90          

6/30/2017

    13.77         (0.10       (0.74       (0.84           12.93          

6/30/2016

    15.67       (0.06     (1.84     (1.90           13.77          

6/30/2015

    19.63       (0.07     (3.89     (3.96           15.67          
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 16.25     $ 0.29     $ (1.79   $ (1.50   $ (0.31   $ 14.44          

6/30/2018

    13.96       0.18       2.11       2.29             16.25          

6/30/2017

    14.86       0.03       (0.78     (0.75     (0.15     13.96          

6/30/2016

    16.87       0.09       (1.99     (1.90     (0.11     14.86          

6/30/2015

    20.98       0.13       (4.20     (4.07     (0.04     16.87          
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 16.39     $ 0.33     $ (1.84   $ (1.51   $ (0.30   $ 14.58          

6/30/2018

    14.12       0.19       2.14       2.33       (0.06     16.39          

6/30/2017

    14.99       0.07       (0.81     (0.74     (0.13     14.12          

6/30/2016

    17.00       0.09       (1.99     (1.90     (0.11     14.99          

6/30/2015

    21.10       0.12       (4.19     (4.07     (0.03     17.00          

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests.

 

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      Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
   

Ratio of

Expenses
to Average
Net Assets

    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income (Loss)
to Average
Net Assets
   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                 
                     
          (9.24 )%    $ 5,466       1.43 %(c)      1.91 %(c)      76
          16.05       7,812       1.43 (c)      0.84 (c)      113  
          (5.37     11,135       1.42 (c)      0.08 (c)      108  
          (11.44     14,175       1.42 (c)      0.34 (c)      177  
          (19.56     11,395       1.41       0.32       107  
                     
          (9.90 )%    $ 1,154       2.18 %(c)      1.10 %(c)      76
          15.24       2,102       2.18 (c)      0.13 (c)      113  
          (6.07     2,896       2.17 (c)      (0.70 )(c)      108  
          (12.13     4,200       2.17 (c)      (0.43 )(c)      177  
          (20.17     4,579       2.16       (0.42     107  
                     
          (8.94 )%    $ 600       1.18 %(c)      1.93 %(c)      76
          16.40       2,435       1.18 (c)      1.20 (c)      113  
          (5.18     1,970       1.17 (c)      0.19 (c)      108  
          (11.20     8,025       1.17 (c)      0.61 (c)      177  
          (19.38     8,128       1.16       0.73       107  
                     
          (8.92 )%    $ 5,009       1.08 %(c)      2.21 %(c)      76
          16.48       8,313       1.08 (c)      1.24 (c)      113  
          (5.07     10,068       1.07 (c)      0.43 (c)      108  
          (11.12     17,671       1.07 (c)      0.64 (c)      177  
          (19.28       30,751       1.06       0.67       107  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

        
Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
    Net
Investment
Income
(Loss) (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI Global Small-Cap:                                    
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 51.40     $ (0.14   $ (3.88   $ (4.02   $     $ (8.01        

6/30/2018

    47.75       (0.26     8.28       8.02       (0.10     (4.27        

6/30/2017

    41.18       (0.14     6.71       6.57                      

6/30/2016

    45.05       (0.13     (3.74     (3.87                    

6/30/2015

    43.12       (0.19     2.12       1.93                      
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $   45.13     $   (0.45   $   (3.57   $   (4.02   $     $ (8.01        

6/30/2018

    42.62       (0.57     7.35       6.78             (4.27        

6/30/2017

    37.03       (0.42     6.01       5.59                      

6/30/2016

    40.81       (0.41     (3.37     (3.78                    

6/30/2015

    39.36       (0.46     1.91       1.45                      
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 54.57     $ (0.06   $ (3.99   $ (4.05   $     $   (8.01        

6/30/2018

    50.40       (0.15     8.75       8.60         (0.16     (4.27        

6/30/2017

    43.36       0.02       7.02       7.04                      

6/30/2016

    47.30       (0.05     (3.89     (3.94                    

6/30/2015

    45.17       (0.06     2.19       2.13                      
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 55.01     $ 0.01     $ (4.04   $ (4.03   $     $ (8.01        

6/30/2018

    50.77       (0.09     8.81       8.72       (0.21     (4.27        

6/30/2017

    43.63       0.02       7.12       7.14                      

6/30/2016

    47.55       0.02       (3.94     (3.92                    

6/30/2015

    45.37       (0.05     2.23       2.18                      

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Payments from Affiliates increased the end of period net asset value and total return by less than $0.01 and 0.01%, respectively.

 

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Total

Dividends and

Distributions

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Year

    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses
to Average
Net Assets
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income (Loss)
to Average
Net Assets
   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                             
                             
        $ (8.01   $ 39.37       (4.64 )%    $ 46,947       1.62     (0.34 )%      85
            (4.37       51.40(c     17.08 (c)      56,929       1.62       (0.51     77  
                47.75(c     15.96 (c)      56,686       1.61       (0.32     80  
                41.18       (8.59     68,625       1.61       (0.31     87  
                45.05       4.48       57,590       1.61       (0.45     64  
                             
        $ (8.01   $ 33.10       (5.37 )%    $ 7,354       2.37     (1.18 )%      85
          (4.27     45.13(c     16.21 (c)      19,630       2.37       (1.25     77  
                42.62(c     15.10 (c)      19,729       2.36       (1.06     80  
                37.03       (9.26     23,055       2.36       (1.09     87  
                40.81       3.69       25,959       2.36       (1.19     64  
                             
        $ (8.01   $ 42.51       (4.40 )%    $ 11,675       1.37     (0.13 )%      85
          (4.43     54.57(c     17.36 (c)      18,262       1.37       (0.27     77  
                50.40(c     16.24 (c)      23,214       1.36       0.03       80  
                43.36       (8.33     20,921       1.36       (0.11     87  
                47.30       4.72       26,662       1.36       (0.14     64  
                             
        $ (8.01   $ 42.97       (4.32 )%    $ 67,916       1.27     0.01     85
          (4.48     55.01(c     17.48 (c)      98,623       1.27       (0.17     77  
                50.77(c     16.36 (c)        114,925       1.26       0.05       80  
                43.63       (8.25     122,294       1.26       0.06       87  
                47.55       4.80       80,319       1.26       (0.12     64  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Period ended:^

 

        
Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Period
    Net
Investment
Income
(Loss) (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI Health Sciences:                                    
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 33.27     $ 0.02     $ 3.57     $ 3.59     $ (0.31   $ (4.28        

6/30/2018

    31.61       (0.02     1.68       1.66                      

6/30/2017

    27.77       (0.01     3.85       3.84                      

6/30/2016

    38.48       (0.02     (3.87     (3.89           (6.82        

6/30/2015

    33.91       (0.26     9.79       9.53             (4.96        
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.43     $ (0.19   $ 2.75     $ 2.56     $     $ (4.28        

6/30/2018

    25.30       (0.21     1.34       1.13                      

6/30/2017

      22.40         (0.18     3.08       2.90                      

6/30/2016

    32.67       (0.28       (3.17       (3.45           (6.82        

6/30/2015

    29.66       (0.45     8.42       7.97             (4.96        
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 33.69     $ 0.13     $ 3.63     $ 3.76     $   (0.41   $   (4.28        

6/30/2018

    31.90       0.10       1.69       1.79                      

6/30/2017

    27.93       0.09       3.88       3.97                      

6/30/2016

    38.53       0.04       (3.82     (3.78           (6.82        

12/22/2014* - 6/30/2015

    33.09       (0.04     5.48       5.44                      

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

Commencement of operations.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the period.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the period and a sale of a share on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP. Total return for a period of less than one year is not annualized.

(c)

Annualized, unless otherwise noted.

 

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Total

Dividends and

Distributions

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Period

    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Period
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses
to Average
Net Assets
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income (Loss)
to Average
Net Assets
   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                             
                             
        $ (4.59   $ 32.27       13.14   $ 147,068       1.47     0.06     102
                33.27       5.25         141,122       1.47       (0.05     55  
                31.61       13.83       150,756       1.46       (0.04     82  
          (6.82     27.77       (10.82     167,724       1.47       (0.07     113  
          (4.96     38.48       30.53       45,093       1.46       (0.72     76  
                             
        $   (4.28   $ 24.71       12.34   $ 4,131       2.22     (0.75 )%      102
                26.43       4.47       8,218       2.22       (0.81     55  
                25.30       12.95       10,358       2.21       (0.79     82  
          (6.82     22.40       (11.48     13,446       2.22       (1.07     113  
          (4.96     32.67       29.57       20,902       2.21       (1.46     76  
                             
        $ (4.69   $ 32.76       13.54   $ 4,290       1.12     0.39     102
                  33.69       5.61       2,854       1.12       0.29       55  
                31.90       14.21       3,692       1.11       0.31       82  
          (6.82     27.93       (10.49     1,977       1.12       0.14       113  
                38.53       16.44       1,240       1.10 (c)      (0.21 )(c)      76  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

        
    
Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI Income & Growth:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 11.34     $ 0.20     $ 0.38     $ 0.58     $ (0.25   $ (0.66        

6/30/2018

      11.24         0.23         0.82       1.05       (0.28     (0.67        

6/30/2017

    10.80       0.27       1.17       1.44       (0.32     (0.68        

6/30/2016

    12.12       0.28       (0.55       (0.27       (0.37       (0.68        

6/30/2015

    12.95       0.27       (0.05     0.22       (0.26     (0.79        
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 10.46     $ 0.11     $ 0.34     $ 0.45     $ (0.18   $ (0.66        

6/30/2018

    10.44       0.13       0.76       0.89       (0.20     (0.67        

6/30/2017

    10.10       0.18       1.09       1.27       (0.25     (0.68        

6/30/2016

    11.46       0.19       (0.53     (0.34     (0.34     (0.68        

6/30/2015

    12.38       0.17       (0.06     0.11       (0.24     (0.79        
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 11.34     $ 0.17     $ 0.38     $ 0.55     $ (0.22   $ (0.66        

6/30/2018

    11.24       0.20       0.82       1.02       (0.25     (0.67        

6/30/2017

    10.80       0.25       1.16       1.41       (0.29     (0.68        

6/30/2016

    12.14       0.26       (0.56     (0.30     (0.36     (0.68        

6/30/2015

    13.00       0.24       (0.05     0.19       (0.26     (0.79        
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 11.61     $ 0.23     $ 0.38     $ 0.61     $ (0.27   $ (0.66        

6/30/2018

    11.48       0.26       0.84       1.10       (0.30     (0.67        

6/30/2017

    11.01       0.31       1.19       1.50       (0.35     (0.68        

6/30/2016

    12.32       0.32       (0.57     (0.25     (0.38     (0.68        

6/30/2015

    13.12       0.31       (0.05     0.26       (0.27     (0.79        
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 11.72     $ 0.25     $ 0.38     $ 0.63     $ (0.28   $ (0.66        

6/30/2018

    11.58       0.28       0.84       1.12       (0.31     (0.67        

6/30/2017

    11.09       0.32       1.21       1.53       (0.36     (0.68        

6/30/2016

    12.40       0.33       (0.57     (0.24     (0.39     (0.68        

6/30/2015

    13.19       0.32       (0.05     0.27       (0.27     (0.79        

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Payments from Affiliates increased the end of year net asset value and total return by less than $0.01 and 0.01%, respectively.

 

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      Total
Dividends and
Distributions
   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Year

    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
   

Ratio of

Expenses to

Average Net

Assets with

Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement

   

Ratio of

Expenses to

Average Net

Assets without

Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of Net
Investment
Income

to Average
Net Assets

   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                                   
                                 
        $ (0.91   $ 11.01 (c)      5.45 (c)%    $ 1,458,642       1.28     1.29     1.84     66
          (0.95     11.34       9.58         1,250,639       1.28       1.29       1.99       102  
          (1.00       11.24       13.88       1,091,888       1.29       1.29       2.45       159  
          (1.05     10.80       (2.02     1,009,542       1.34       1.34       2.56       94  
          (1.05     12.12       1.80       897,530       1.32       1.32       2.16       84  
                                 
        $ (0.84   $ 10.07 (c)      4.60 (c)%    $ 1,234,667       2.03     2.04     1.09     66
          (0.87     10.46       8.78       1,116,788       2.03       2.04       1.24       102  
          (0.93     10.44       13.08       1,090,887       2.04       2.04       1.70       159  
          (1.02     10.10       (2.79     1,159,303       2.09       2.09       1.81       94  
          (1.03     11.46       0.95       1,195,391       2.07       2.07       1.41       84  
                                 
        $ (0.88   $ 11.01 (c)      5.19 (c)%    $ 4,873       1.53     1.54     1.60     66
          (0.92     11.34       9.32       3,150       1.53       1.54       1.73       102  
          (0.97     11.24       13.59       1,781       1.54       1.54       2.20       159  
          (1.04     10.80       (2.31     2,261       1.59       1.59       2.30       94  
          (1.05     12.14       1.49       2,543       1.57       1.57       1.89       84  
                                 
        $ (0.93   $ 11.29 (c)      5.64 (c)%    $ 1,122,083       1.03     1.04     2.09     66
          (0.97     11.61       9.90       897,716       1.03       1.04       2.24       102  
            (1.03     11.48       14.14       690,147       1.04       1.04       2.69       159  
          (1.06     11.01       (1.81     560,425       1.09       1.09       2.81       94  
          (1.06     12.32       2.07       676,865       1.07       1.07       2.42       84  
                                 
        $ (0.94   $ 11.41 (c)      5.78 (c)%    $ 702,741       0.93     0.94     2.19     66
          (0.98     11.72       10.00       460,024       0.93       0.94       2.34       102  
          (1.04     11.58       14.33       342,652       0.94       0.94       2.76       159  
          (1.07     11.09       (1.76     181,890       0.99       0.99       2.91       94  
          (1.06     12.40       2.17       190,675       0.97       0.97       2.51       84  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

   

Net Asset

Value,

Beginning

of Year

   

Net

Investment

Income

(Loss) (a)

   

    

Net Realized

and Change

in Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

   

Total from

Investment

Operations

   

Distributions

from Net

Realized Capital

Gains

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Year

        
AllianzGI Mid-Cap:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 3.88     $ (0.02   $ 0.37     $ 0.35     $ (0.48   $ 3.75          

6/30/2018

    3.74       (0.02     0.54       0.52       (0.38     3.88          

6/30/2017

    3.40       (0.01     0.62       0.61       (0.27     3.74          

6/30/2016

    3.65       (0.01     (0.03     (0.04     (0.21     3.40          

6/30/2015

    3.92       (0.01     0.28       0.27       (0.54     3.65          
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 3.23     $ (0.04   $ 0.27     $ 0.23     $ (0.48   $ 2.98          

6/30/2018

    3.19       (0.04     0.46       0.42       (0.38     3.23          

6/30/2017

    2.96       (0.04     0.54       0.50       (0.27     3.19          

6/30/2016

    3.22       (0.03     (0.02     (0.05     (0.21     2.96          

6/30/2015

    3.55       (0.04     0.25       0.21       (0.54     3.22          
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 3.82     $ (0.03   $ 0.35     $ 0.32     $ (0.48   $ 3.66          

6/30/2018

    3.69       (0.03     0.54       0.51       (0.38     3.82          

6/30/2017

    3.37       (0.02     0.61       0.59       (0.27     3.69          

6/30/2016

    3.62       (0.02     (0.02     (0.04     (0.21     3.37          

6/30/2015

    3.91       (0.02     0.27       0.25       (0.54     3.62          
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 4.41     $ (0.02   $ 0.45     $ 0.43     $ (0.48   $ 4.36          

6/30/2018

    4.19       (0.01     0.61       0.60       (0.38     4.41          

6/30/2017

    3.77       (0.01     0.70       0.69       (0.27     4.19          

6/30/2016

    4.01             (0.03     (0.03     (0.21     3.77          

6/30/2015

    4.24             0.31       0.31       (0.54     4.01          
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 4.43     $ (0.01   $ 0.45     $ 0.44     $ (0.48   $ 4.39          

6/30/2018

    4.21       (0.01     0.61       0.60       (0.38     4.43          

6/30/2017

    3.78             0.70       0.70       (0.27     4.21          

6/30/2016

    4.02             (0.03     (0.03     (0.21     3.78          

6/30/2015

    4.25             0.31       0.31       (0.54     4.02          
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $   4.11     $   (0.02   $ 0.40     $ 0.38     $ (0.48   $ 4.01          

6/30/2018

    3.94       (0.02     0.57       0.55       (0.38     4.11          

6/30/2017

    3.56       (0.01     0.66       0.65       (0.27     3.94          

6/30/2016

    3.80       (0.01       (0.02       (0.03       (0.21       3.56          

6/30/2015

    4.06       (0.01     0.29       0.28       (0.54     3.80          

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

 

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       Total Return (b)    

Net Assets,

End of Year

(000s)

   

Ratio of

Expenses

to Average

Net Assets

   

Ratio of Net

Investment

Income (Loss)

to Average

Net Assets

   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                 
                     
          13.58   $   240,017       1.14     (0.66 )%      60
          14.14       116,673       1.13       (0.48     79  
          18.89       112,947       1.13       (0.40     77  
          (1.05     86,224       1.13       (0.26     73  
          7.91       98,253       1.13       (0.38     79  
                     
          12.56   $ 21,251       1.89     (1.34 )%      60
          13.40       142,931       1.88       (1.23     79  
          17.95       142,565       1.88       (1.15     77  
          (1.51     162,104       1.88       (1.01     73  
          6.98       183,765       1.88       (1.13     79  
                     
          12.97   $ 1,384       1.39     (0.89 )%      60
          14.03       1,463       1.38       (0.72     79  
          18.45       2,345       1.38       (0.65     77  
          (1.05     2,195       1.38       (0.51     73  
          7.38       2,867       1.38       (0.63     79  
                     
          13.79   $ 11,617       0.89     (0.39 )%      60
          14.56       11,189       0.88       (0.23     79  
          19.18       8,604       0.88       (0.15     77  
          (0.69     2,009       0.88       (0.01     73  
          8.31       2,010       0.88       (0.12     79  
                     
          13.97   $ 36,373       0.79     (0.29 )%      60
          14.47       31,876       0.78       (0.13     79  
          19.39       26,788       0.78       (0.05     77  
          (0.69     29,092       0.78       0.11       73  
          8.29       24,130       0.78       (0.04     79  
                     
          13.61   $ 1,525       1.04     (0.54 )%      60
          14.19       1,441       1.03       (0.40     79  
          19.19       575       1.03       (0.30     77  
          (0.73     488       1.03       (0.16     73  
          7.88       532       1.03       (0.28     79  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

   

Net Asset

Value,

Beginning

of Year

   

Net

Investment

Income (a)

   

    

    

Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

   

Total from

Investment

Operations

   

Dividends

from Net

Investment
Income

   

Distributions

from Net

Realized Capital

Gains

        
AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.76     $ 0.26     $ (0.05   $ 0.21     $ (0.26   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.20       0.27       1.45       1.72       (0.28     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.74       0.34       2.08       2.42       (0.37     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.68       0.37       (0.92     (0.55     (0.39              

6/30/2015

    17.12       0.33       (0.44     (0.11     (0.33              
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.92     $ 0.17     $ (0.05   $ 0.12     $ (0.12   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.34       0.15       1.46       1.61       (0.15     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.86       0.21       2.10       2.31       (0.24     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.83       0.25       (0.93     (0.68     (0.29              

6/30/2015

    17.27       0.20       (0.43     (0.23     (0.21              
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.71     $ 0.23     $ (0.05   $ 0.18     $ (0.19   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.15       0.23       1.45       1.68       (0.24     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.70       0.29       2.08       2.37       (0.33     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.65       0.33       (0.92     (0.59     (0.36              

6/30/2015

    17.09       0.28       (0.43     (0.15     (0.29              
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.87     $ 0.30     $ (0.05   $ 0.25     $ (0.31   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.30       0.32       1.45       1.77       (0.32     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.83       0.38       2.09       2.47       (0.41     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.77       0.41       (0.93     (0.52     (0.42              

6/30/2015

    17.21       0.37       (0.43     (0.06     (0.38              
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.87     $ 0.31     $ (0.05   $ 0.26     $ (0.33   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.30       0.34       1.45       1.79       (0.34     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.82       0.41       2.08       2.49       (0.42     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.76       0.42       (0.93     (0.51     (0.43              

6/30/2015

    17.20       0.39       (0.43     (0.04     (0.40              
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $ 14.83     $ 0.31     $ (0.04   $ 0.27     $ (0.35   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.27       0.34       1.45       1.79       (0.35     (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.80       0.41       2.09       2.50       (0.44     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.74       0.42       (0.92     (0.50     (0.44              

6/30/2015

    17.19       0.39       (0.42     (0.03     (0.42              
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $   15.04     $   0.28     $   (0.05   $ 0.23     $ (0.26   $ (2.60        

6/30/2018

    17.41       0.32       1.43       1.75       (0.24       (3.88        

6/30/2017

    15.92       0.36       2.11       2.47       (0.39     (0.59        

6/30/2016

    16.87       0.39       (0.94       (0.55       (0.40              

6/30/2015

    17.31       0.35       (0.44     (0.09     (0.35              

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

 

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Total

Dividends and

Distributions

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Year

    Total Return (b)    

Net Assets,

End of Year

(000s)

   

Ratio of

Expenses to

Average Net
Assets with

Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of

Expenses to

Average Net

Assets without

Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of Net

Investment

Income

to Average

Net Assets

   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                                   
                                 
        $   (2.86   $   12.11       4.39   $ 453,255       1.01     1.11     1.97     52
          (4.16     14.76       9.55       480,068       0.95       1.10       1.66       47  
          (0.96     17.20       15.55       599,510       0.99       1.09       2.02       41  
          (0.39     15.74       (3.25     814,993       1.07       1.07       2.34       42  
          (0.33     16.68       (0.65     1,363,171       1.05       1.05       1.92       44  
                                 
        $ (2.72   $ 12.32       3.56   $ 75,395       1.76     1.86     1.23     52
          (4.03     14.92       8.77       231,933       1.70       1.85       0.91       47  
          (0.83     17.34       14.67       274,212       1.74       1.84       1.28       41  
          (0.29     15.86       (3.97     347,825       1.82       1.82       1.59       42  
          (0.21     16.83       (1.38     440,554       1.80       1.80       1.18       44  
                                 
        $ (2.79   $ 12.10       4.07   $ 73,610       1.26     1.36     1.72     52
          (4.12     14.71       9.30       94,437       1.20       1.35       1.41       47  
          (0.92     17.15       15.24       130,630       1.24       1.34       1.77       41  
          (0.36     15.70       (3.50     157,199       1.32       1.32       2.09       42  
          (0.29     16.65       (0.89     226,101       1.30       1.30       1.68       44  
                                 
        $ (2.91   $ 12.21       4.62   $ 378,642       0.76     0.86     2.22     52
          (4.20     14.87       9.83       551,096       0.70       0.85       1.91       47  
          (1.00     17.30       15.79       639,847       0.74       0.84       2.27       41  
          (0.42     15.83       (3.03     1,057,863       0.82       0.82       2.60       42  
          (0.38     16.77       (0.38     1,543,701       0.80       0.80       2.18       44  
                                 
        $ (2.93   $ 12.20       4.75   $ 263,357       0.66     0.76     2.32     52
          (4.22     14.87       9.94       438,422       0.60       0.75       2.03       47  
          (1.01     17.30       15.96       731,788       0.64       0.74       2.44       41  
          (0.43     15.82       (2.95       2,233,140       0.72       0.72       2.69       42  
          (0.40     16.76       (0.29     3,402,951       0.70       0.70       2.27       44  
                                 
        $ (2.95   $ 12.15       4.82   $ 65,935       0.61     0.71     2.38     52
          (4.23     14.83       9.96       85,285       0.55       0.70       2.06       47  
          (1.03     17.27       16.01       95,755       0.59       0.69       2.44       41  
          (0.44     15.80       (2.90     128,994       0.67       0.67       2.72       42  
          (0.42     16.74       (0.22     119,483       0.65       0.65       2.30       44  
                                 
        $ (2.86   $ 12.41       4.42   $ 47,049       0.91     1.01     2.07     52
          (4.12     15.04       9.67       84,009       0.85       1.00       1.87       47  
          (0.98     17.41       15.68       345,533       0.89       0.99       2.11       41  
          (0.40     15.92       (3.19     387,993       0.97       0.97       2.44       42  
          (0.35     16.87       (0.55     628,008       0.95       0.95       2.03       44  

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
        
    
Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
    Distributions
from Return
of Capital
        
AllianzGI NFJ International Value:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.52     $ 0.33     $ (0.08   $ 0.25     $ (0.30   $          

6/30/2018

    18.13       0.34       0.38       0.72       (0.32     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.32       0.34       1.92       2.26       (0.45              

6/30/2016

    21.61       0.37       (5.15     (4.78     (0.51              

6/30/2015

    24.17       0.41       (2.40     (1.99     (0.57              
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.20     $ 0.17     $ (0.04   $ 0.13     $ (0.18   $          

6/30/2018

    17.86       0.19       0.37       0.56       (0.21     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.09       0.23       1.86       2.09       (0.32              

6/30/2016

    21.37       0.24       (5.08     (4.84     (0.44              

6/30/2015

    23.91       0.24       (2.37     (2.13     (0.41              
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.56     $ 0.29     $ (0.07   $ 0.22     $ (0.26   $          

6/30/2018

    18.15       0.31       0.35       0.66       (0.24       (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.35       0.33       1.88       2.21       (0.41              

6/30/2016

    21.66       0.35       (5.17     (4.82     (0.49              

6/30/2015

    24.23       0.37       (2.41     (2.04     (0.53              
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.61     $ 0.35     $ (0.04   $ 0.31     $ (0.34   $          

6/30/2018

    18.21       0.36       0.41       0.77       (0.36     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.40       0.40       1.90       2.30       (0.49              

6/30/2016

    21.70       0.43       (5.18     (4.75     (0.55              

6/30/2015

    24.28       0.48       (2.41     (1.93     (0.65              
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.64     $ 0.41     $ (0.08   $ 0.33     $ (0.37   $          

6/30/2018

    18.24       0.42       0.36       0.78       (0.37     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.42       0.37       1.95       2.32       (0.50              

6/30/2016

    21.71       0.40       (5.13     (4.73     (0.56              

6/30/2015

    24.29       0.50       (2.42     (1.92     (0.66              
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $ 18.63     $ 0.37     $ (0.04   $ 0.33     $ (0.37   $          

6/30/2018

    18.19       0.29       0.50       0.79       (0.34     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.38       0.40       1.93       2.33       (0.52              

6/30/2016

    21.68       0.48       (5.20     (4.72     (0.58              

6/30/2015

    24.28       0.55       (2.46     (1.91     (0.69              
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $   18.56     $   0.29     $    0.01     $    0.30     $   (0.32   $       —          

6/30/2018

    18.19       0.38       0.35       0.73       (0.35     (0.01        

6/30/2017

    16.37       0.36       1.92       2.28       (0.46              

6/30/2016

    21.68       0.42       (5.20     (4.78     (0.53              

6/30/2015

    24.25       0.45       (2.41     (1.96     (0.61              

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

 

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       Total
Dividends and
Distributions
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Year
    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income
to Average
Net Assets
    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                                   
                                 
        $ (0.30   $ 18.47       1.44   $ 71,931       1.30     1.38     1.84     49
          (0.33     18.52       3.95       88,385       1.29       1.37       1.76       63  
          (0.45     18.13       13.99       127,642       1.30       1.35       2.01       63  
          (0.51     16.32       (22.28     258,429       1.29       1.32       2.04       50  
          (0.57     21.61       (8.30     466,262       1.27       1.30       1.83       54  
                                 
        $ (0.18   $ 18.15       0.76   $ 13,926       2.05     2.13     0.98     49
          (0.22     18.20       3.11       36,184       2.04       2.12       0.99       63  
          (0.32     17.86       13.10       54,546       2.05       2.10       1.37       63  
          (0.44     16.09       (22.81     83,722       2.04       2.07       1.33       50  
          (0.41     21.37       (8.99     154,476       2.02       2.05       1.09       54  
                                 
        $ (0.26   $ 18.52       1.23   $ 6,108       1.55     1.63     1.58     49
          (0.25     18.56       3.64       9,190       1.54       1.62       1.58       63  
          (0.41     18.15       13.68       11,300       1.55       1.60       1.91       63  
          (0.49     16.35       (22.43     13,915       1.54       1.57       1.89       50  
          (0.53     21.66       (8.52     22,511       1.52       1.55       1.63       54  
                                 
        $ (0.34   $ 18.58       1.76   $ 38,655       1.05     1.13     1.93     49
          (0.37     18.61       4.17       89,644       1.04       1.12       1.87       63  
          (0.49     18.21       14.20       148,540       1.05       1.10       2.34       63  
          (0.55     16.40       (22.07     350,745       1.04       1.07       2.34       50  
          (0.65     21.70       (8.04     659,204       1.02       1.05       2.15       54  
                                 
        $ (0.37   $ 18.60       1.84   $ 46,473       0.95     1.03     2.24     49
          (0.38     18.64       4.27       55,924       0.94       1.02       2.14       63  
          (0.50     18.24       14.33       74,272       0.95       1.00       2.18       63  
          (0.56     16.42       (21.97     309,622       0.94       0.97       2.17       50  
          (0.66     21.71       (7.98       1,095,977       0.92       0.95       2.21       54  
                                 
        $ (0.37   $ 18.59       1.88   $ 1,277       0.90     0.98     2.07     49
          (0.35     18.63       4.31       1,836       0.89       0.97       1.48       63  
          (0.52     18.19       14.42       28,460       0.90       0.95       2.33       63  
          (0.58     16.38       (21.97     55,751       0.89       0.92       2.64       50  
          (0.69     21.68       (7.94     66,164       0.87       0.90       2.51       54  
                                 
        $   (0.32   $   18.54       1.68   $ 1,436       1.20     1.28     1.60     49
          (0.36     18.56       4.01       4,829       1.19       1.27       1.96       63  
          (0.46     18.19       14.09       4,973       1.20       1.25       2.08       63  
          (0.53     16.37       (22.22     14,487       1.19       1.22       2.31       50  
          (0.61     21.68       (8.18     19,020       1.17       1.20       2.00       54  

 

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Financial Highlights (cont’d)

For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
        
    
Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   26.14     $   0.41     $ 0.79     $ 1.20     $   (0.39   $   (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.31       0.41       1.83       2.24       (0.41              

6/30/2017

    20.34       0.36       3.97 (c)      4.33       (0.36              

6/30/2016

    21.44       0.37         (1.09       (0.72     (0.38              

6/30/2015

    21.13       0.35       0.30       0.65       (0.34              
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.44     $ 0.19     $ 0.81     $ 1.00     $ (0.16   $ (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.57       0.22       1.86       2.08       (0.21              

6/30/2017

    20.50       0.19       4.01 (c)      4.20       (0.13              

6/30/2016

    21.57       0.22       (1.09     (0.87     (0.20              

6/30/2015

    21.22       0.19       0.30       0.49       (0.14              
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.41     $ 0.34     $ 0.80     $ 1.14     $ (0.32   $ (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.55       0.35       1.85       2.20       (0.34              

6/30/2017

    20.51       0.30       4.02 (c)      4.32       (0.28              

6/30/2016

    21.60       0.32       (1.09     (0.77     (0.32              

6/30/2015

    21.26       0.30       0.30       0.60       (0.26              
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.38     $ 0.48     $ 0.81     $ 1.29     $ (0.46   $ (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.53       0.47       1.86       2.33       (0.48              

6/30/2017

    20.56       0.42       4.01 (c)      4.43       (0.46              

6/30/2016

    21.68       0.42       (1.09     (0.67     (0.45              

6/30/2015

    21.42       0.41       0.31       0.72       (0.46              
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.02     $ 0.50     $ 0.79     $ 1.29     $ (0.49   $ (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.20       0.49       1.84       2.33       (0.51              

6/30/2017

    20.27       0.43       3.97 (c)      4.40       (0.47              

6/30/2016

    21.39       0.44       (1.09     (0.65     (0.47              

6/30/2015

    21.13       0.42       0.31       0.73       (0.47              
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 26.51     $ 0.45     $ 0.80     $ 1.25     $ (0.42   $ (0.05        

6/30/2018

    24.64       0.43       1.88       2.31       (0.44              

6/30/2017

    20.61       0.38       4.04 (c)      4.42       (0.39              

6/30/2016

    21.73       0.39       (1.10     (0.71     (0.41              

6/30/2015

    21.26       0.39       0.29       0.68       (0.21              

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Payments from securities litigation increased net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss) and net asset value per share by approximately $0.65 for Class A; $0.68 for Class C; $0.71 for Class R; $0.75 for Class P; $0.57 for Institutional Class and $0.65 for Administrative Class. The increase in total return per class was approximately 3.24% for Class A; 3.33% for Class C; 3.50% for Class R; 3.72% for Class P; 2.87% for Institutional Class and 3.21% for Administrative Class.

 

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       Total
Dividends and
Distributions
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Year
    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income
to Average
Net Assets
    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                                   
                                 
        $ (0.44   $ 26.90       4.67   $ 178,311       1.12     1.12     1.57     68
          (0.41     26.14       9.27       145,338       1.06       1.11       1.56       110  
          (0.36     24.31 (c)      21.42 (c)      151,306       1.02       1.12       1.60       67  
          (0.38     20.34       (3.30     150,436       1.11       1.11       1.82       51  
          (0.34     21.44       3.06       145,039       1.11       1.11       1.63       26  
                                 
        $ (0.21   $ 27.23       3.82   $ 12,080       1.87     1.87     0.70     68
          (0.21     26.44       8.49       62,232       1.81       1.86       0.82       110  
          (0.13     24.57 (c)      20.52 (c)      70,159       1.77       1.87       0.86       67  
          (0.20     20.50       (4.04     79,758       1.86       1.86       1.06       51  
          (0.14     21.57       2.28       94,367       1.86       1.86       0.88       26  
                                 
        $ (0.37   $ 27.18       4.37   $ 2,090       1.37     1.37     1.24     68
          (0.34     26.41       9.00       5,200       1.31       1.36       1.35       110  
          (0.28     24.55 (c)      21.14 (c)      6,997       1.27       1.37       1.35       67  
          (0.32     20.51       (3.53     7,200       1.36       1.36       1.56       51  
          (0.26     21.60       2.80       8,641       1.36       1.36       1.39       26  
                                 
        $ (0.51   $ 27.16       4.95   $ 19,097       0.87     0.87     1.80     68
          (0.48     26.38       9.54       20,242       0.81       0.86       1.80       110  
          (0.46     24.53 (c)      21.71 (c)      18,164       0.77       0.87       1.85       67  
          (0.45     20.56       (3.06     14,197       0.86       0.86       2.06       51  
          (0.46     21.68       3.35       17,699       0.86       0.86       1.88       26  
                                 
        $ (0.54   $ 26.77       5.02   $ 132,572       0.77     0.77     1.91     68
          (0.51     26.02       9.66       127,728       0.71       0.76       1.89       110  
          (0.47     24.20 (c)      21.88 (c)      114,377       0.67       0.77       1.95       67  
          (0.47     20.27       (2.99       150,909       0.76       0.76       2.18       51  
          (0.47     21.39       3.44       312,294       0.76       0.76       1.97       26  
                                 
        $   (0.47   $   27.29       4.77   $ 1,381       1.02     1.02     1.66     68
          (0.44     26.51       9.40       1,323       0.96       1.01       1.64       110  
          (0.39     24.64 (c)      21.58 (c)      1,272       0.92       1.02       1.71       67  
          (0.41     20.61       (3.23     1,345       1.01       1.01       1.91       51  
          (0.21     21.73       3.20       1,655       1.01       1.01       1.79       26  

 

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Financial Highlights (cont’d)

For a Share Outstanding for the Period ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Period
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
        
    
Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value:                                    
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 30.06     $ 0.44     $ 0.54     $ 0.98     $ (0.31   $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    31.41       0.39       1.27       1.66       (0.26     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    24.37       0.36       7.03 (d)      7.39       (0.33     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    25.82       0.45       (0.87     (0.42     (0.32     (0.71        

6/30/2015

    25.52       0.31       0.36       0.67       (0.37              
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 24.62     $ 0.13     $ 0.54     $ 0.67     $     $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    26.22       0.12       1.08       1.20       (0.05     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    20.43       0.13       5.87 (d)      6.00       (0.19     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    21.83       0.23       (0.73     (0.50     (0.19     (0.71        

6/30/2015

    21.66       0.10       0.30       0.40       (0.23              
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 25.79     $ 0.31     $ 0.46     $ 0.77     $ (0.27   $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    27.40       0.24       1.17       1.41       (0.27     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    21.26       0.26       6.13 (d)      6.39       (0.23     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    22.68       0.34       (0.76     (0.42     (0.29     (0.71        

6/30/2015

    22.48       0.22       0.32       0.54       (0.34              
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 24.35     $ 0.41     $ 0.43     $ 0.84     $ (0.38   $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    26.01       0.37       1.10       1.47       (0.38     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    20.27       0.32       5.87 (d)      6.19       (0.43     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    21.70       0.43       (0.74       (0.31       (0.41       (0.71        

6/30/2015

    21.57       0.33       0.29       0.62       (0.49              
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 32.15     $ 0.58     $ 0.57     $ 1.15     $ (0.40   $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    33.41       0.51       1.38       1.89       (0.40     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    25.88       0.48       7.47 (d)      7.95       (0.40     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    27.33       0.56       (0.90     (0.34     (0.40     (0.71        

6/30/2015

    26.99       0.43       0.37       0.80       (0.46              
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $   32.13     $   0.63     $ 0.53     $ 1.16     $ (0.41   $ (0.13        

12/18/2017* - 6/30/2018

    36.74       0.18       (1.61     (1.43     (0.43     (2.75        
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 31.00     $ 0.48     $ 0.56     $ 1.04     $ (0.34   $ (0.13        

6/30/2018

    32.35       0.42          1.32       1.74       (0.34     (2.75        

6/30/2017

    25.08       0.40       7.24 (d)      7.64       (0.35     (0.02        

6/30/2016

    26.54       0.49       (0.89     (0.40     (0.35     (0.71        

6/30/2015

    26.23       0.35       0.37       0.72       (0.41              

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

Commencement of operations.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the period.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the period and a sale of a share on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP. Total return for a period of less than one year is not annualized.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests.

(d)

Payments from securities litigation increased net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss) and net asset value per share by approximately $1.41 for Class A; $1.23 for Class C; $1.13 for Class R; $1.93 for Class P; $1.19 for Institutional Class and $1.63 for Administrative Class. The increase in total return per class was approximately 5.86% for Class A; 6.08% for Class C; 5.37% for Class R; 9.70% for Class P; 4.66% for Institutional Class and 6.58% for Administrative Class.

(e)

Annualized, unless otherwise noted.

 

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       Total
Dividends and
Distributions
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Period
    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Period
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income
to Average
Net Assets
    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                                   
                                 
        $ (0.44   $ 30.60       3.46   $ 595,707       0.99     1.21     1.48     81
          (3.01     30.06       4.88       518,293       1.04 (c)      1.21 (c)      1.22 (c)      31  
          (0.35     31.41 (d)      30.53 (d)      480,691       1.21 (c)      1.21 (c)      1.30 (c)      45  
          (1.03     24.37       (1.46     363,166       1.23 (c)      1.23 (c)      1.88 (c)      50  
          (0.37     25.82       2.66       408,706       1.26 (c)      1.26 (c)      1.23 (c)      48  
                                 
        $ (0.13   $ 25.16       2.73   $ 48,176       1.74     1.96     0.54     81
          (2.80     24.62       4.10       182,192       1.79 (c)      1.96 (c)      0.46 (c)      31  
          (0.21     26.22 (d)      29.52 (d)      168,922       1.96 (c)      1.96 (c)      0.59 (c)      45  
          (0.90     20.43       (2.16     173,304       1.98 (c)      1.98 (c)      1.13 (c)      50  
          (0.23     21.83       1.88       198,432       2.01 (c)      2.01 (c)      0.48 (c)      48  
                                 
        $ (0.40   $ 26.16       3.21   $ 20,087       1.24     1.46     1.22     81
          (3.02     25.79       4.65       15,644       1.27 (c)      1.46 (c)      0.90 (c)      31  
          (0.25     27.40 (d)      30.19 (d)      5,591       1.46 (c)      1.46 (c)      1.09 (c)      45  
          (1.00     21.26       (1.70     6,969       1.48 (c)      1.48 (c)      1.58 (c)      50  
          (0.34     22.68       2.43       11,665       1.51 (c)      1.51 (c)      0.96 (c)      48  
                                 
        $ (0.51   $ 24.68       3.75   $ 197,201       0.74     0.96     1.70     81
          (3.13     24.35       5.17       200,081       0.77 (c)      0.96 (c)      1.46 (c)      31  
          (0.45     26.01 (d)      30.82 (d)      52,167       0.96 (c)      0.96 (c)      1.39 (c)      45  
          (1.12     20.27       (1.19     17,268       0.98 (c)      0.98 (c)      2.14 (c)      50  
          (0.49     21.70       2.93       15,307       1.01 (c)      1.01 (c)      1.55 (c)      48  
                                 
        $ (0.53   $ 32.77       3.83   $   406,173       0.64     0.86     1.82     81
          (3.15     32.15       5.26       332,110       0.66 (c)      0.86 (c)      1.53 (c)      31  
          (0.42     33.41 (d)      30.95 (d)      53,333       0.86 (c)      0.86 (c)      1.66 (c)      45  
          (1.11     25.88       (1.08     55,877       0.88 (c)      0.88 (c)      2.16 (c)      50  
          (0.46     27.33       3.01       92,289       0.91 (c)      0.91 (c)      1.60 (c)      48  
                                 
        $   (0.54   $   32.75       3.89   $ 18,052       0.59     0.81     2.03     81
          (3.18     32.13       (4.25     2,167       0.59 (c)(e)      0.81 (c)(e)      1.04 (c)(e)      31  
                                 
        $ (0.47   $ 31.57       3.60   $ 27,405       0.89     1.11     1.58     81
          (3.09     31.00       4.98       18,947       0.92 (c)      1.11 (c)      1.32 (c)      31  
          (0.37     32.35 (d)      30.66 (d)      5,120       1.11 (c)      1.11 (c)      1.40 (c)      45  
          (1.06     25.08       (1.36     3,792       1.13 (c)      1.13 (c)      1.98 (c)      50  
          (0.41     26.54       2.77       4,698       1.16 (c)      1.16 (c)      1.33 (c)      48  

 

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Financial Highlights (cont’d)

For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

    Net Asset
Value,
Beginning
of Year
    Net
Investment
Income (a)
    Net Realized
and Change
in Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
    Total from
Investment
Operations
    Dividends
from Net
Investment
Income
        
    
Distributions
from Net
Realized Capital
Gains
        
AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $ 21.71     $ 0.29     $ (2.73   $ (2.44   $ (0.62   $ (4.12        

6/30/2018

    24.36       0.29       1.44       1.73       (0.12     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    20.82       0.30       4.12       4.42       (0.32     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    25.91       0.41       (1.92     (1.51     (0.35     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    35.24       0.41       (1.95     (1.54     (0.67     (7.12        
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 19.30     $ 0.16     $ (2.41   $ (2.25   $     $ (4.08 )*         

6/30/2018

    22.14       0.11       1.31       1.42             (4.26        

6/30/2017

    19.02       0.12       3.75       3.87       (0.19     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    23.99       0.23       (1.78     (1.55     (0.19     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    33.27       0.17       (1.85     (1.68     (0.48     (7.12        
Class R                            

6/30/2019

  $ 23.10     $ 0.26     $ (2.85   $ (2.59   $ (0.54   $ (4.12        

6/30/2018

    25.64       0.25       1.51       1.76       (0.04     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    21.87       0.25       4.34       4.59       (0.26     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    26.99       0.37       (1.99     (1.62     (0.27     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    36.37       0.34       (2.02     (1.68     (0.58     (7.12        
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 24.18     $ 0.38     $ (2.97   $ (2.59   $ (0.68   $ (4.12        

6/30/2018

    26.69       0.39       1.56       1.95       (0.20     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    22.74       0.36       4.54       4.90       (0.39     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    27.92       0.51       (2.06     (1.55     (0.40     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    37.36       0.51       (2.07     (1.56     (0.76     (7.12        
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $   24.34     $   0.41     $   (3.00   $   (2.59   $   (0.68   $   (4.12        

6/30/2018

    26.82       0.42       1.58       2.00       (0.22     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    22.84       0.42       4.53       4.95       (0.41     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    28.05       0.55       (2.08     (1.53     (0.45     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    37.46       0.56       (2.07     (1.51     (0.78     (7.12        
Class R6                            

6/30/2019

  $ 24.25     $ 0.41     $ (2.99   $ (2.58   $ (0.70   $ (4.12        

6/30/2018

    26.75       0.44       1.56       2.00       (0.24     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    22.79       0.41       4.55       4.96       (0.44     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    28.02       0.56       (2.08     (1.52     (0.48     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    37.47       0.40       (1.90     (1.50     (0.83     (7.12        
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 21.65     $ 0.30     $ (2.73   $ (2.43   $ (0.62   $ (4.12        

6/30/2018

    24.30       0.32       1.43       1.75       (0.14     (4.26        

6/30/2017

    20.78       0.33       4.11       4.44       (0.36     (0.56        

6/30/2016

    25.87       0.45       (1.92     (1.47     (0.39     (3.23        

6/30/2015

    35.19       0.46       (1.96     (1.50     (0.70     (7.12        

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

The character of a portion of the distribution was redesignated from net investment income to net realized capital gain for the year ended June 30, 2019. The per share amount for Class C differs from other classes, as at the time the distribution was made, Class C had minimal distributable net investment income, therefore no redesignation for Class C was made.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests.

(d)

Payments from Affiliates increased the end of period net asset value and total return by less than $0.01 and 0.01%, respectively.

 

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       Total
Dividends and
Distributions
    Net Asset
Value, End
of Year
    Total Return (b)     Net Assets,
End of Year
(000s)
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets with
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/
Reimbursement
    Ratio of Net
Investment
Income
to Average
Net Assets
    Portfolio
Turnover Rate
 
                                                   
                                 
        $ (4.74   $ 14.53       (7.70 )%    $ 439,710       1.18     1.26     1.65     47
          (4.38     21.71       7.04       718,104       1.20       1.25       1.27       24  
          (0.88     24.36       21.38       788,438       1.20 (c)      1.24 (c)      1.31 (c)      30  
          (3.58     20.82       (5.31     1,037,525       1.22 (c)      1.23 (c)      1.88 (c)      48  
          (7.79     25.91 (d)      (3.77 )(d)        1,592,000       1.18       1.21       1.39       42  
                                 
        $ (4.08   $ 12.97       (8.35 )%    $ 3,984       1.93     2.01     0.88     47
          (4.26     19.30       6.26       106,052       1.95       2.00       0.54       24  
          (0.75     22.14       20.45       135,225       1.95 (c)      1.99 (c)      0.56 (c)      30  
          (3.42     19.02       (5.99     175,139       1.97 (c)      1.98 (c)      1.14 (c)      48  
          (7.60     23.99 (d)      (4.52 )(d)      259,629       1.93       1.96       0.63       42  
                                 
        $ (4.66   $ 15.85       (7.97 )%    $ 22,153       1.43     1.51     1.41     47
          (4.30     23.10       6.77       37,655       1.45       1.50       1.02       24  
          (0.82     25.64       21.09       51,759       1.45 (c)      1.49 (c)      1.04 (c)      30  
          (3.50     21.87       (5.52     64,707       1.47 (c)      1.48 (c)      1.62 (c)      48  
          (7.70     26.99 (d)      (4.06 )(d)      97,345       1.43       1.46       1.13       42  
                                 
        $ (4.80   $ 16.79       (7.49 )%    $ 39,426       0.93     1.01     1.91     47
          (4.46     24.18       7.27       65,466       0.95       1.00       1.54       24  
          (0.95     26.69       21.66       72,679       0.95 (c)      0.99 (c)      1.42 (c)      30  
          (3.63     22.74       (5.01     58,556       0.97 (c)      0.98 (c)      2.13 (c)      48  
          (7.88     27.92 (d)      (3.58 )(d)      106,077       0.93       0.96       1.63       42  
                                 
        $ (4.80   $ 16.95       (7.42 )%    $ 288,309       0.83     0.91     1.98     47
          (4.48     24.34       7.43       778,547       0.85       0.90       1.61       24  
          (0.97     26.82       21.82       1,213,861       0.83 (c)      0.89 (c)      1.68 (c)      30  
          (3.68     22.84       (4.93     1,800,472       0.82 (c)      0.88 (c)      2.28 (c)      48  
          (7.90     28.05 (d)      (3.40 )(d)      2,866,196       0.78       0.86       1.78       42  
                                 
        $ (4.82   $ 16.85       (7.37 )%    $ 150,200       0.78     0.86     2.04     47
          (4.50     24.25       7.44       347,379       0.80       0.85       1.70       24  
          (1.00     26.75       21.90       464,279       0.79 (c)      0.84 (c)      1.60 (c)      30  
          (3.71     22.79       (4.86     371,453       0.77 (c)      0.83 (c)      2.39 (c)      48  
          (7.95     28.02 (d)      (3.37 )(d)        235,613       0.73       0.81       1.36       42  
                                 
        $   (4.74   $ 14.48       (7.64 )%    $ 107,836       1.08     1.16     1.74     47
          (4.40     21.65       7.14       206,749       1.10       1.15       1.38       24  
          (0.92     24.30       21.52       365,241       1.09 (c)      1.14 (c)      1.43 (c)      30  
          (3.62     20.78       (5.11     494,621       1.07 (c)      1.13 (c)      2.03 (c)      48  
          (7.82       25.87 (d)      (3.62 )(d)      811,305       1.03       1.11       1.54       42  

 

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Financial Highlights (cont’d)

For a Share Outstanding for the Period ended:^

 

   

Net Asset

Value,

Beginning

of Period

   

Net

Investment

Income

(Loss) (a)

   

Net Realized

and Change

in Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

   

Total from

Investment

Operations

   

    

    

Dividends

from Net
Investment
Income

   

Distributions

from Net

Realized Capital

Gains

        
AllianzGI Small-Cap:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   21.61     $ 0.07     $ (0.53   $ (0.46   $   (0.02   $   (1.63        

6/30/2018

    20.51       (0.02     3.92       3.90             (2.80        

6/30/2017

    16.71       0.03       3.79       3.82       (0.01     (0.01        

6/30/2016

    18.41       0.03       (1.14     (1.11     (0.09     (0.50        

6/30/2015

    18.28       0.09       0.93       1.02       (0.05     (0.84        
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 20.92     $   (0.07   $   (0.54   $   (0.61   $     $ (1.63        

6/30/2018

    20.07       (0.17     3.82       3.65             (2.80        

6/30/2017

    16.48       (0.11     3.71       3.60             (0.01        

6/30/2016

    18.20       (0.10     (1.12     (1.22           (0.50        

6/30/2015

    18.16       (0.05     0.93       0.88             (0.84        
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 21.81     $ 0.12     $ (0.53   $ (0.41   $ (0.03   $ (1.63        

6/30/2018

    20.63       0.03       3.95       3.98             (2.80        

6/30/2017

    16.77       0.07       3.81       3.88       (0.01     (0.01        

6/30/2016

    18.49       0.07       (1.15     (1.08     (0.14     (0.50        

6/30/2015

    18.33       0.13       0.95       1.08       (0.08     (0.84        
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 21.96     $ 0.14     $ (0.53   $ (0.39   $ (0.04   $ (1.63        

6/30/2018

    20.73       0.05       3.98       4.03             (2.80        

6/30/2017

    16.84       0.10       3.81       3.91       (0.01     (0.01        

6/30/2016

    18.49       0.08       (1.13     (1.05     (0.10     (0.50        

6/30/2015

    18.34       0.15       0.94       1.09       (0.10     (0.84        
Class R6                            

8/22/2018* - 6/30/2019

  $ 23.16     $ 0.13     $ (1.71   $ (1.58   $ (0.05   $ (1.63        

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

*

Commencement of operations.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the period.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the period and a sale of a share on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP. Total return for a period of less than one year is not annualized.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests.

(d)

Payments from Affiliates increased the end of period net asset value and total return by less than $0.01 and 0.01%, respectively.

(e)

Annualized, unless otherwise noted.

 

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Total

Dividends and

Distributions

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Period

    Total Return (b)    

Net Assets,

End of Period

(000s)

   

Ratio of

Expenses to
Average Net

Assets with

Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of

Expenses to
Average Net

Assets without
Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of Net

Investment

Income (Loss)

to Average

Net Assets

   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                                   
                                 
        $   (1.65   $   19.50       (0.62 )%    $   66,269       1.18     1.27     0.35     78
          (2.80     21.61       19.96       44,860       1.31 (c)      1.31 (c)      (0.07 )(c)      126  
          (0.02     20.51 (d)      22.82 (d)      39,509       1.31       1.31       0.15       152  
          (0.59     16.71       (6.02     32,660       1.27       1.31       0.17       139  
          (0.89     18.41       6.01       38,579       1.24       1.30       0.47       148  
                                 
        $ (1.63   $ 18.68       (1.39 )%    $ 7,873       1.93     2.02     (0.36 )%      78
          (2.80     20.92       19.10       35,080       2.06 (c)      2.06 (c)      (0.82 )(c)      126  
          (0.01     20.07 (d)      21.82 (d)      32,802       2.06       2.06       (0.60     152  
          (0.50     16.48       (6.72     36,607       2.02       2.06       (0.58     139  
          (0.84     18.20       5.27       44,067       1.99       2.05       (0.29     148  
                                 
        $ (1.66   $ 19.74       (0.36 )%    $ 9,637       0.93     1.02     0.61     78
          (2.80     21.81       20.25       6,883       1.06 (c)      1.06 (c)      0.12 (c)      126  
          (0.02     20.63 (d)      23.12 (d)      3,425       1.06       1.06       0.39       152  
          (0.64     16.77       (5.82     3,246       1.02       1.06       0.43       139  
          (0.92     18.49       6.36       2,143       0.99       1.05       0.73       148  
                                 
        $ (1.67   $ 19.90       (0.29 )%    $ 9,077       0.83     0.92     0.70     78
          (2.80     21.96       20.40       8,104       0.96 (c)      0.96 (c)      0.21 (c)      126  
          (0.02     20.73 (d)      23.22 (d)      3,037       0.96       0.96       0.52       152  
          (0.60     16.84       (5.69     2,738       0.92       0.96       0.46       139  
          (0.94     18.49       6.41       6,656       0.93       0.95       0.86       148  
                                 
        $ (1.68   $ 19.90       (5.42 )%    $ 17,792       0.77 %(e)      0.87 %(e)      0.76 %(e)      78

 

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For a Share Outstanding for the Year ended:^

 

   

Net Asset

Value,

Beginning

of Year

   

Net

Investment

Income

(Loss) (a)

   

    

    

Net Realized

and Change

in Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

   

Total from

Investment

Operations

   

Distributions

from Net

Realized Capital

Gains

   

Net Asset

Value, End

of Year

        
AllianzGI Technology:                                          
Class A                            

6/30/2019

  $   71.60     $ (0.68   $ 5.90     $ 5.22     $ (12.90   $ 63.92          

6/30/2018

    60.82       (0.64     22.58       21.94       (11.16     71.60          

6/30/2017

    48.03       (0.17 )(d)      15.75       15.58       (2.79     60.82 (d)         

6/30/2016

    58.15       (0.38     (1.07     (1.45     (8.67     48.03          

6/30/2015

    63.49       (0.54     6.49       5.95       (11.29     58.15          
Class C                            

6/30/2019

  $ 55.32     $ (0.92   $ 3.72     $ 2.80     $ (12.90   $ 45.22          

6/30/2018

    49.43       (0.91     17.96       17.05       (11.16     55.32          

6/30/2017

    39.80       (0.46 )(d)      12.88       12.42       (2.79     49.43 (d)         

6/30/2016

    49.98       (0.66     (0.85     (1.51     (8.67     39.80          

6/30/2015

    56.46       (0.87     5.68       4.81       (11.29     49.98          
Class P                            

6/30/2019

  $ 79.05     $ (0.58   $ 6.92     $ 6.34     $ (12.90   $ 72.49          

6/30/2018

    66.03       (0.53     24.71       24.18       (11.16     79.05          

6/30/2017

    51.80       (d)      17.02       17.02       (2.79     66.03 (d)         

6/30/2016

    61.90       (0.27     (1.16     (1.43     (8.67     51.80          

6/30/2015

    66.74       (0.42     6.87       6.45       (11.29     61.90          
Institutional Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 80.40     $   (0.52   $ 7.12     $ 6.60     $   (12.90   $   74.10          

6/30/2018

    66.94       (0.45       25.07         24.62       (11.16     80.40          

6/30/2017

    52.43       0.06 (d)      17.24       17.30       (2.79     66.94 (d)         

6/30/2016

    62.49       (0.24     (1.15     (1.39     (8.67     52.43          

6/30/2015

    67.21       (0.36     6.93       6.57       (11.29     62.49          
Administrative Class                            

6/30/2019

  $ 75.76     $ (0.67   $ 6.48     $ 5.81     $ (12.90   $ 68.67          

6/30/2018

    63.76       (0.61     23.77       23.16       (11.16     75.76          

6/30/2017

    50.18       (0.23 )(d)      16.60       16.37       (2.79     63.76 (d)         

6/30/2016

    60.32       (0.36     (1.11     (1.47     (8.67     50.18          

6/30/2015

    65.40       (0.50     6.71       6.21       (11.29     60.32          

 

^

A “—” may reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $0.01 or 0.01%.

(a)

Calculated on average shares outstanding during the year.

(b)

Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of a share on the first day of the year and a sale of a share on the last day of each year reported. Dividends and distributions, if any, are assumed, for purposes of this calculation, to be reinvested. Total return does not reflect sales charges and includes the effect of fee waivers and reimbursements. Total return may reflect adjustments to conform to U.S. GAAP.

(c)

Does not include expenses of the investment companies in which the Fund invests.

(d)

An out of period adjustment of $3,694,541, which is included in miscellaneous income, related to income earned in previous years, decreased net investment loss per share and increased net asset value per share by approximately $0.15 for Class A; $0.13 for Class C; $0.20 for Class P; $0.20 for Institutional Class and $0.04 for Administrative Class. The increase in total return and decrease in ratio of net investment loss to average net assets relating to this income for each share class was approximately 0.33% and 0.28% for Class A; 0.35% and 0.29% for Class C; 0.40% and 0.33% for Class P; 0.40% and 0.32% for Institutional Class; 0.09% and 0.08% for Administrative Class, respectively.

 

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       Total Return (b)    

Net Assets,

End of Year

(000s)

   

Ratio of

Expenses to

Average Net

Assets with

Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of
Expenses to
Average Net
Assets without
Fee Waiver/

Reimbursement

   

Ratio of Net

Investment

Income (Loss)

to Average

Net Assets

   

Portfolio

Turnover Rate

 
                                       
                         
          12.40   $   601,112       1.51 %(c)      1.56 %(c)      (1.05 )%(c)      109
          38.89       530,127       1.42 (c)      1.57 (c)      (0.95 )(c)      104  
          33.69 (d)      452,039       1.51 (c)      1.61 (c)      (0.31 )(c)(d)      128  
          (3.24     417,305       1.66 (c)      1.66 (c)      (0.74 )(c)      171  
          10.33       340,765       1.61       1.61       (0.90     165  
                         
          11.57   $ 48,842       2.23 %(c)      2.31 %(c)      (1.78 )%(c)      109
          37.86       138,589       2.17 (c)      2.32 (c)      (1.70 )(c)      104  
          32.69 (d)      113,411       2.26 (c)      2.36 (c)      (1.05 )(c)(d)      128  
          (3.95     112,423       2.41 (c)      2.41 (c)      (1.53 )(c)      171  
          9.51       130,395       2.36       2.36       (1.65     165  
                         
          12.68   $ 155,553       1.27 %(c)      1.31 %(c)      (0.80 )%(c)      109
          39.24       100,560       1.17 (c)      1.32 (c)      (0.71 )(c)      104  
          34.03 (d)      59,369       1.26 (c)      1.35 (c)      (0.01 )(c)(d)      128  
          (2.99     44,881       1.41 (c)      1.41 (c)      (0.50 )(c)      171  
          10.62       53,710       1.36       1.36       (0.66     165  
                         
          12.81   $ 800,061       1.16 %(c)      1.21 %(c)      (0.69 )%(c)      109
          39.37       789,922       1.07 (c)      1.22 (c)      (0.59 )(c)      104  
          34.16 (d)      736,162       1.16 (c)      1.25 (c)      0.09 (c)(d)      128  
          (2.89     518,761       1.31 (c)      1.31 (c)      (0.43 )(c)      171  
          10.71       617,315       1.26       1.26       (0.55     165  
                         
          12.52   $ 11,688       1.40 %(c)      1.46 %(c)      (0.95 )%(c)      109
          39.02       23,535       1.32 (c)      1.47 (c)      (0.85 )(c)      104  
          33.83 (d)      15,062       1.44 (c)      1.52 (c)      (0.41 )(c)(d)      128  
          (3.15     62,913       1.56 (c)      1.56 (c)      (0.68 )(c)      171  
          10.44       72,947       1.51       1.51       (0.80     165  

 

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June 30, 2019

 

1.

ORGANIZATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Allianz Funds (the “Trust”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company organized as a Massachusetts business trust and accordingly, follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services—Investment Companies. As of June 30, 2019, the Trust consisted of fourteen separate investment funds (each a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”). Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (“AllianzGI U.S.” or the “Investment Adviser”) serves as the Funds’ investment adviser. The Investment Adviser is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz Asset Management of America L.P. (“AAM”). AAM is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz SE, a publicly traded European insurance and financial services company. Currently, the Trust may offer up to seven classes of shares to new and existing investors: A, C, R, P, Institutional, R6 and Administrative. Class C shares of a Fund will automatically convert to Class A shares of the same Fund following the ten-year anniversary of purchase. Such conversions are subject to certain limitations.

During the year ended June 30, 2019, the following Fund sold and issued shares of beneficial interest to Allianz of America, Inc. (“AZOA”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Allianz SE:

 

AllianzGI Small Cap  
Class   Date     Shares     Amount  

R6

    8/22/18       432     $   10,000  

The investment objective of AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities is to seek maximum long-term capital appreciation. The investment objective of AllianzGI Focused Growth, AllianzGI Global Natural Resources, AllianzGI Global Small-Cap, AllianzGI Health Sciences, AllianzGI Mid-Cap, AllianzGI Small-Cap and AllianzGI Technology is to seek long-term capital appreciation. The investment objective of AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value, AllianzGI NFJ International Value, AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value, AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value and AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value is to seek long-term growth of capital and income. The investment objective of AllianzGI Income & Growth is to seek total return comprised of current income, current gains and capital appreciation. There can be no assurance that the Funds will meet their stated objectives.

The preparation of the Funds’ financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) requires the Funds’ management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts and disclosures in each Fund’s financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Like many other companies, the Trust’s organizational documents provide that its officers (“Officers”) and the Board of Trustees (the “Board” or the “Trustees”) are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Trust. In addition, both in some of its principal service contracts and in the normal

course of its business, the Trust enters into contracts that provide indemnifications to other parties for certain types of losses or liabilities. The Trust’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this could involve future claims against the Trust.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Funds:

(a) Valuation of Investments.  Portfolio securities and other financial instruments for which market quotations are readily available are valued at market value. Market values for various types of securities and other instruments are determined on the basis of closing prices or last sales prices on an exchange or other market, or based on quotes or other market information obtained from quotation reporting systems, established market makers or pricing services. Investments in mutual funds are valued at the net asset value (“NAV”) as reported on each business day, and, under normal circumstances, ETFs are valued at their current market trading price. The Funds’ investments are valued daily using prices supplied by an independent pricing service or broker/dealer quotations, or by using the last sale or settlement price on the exchange that is the primary market for such securities, or the mean between the last bid and ask quotations. The market value for NASDAQ Global Market and NASDAQ Capital Market securities may also be calculated using the NASDAQ Official Closing Price instead of the last reported sales price. Independent pricing services use information provided by market makers or estimates of market values obtained from yield data relating to investments or securities with similar characteristics.

The Board has adopted procedures for valuing portfolio securities and other financial derivative instruments in circumstances where market quotes are not readily available (including in cases where available market quotations are deemed to be unreliable), and has delegated primary responsibility for applying the valuation methods to the Investment Adviser. The Trust’s Valuation Committee was established by the Board to oversee the implementation of the Funds’ valuation methods and to make fair value determinations on behalf of the Board, as instructed. The Investment Adviser monitors the continued appropriateness of methods applied and identifies circumstances and events that may require fair valuation. The Investment Adviser determines if adjustments should be made in light of market changes, events affecting the issuer or other factors. If the Investment Adviser determines that a valuation method may no longer be appropriate, another valuation method previously approved by the Valuation Committee may be selected, or the Trust’s Valuation Committee will be convened to consider the matter and take any appropriate action in accordance with procedures set forth by the Board. The Board shall review the appropriateness of the valuation methods and these methods may be amended or supplemented from time to time by the Trust’s Valuation Committee.

Short-term debt investments having a remaining maturity of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost unless the Board or its Valuation Committee determines that particular circumstances dictate otherwise.

 

 

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Investments initially valued in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are converted to the U.S. dollar using exchange rates obtained from pricing services. As a result, the NAV of each share class of a Fund may be affected by changes in the value of currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar. The value of securities traded in markets outside the United States or denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar may be affected significantly on a day that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is closed and the NAV of a Fund’s shares may change on days when an investor is not able to purchase or redeem or exchanges shares.

The prices used by the Funds to value investments may differ from the value that would be realized if the investments were sold, and these differences could be material to the Funds’ financial statements. The NAV of each share class of a Fund is normally determined as of the close of regular trading (normally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time) on the NYSE on each day the NYSE is open for business. In unusual circumstances, the Board or the Valuation Committee may in good faith determine the NAV as of 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, notwithstanding an earlier, unscheduled close or halt of trading on the NYSE.

The prices of certain portfolio securities or financial instruments may be determined at a time prior to the close of regular trading on the NYSE. In considering whether fair value pricing is required and in determining fair values, the Funds may, among other things, consider significant events (which may be considered to include changes in the value of U.S. securities or securities indices) that occur after the close of the relevant market and before the time the NAV of each share class of a Fund is calculated. With respect to certain foreign securities, the Funds may fair-value securities using modeling tools provided by third-party vendors, where appropriate. The Funds have retained a statistical research service to assist in determining the fair value of foreign securities. This service utilizes statistics and programs based on historical performance of markets and other economic data to assist in making fair value estimates. Fair value estimates used by the Funds for foreign securities may differ from the value realized from the sale of those securities and the difference could be material to the financial statements. Fair value pricing may require subjective determinations about the value of a security or other assets, and fair values used to determine the NAV of each share class of a Fund may differ from quoted or published prices, or from prices that are used by others, for the same investments. Also, the use of fair value pricing may not always result in adjustments to the prices of securities or other assets held by a Fund.

(b) Fair Value Measurements.  Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (i.e., the “exit price”) in an orderly transaction between market participants. The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below:

 

  Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments that the Funds have the ability to access
  Level 2—valuations based on other significant observable inputs, which may include, but are not limited to, quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, interest rates, yield curves, volatilities, prepayment speeds, loss severities, credit risks and default rates or other market corroborated inputs
  Level 3—valuations based on significant unobservable inputs (including the Investment Adviser’s or the Trust’s Valuation Committee’s own assumptions and securities whose price was determined by using a single broker’s quote)

The valuation techniques used by the Funds to measure fair value during the year ended June 30, 2019 were intended to maximize the use of observable inputs and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

An investment asset’s or liability’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level input, individually or in aggregate, that is significant to the fair value measurement. The objective of fair value measurement remains the same even when there is a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for an asset or liability and regardless of the valuation techniques used.

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following are certain inputs and techniques that the Funds generally use to evaluate how to classify each major category of assets and liabilities within Level 2 and Level 3, in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

An asset or liability for which market values cannot be measured using the methodologies described above is valued by methods deemed reasonable in good faith by the Valuation Committee, following the procedures established by the Board, to represent fair value. Under these procedures, the Funds generally use a market-based approach which may use related or comparable assets or liabilities, recent transactions, market multiples, book values and other relevant information. Fair value determinations involve the consideration of a number of subjective factors, an analysis of applicable facts and circumstances and the exercise of judgment. As a result, it is possible that the fair value for a security determined in good faith in accordance with the Funds’ valuation procedures may differ from valuations for the same security determined by other funds using their own valuation procedures. Although the Funds’ valuation procedures are designed to value a security at the price the Funds may reasonably expect to receive upon the security’s sale in an orderly transaction, there can be no assurance that any fair value determination thereunder would, in fact, approximate the amount that the Funds would actually realize upon the sale of the security or the price at which the security would trade if a reliable market price were readily available.

Equity Securities (Common and Preferred Stock and Warrants)—Equity securities traded in inactive markets and certain foreign equity securities are valued using inputs which include broker-dealer quotes, recently executed transactions adjusted for changes in the benchmark index, or evaluated price quotes received from independent pricing services that take into account the integrity of the market sector and issuer, the individual characteristics of the security, and information received from broker-dealers and other market sources pertaining to the issuer or security. To the extent that these inputs are observable, the values of equity securities are categorized as Level 2. To the extent that these inputs are unobservable, the values are categorized as Level 3.

 

 

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Corporate Bonds & Notes—Corporate bonds & notes are generally comprised of two main categories: investment grade bonds and high yield bonds. Investment grade bonds are valued by independent pricing services using various inputs and techniques, which include broker-dealer quotations, live trading levels, recently executed transactions in securities of the issuer or comparable issuers, and option adjusted spread models that include base curve and spread curve inputs. Adjustments to individual bonds can be applied to recognize trading differences compared to other bonds issued by the same issuer. High yield bonds are valued by independent pricing services based primarily on broker-dealer quotations from relevant market makers and recently executed transactions in securities of the issuer or comparable issuers. The broker-dealer quotations received are supported by credit analysis of the issuer that takes into consideration credit quality assessments, daily trading activity, and the activity of the underlying equities, listed bonds and sector-specific trends. To the extent that these inputs are observable, the values of corporate bonds & notes are categorized as Level 2. To the extent that these inputs are unobservable, the values are categorized as Level 3.

Convertible Bonds & Notes—Convertible bonds & notes are valued by independent pricing services based on various inputs and techniques, which include broker-dealer quotations from relevant market makers and recently executed transactions in securities of the issuer or comparable issuers. The broker-dealer quotations received are supported by credit analysis of the issuer that takes into

consideration credit quality assessments, daily trading activity, and the activity of the underlying equities, listed bonds and sector-specific trends. To the extent that these inputs are observable, the values of convertible bonds & notes are categorized as Level 2. To the extent that these inputs are unobservable, the values are categorized as Level 3.

Option Contracts—Option contracts traded over-the-counter (“OTC”) and FLexible EXchange (“FLEX”) options are valued by independent pricing services based on pricing models that incorporate various inputs such as interest rates, credit spreads, currency exchange rates and volatility measurements for in-the-money, at-the-money, and out-of-the-money contracts based on a given strike price. To the extent that these inputs are observable, the values of OTC and FLEX option contracts are categorized as Level 2. To the extent that these inputs are unobservable, the values are categorized as Level 3.

Forward Foreign Currency Contracts—Forward foreign currency contracts are valued by independent pricing services using various inputs and techniques, which include broker-dealer quotations, actual trading information and foreign currency exchange rates gathered from leading market makers and foreign currency exchange trading centers throughout the world. To the extent that these inputs are observable, the values of forward foreign currency contracts are categorized as Level 2. To the extent that these inputs are unobservable, the values are categorized as Level 3.

 

 

A summary of the inputs used at June 30, 2019 in valuing each Fund’s assets and liabilities is listed below (refer to the Schedules of Investments and Notes to Schedules of Investments for more detailed information on Investments in Securities and Other Financial Instruments):

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Brazil

   $ 16,449,798                    $ 16,449,798  

China

     20,059,970      $   108,833,565               128,893,535  

India

     13,277,084        27,616,605               40,893,689  

Mexico

     10,879,228                      10,879,228  

Russian Federation

     22,946,912             $ 3,377,025        26,323,937  

South Africa

     3,658,174        14,902,830               18,561,004  

Thailand

                   7,596,712        7,596,712  

United States

     3,958,092                      3,958,092  

All Other

            95,579,325               95,579,325  

Preferred Stock:

                                   

Brazil

     12,856,021                      12,856,021  

Russian Federation

                   5,739,783        5,739,783  

Exchange-Traded Funds

     2,832,060                      2,832,060  

Repurchase Agreements

            5,998,000               5,998,000  

Totals

   $   106,917,339      $ 252,930,325      $   16,713,520      $   376,561,184  
           

 

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AllianzGI Focused Growth:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock

   $ 1,005,671,828                    $ 1,005,671,828  

Repurchase Agreements

          $   39,629,000               39,629,000  

Totals

   $   1,005,671,828      $ 39,629,000             $   1,045,300,828  
           
AllianzGI Global Natural Resources:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Australia

          $ 636,680             $ 636,680  

Denmark

            78,403               78,403  

France

            593,968               593,968  

Germany

            289,431               289,431  

Japan

            112,274               112,274  

Spain

            87,343               87,343  

United Kingdom

            1,657,816               1,657,816  

All Other

   $ 8,274,863                      8,274,863  

Exchange-Traded Funds

     407,064                      407,064  

Totals

   $ 8,681,927      $ 3,455,915             $ 12,137,842  
           
AllianzGI Global Small-Cap:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Australia

          $ 3,012,610      $ 46,051      $ 3,058,661  

Austria

   $ 1,516,490        759,529               2,276,019  

Denmark

            2,723,823               2,723,823  

Finland

            473,370               473,370  

France

            3,144,482               3,144,482  

Germany

     1,610,763        2,511,985               4,122,748  

Hong Kong

            191,521               191,521  

Indonesia

            322,552               322,552  

Italy

            1,306,692               1,306,692  

Japan

              12,759,281               12,759,281  

Netherlands

            1,484,900               1,484,900  

Norway

            1,345,679               1,345,679  

Singapore

     343,016        533,477               876,493  

Sweden

            912,375               912,375  

Switzerland

     897,803        2,134,442               3,032,245  

Taiwan

            180,205               180,205  

Thailand

                   257,201        257,201  

United Kingdom

            8,180,673               8,180,673  

All Other

     80,042,401                      80,042,401  

Preferred Stock

            674,411               674,411  

Repurchase Agreements

            4,336,000               4,336,000  

Totals

   $ 84,410,473      $ 46,988,007      $   303,252      $ 131,701,732  
           

 

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AllianzGI Health Sciences:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Pharmaceuticals

   $ 59,753,193      $ 3,339,966             $ 63,093,159  

All Other

     89,140,484                      89,140,484  

Warrants

                 $ 184,981        184,981  

Repurchase Agreements

            3,619,000               3,619,000  

Totals

   $ 148,893,677      $ 6,958,966      $ 184,981      $ 156,037,624  
           
AllianzGI Income & Growth:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Advertising

                 $ 266,445      $ 266,445  

Aerospace & Defense

   $ 47,991,014               272,411        48,263,425  

Apparel & Textiles

                   44,930        44,930  

Banks

     50,274,480               7        50,274,487  

Commercial Services

                   576,798        576,798  

Media

     18,505,956               1,018,843        19,524,799  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

     38,945,143               18        38,945,161  

All Other

     1,332,375,500                      1,332,375,500  

Corporate Bonds & Notes:

 

Commercial Services

          $ 74,186,187        476,780        74,662,967  

Diversified Financial Services

            57,596,565        3,683,024        61,279,589  

Media

            120,188,096        8        120,188,104  

All Other

            1,145,070,918               1,145,070,918  

Convertible Bonds & Notes:

 

Banks

            1,004,375        17,201,932        18,206,307  

All Other

            1,188,646,189               1,188,646,189  

Convertible Preferred Stock:

 

Computers

            10,777,966               10,777,966  

Diversified Financial Services

            3,527,607               3,527,607  

Electronics

            15,758,632               15,758,632  

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

            15,268,065               15,268,065  

Hand/Machine Tools

            12,980,294               12,980,294  

Healthcare-Products

     21,832,009        20,758,694               42,590,703  

All Other

     97,550,230                      97,550,230  

Preferred Stock

                   18,217,438        18,217,438  

Equity-Linked Security

     192,096                      192,096  

Warrants

                   69,803        69,803  

Repurchase Agreements

            211,938,000               211,938,000  
       1,607,666,428        2,877,701,588        41,828,437        4,527,196,453  

Investments in Securities – Liabilities

 

Options Written:

 

Market Price

     (760,940                    (760,940

Totals

   $   1,606,905,488      $   2,877,701,588      $   41,828,437      $   4,526,435,513  

 

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AllianzGI Mid-Cap:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock

   $ 310,499,281                    $ 310,499,281  

Repurchase Agreements

          $ 2,558,000               2,558,000  

Totals

   $ 310,499,281      $ 2,558,000             $ 313,057,281  
           
AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock

   $ 1,335,155,113                    $ 1,335,155,113  

Repurchase Agreements

          $ 21,560,000               21,560,000  

Totals

   $   1,335,155,113      $ 21,560,000             $   1,356,715,113  
           
AllianzGI NFJ International Value:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Canada

   $ 22,494,930                    $ 22,494,930  

India

     1,221,581                      1,221,581  

Mexico

     1,832,830                      1,832,830  

Peru

     1,785,857                      1,785,857  

Russian Federation

     1,677,879                      1,677,879  

Taiwan

     1,632,841                      1,632,841  

United Kingdom

     11,025,239      $ 18,595,271               29,620,510  

United States

     3,354,377                      3,354,377  

All Other

            114,577,790               114,577,790  

Repurchase Agreements

            1,224,000               1,224,000  

Totals

   $ 45,025,534      $   134,397,061             $ 179,422,595  
           
AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock

   $   344,382,417                    $   344,382,417  
           
AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock

   $ 1,305,212,930                    $ 1,305,212,930  

Repurchase Agreements

          $ 20,909,000               20,909,000  

Totals

   $ 1,305,212,930      $ 20,909,000             $ 1,326,121,930  
           

 

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AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Chemicals

   $ 29,045,395             $ 56      $ 29,045,451  

All Other

     1,029,152,088                      1,029,152,088  

Repurchase Agreements

          $ 13,137,000               13,137,000  

Totals

   $ 1,058,197,483      $ 13,137,000      $ 56      $ 1,071,334,539  
           
AllianzGI Small-Cap:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

   $ 4,295,151             $ 2,074      $ 4,297,225  

All Other

     104,488,459                      104,488,459  

Repurchase Agreements

          $ 2,279,000               2,279,000  

Totals

   $   108,783,610      $   2,279,000      $   2,074      $   111,064,684  
           
AllianzGI Technology:                            
Investments in Securities – Assets    Level 1–
Quoted Prices
     Level 2–
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3–
Significant
Unobservable Inputs
     Value at
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

           

Electrical Equipment

   $ 13,049,022      $ 13,734             $ 13,062,756  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components

     29,997        222,451               252,448  

Entertainment

     17,405,085        36,690               17,441,775  

Interactive Media & Services

     152,448,576        51,469               152,500,045  

IT Services

     370,021,006        145,372               370,166,378  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

     168,225,707        133,996               168,359,703  

Software

     522,729,101        17,129,717               539,858,818  

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

     52,077,119        45,869               52,122,988  

All Other

     159,871,967                      159,871,967  

Exchange-Traded Funds

            1,913               1,913  

Repurchase Agreements

            149,339,000               149,339,000  

Options Purchased:

           

Market Price

     2,659,800                      2,659,800  
       1,458,517,380        167,120,211               1,625,637,591  

Investments in Securities – Liabilities

           

Options Written:

           

Market Price

     (437,500                    (437,500

Securities Sold Short, at value

     (138                    (138
     (437,638                    (437,638

Totals

   $   1,458,079,742      $   167,120,211             $   1,625,199,953  

A roll forward of fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) for the year ended June 30, 2019, was as follows:

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

                 

Russian Federation

  $ 1,733,513     $ 3,990,748     $ (1,407,327         $   (247,646   $ (692,263               $ 3,377,025  

Thailand

    13,378,021       5,870,191       (11,598,487           288,939       (341,952                 7,596,712  

Preferred Stock

    2,322,012       2,108,431                           1,309,340                   5,739,783  

Totals

  $   17,433,546     $   11,969,370     $   (13,005,814         $ 41,293     $ 275,125                 $   16,713,520  

 

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AllianzGI Global Small-Cap:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

                 

Australia

        $ 44,355                       $ 1,696                 $ 46,051  

Thailand

          233,964                         23,237                   257,201  

Totals

        $   278,319               —           $   24,933         —           $ 303,252  
                 
AllianzGI Health Sciences:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Warrants

  $ 75,826                             $   109,155                 $   184,981  
                 
AllianzGI Income & Growth:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3*
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

                 

Advertising

  $ 1,385,428           $ (1,422,155 )††                $ 303,172                 $ 266,445  

Aerospace & Defense

    354,775                               (82,364                 272,411  

Apparel & Textiles

    60,947                               (16,017                 44,930  

Banks

          ††                        7                   7  

Commercial Services

        $ 1,960,164 ††                        (1,383,366                 576,798  

Media

    1,442,959                               (424,116                 1,018,843  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    322,716             (218,790 )†                  (103,789         $ (119 )**      18  

Semiconductors

    10,552             (25 )†          $ 25       (10,552                  

Corporate Bonds & Notes:

                 

Advertising

    993,836       81,097       (1,699,424 )††                  624,491                    

Commercial Services

                                      $ 476,780             476,780  

Diversified Financial Services

                                        3,683,024             3,683,024  

Media

    153                               (145                 8  

Convertible Bonds & Notes:

                 

Banks

    17,540,357                               665,950             (1,004,375 )***      17,201,932  

Energy-Alternate Sources

    571,500                                           (571,500 )***       

Preferred Stock

    18,217,438                                                 18,217,438  

Equity-Linked Securities:

                 

Coal

    117,974                               74,122             (192,096 )**       

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

    141                       (601,986     601,845                    

Warrants:

                 

Advertising

          1,422,155 ††                        (1,352,356                 69,799  

Commercial Services

    76                       (237,932     237,856                    

Media

    4                                                 4  

Totals

  $   41,018,856     $   3,463,416     $   (3,340,394         $   (839,893   $   (865,262   $   4,159,804     $   (1,768,090   $   41,828,437  

 

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The table for AllianzGI Income & Growth includes Level 3 investments that are valued by brokers and independent pricing services. The inputs for these investments are not readily available or cannot be reasonably estimated and are generally those inputs described in Note 1(b).

 

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value:                                
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

                 

Chemicals

  $ 56                                               $ 56  
                 
AllianzGI Small-Cap:                                
Investments in Securities – Assets   Beginning
Balance
6/30/18
    Purchases     Sales     Accrued
Discount
(Premiums)
    Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Change
in Unrealized
Appreciation/
Depreciation
    Transfers into
Level 3
    Transfers out
of Level 3
    Ending
Balance
6/30/19
 

Common Stock:

                 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

  $   7,258           $   (5,184 )†††                                  $   2,074  

The tables above may include Level 3 investments that are valued by brokers and independent pricing services.

The following table presents additional information about valuation techniques and inputs used for investments that are measured at fair value and categorized within Level 3 at June 30, 2019:

 

AllianzGI Health Sciences:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Ending
Balance
at 6/30/19
    Valuation Technique Used   Unobservable
Inputs
 

Input

Values

 

Warrants:

       

Pharmaceuticals

  $ 184,981     Black Scholes Model   Implied Price   $ 5.538  
                Expected Volatility       43.74 %  
       
AllianzGI Income & Growth:                    
Investments in Securities – Assets   Ending
Balance
at 6/30/19
    Valuation Technique Used   Unobservable
Inputs
 

Input Values

(Ranges)

 

Common Stock:

       
  $ 266,445     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     6.46x (4.93x-8.33x)  
      M&A Transaction Multiples     1.31x (0.67x-2.42x)  
                Illiquidity Discount     20%  
  $ 272,411     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     0.59x (0.39x-0.82x)  
      M&A Transaction Multiples     0.87x (0.32x-2.12x)  
                Illiquidity Discount     40%  
  $ 44,930     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     0.64x (0.19x-1.17x)  
          10.68x (3.86x-22.96x)  
          0.88x (0.22x-1.78x)  
                Illiquidity Discount     20%  
  $ 1,018,823     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     1.08x (0.22x-2.85x)  
          4.94x (3.08x-19.98x)  
      M&A Transaction Multiples     8.52x (6.65x-10.11x)  
                Illiquidity Discount     10%  

Corporate Bonds & Notes:

       

Diversified Financial Services

  $ 3,683,024     Market and Company Comparables   Implied Price   $ 36.11  

Preferred Stock :

  $   18,217,358     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     0.71x (0.23x-1.32x)  
                Illiquidity Discount     25%  

Warrants:

       

Advertising

  $ 69,799     Market and Company Comparables   EV Multiples     6.53x (1.23x-25.52x)  
          6.39x (1.26x-19.85x)  
    Black-Sholes Model   Expected Volatility     24.94%  
                Implied Price   $ 55.36  

 

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AllianzGI Small-Cap:  
Investments in Securities – Assets   Ending
Balance
at 6/30/19
    Valuation Technique Used   Unobservable
Inputs
 

Input

Values

 

Common Stock

  $   2,074     Net Asset Approach   Estimated Movement of Proceeds     7.18%  
            Market and Company Comparables   Benchmark Index Movement     (2.61)%  

The tables above do not include Level 3 investments that are valued by brokers or independent pricing services.

 

*

Transferred out of Level 2 and into Level 3 because current evaluated mean price was not available at June 30, 2019.

**

Transferred out of Level 3 and into Level 1 because an exchange-traded closing price was available at June 30, 2019.

***

Transferred out of Level 3 and into Level 2 because an evaluated mean price was used at June 30, 2019, which was not available on June 30, 2018.

Reduction due to cash distribution from corporate action.

††

Issued or removed via corporate action.

†††

Reduced due to Return of Capital payments.

@

Removed from accounting records as worthless.

 

The net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of Level 3 investments which the following Funds held at June 30, 2019 was:

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $ 971,623  

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    24,933  

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    109,155  

AllianzGI Income & Growth

      (2,916,759

Net realized gain (loss) and net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation are reflected on the Statements of Operations.

(c) Investment Transactions and Investment Income.  Investment transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Securities purchased and sold on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis may be settled beyond a standard settlement period for the security after the trade date. Realized gains and losses on investments are determined on an identified cost basis. Estimated tax liabilities on certain foreign securities are recorded on an accrual basis and are reflected as a component of net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments on the Statements of Operations. Tax liabilities realized as a result of such security sales are reflected as a component of net realized gain (loss) on investments on the Statements of Operations. Interest income adjusted for the accretion of discounts and amortization of premiums is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts or premiums on debt securities purchased are accreted or amortized, respectively, to interest income. Conversion premium is not amortized. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date, except for certain dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend date may have passed, and then are recorded as soon after the ex-dividend date as the Funds, using reasonable diligence, become aware of such dividends. Dividend and interest income on the Statements of Operations are shown net of any foreign taxes withheld on income from foreign securities. Payments received from real estate investment trust securities may be comprised of dividends, realized gains and return of capital. The payment may initially be recorded as dividend income and may subsequently be reclassified as realized gains and/or return of capital upon receipt of information from the issuer. Payments considered return of capital reduce the cost basis of the respective security. Distributions, if any, in excess of the cost basis of a security are recognized as capital gains. Dividends from underlying funds are recorded as dividend income, while capital gain

distributions are recorded as net capital gain distributions received from underlying funds on the Statements of Operations. Consent fees relating to corporate actions are recorded as miscellaneous income upon receipt. Expenses are recorded on an accrual basis and such expenses exclude those of the underlying funds. Expenses of the underlying funds are reflected in the net asset values of those funds.

(d) Federal Income Taxes.  The Funds intend to distribute all of their taxable income and to comply with the other requirements of Subchapter M of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for U.S. federal income taxes is required. The Funds may be subject to excise tax based on distributions to shareholders.

Accounting for uncertainty in income taxes establishes for all entities, including pass-through entities such as the Funds, a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of positions taken in filing tax returns (including whether an entity is taxable in a particular jurisdiction), and requires certain expanded tax disclosures. In accordance with provisions set forth under U.S. GAAP, the Investment Adviser has reviewed the Funds’ tax positions for all open tax years. As of June 30, 2019, the Funds have recorded no liability for net unrecognized tax benefits relating to uncertain income tax positions they have taken. The Funds’ U.S. federal income tax returns for the prior three years, as applicable, remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.

(e) Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders.  Dividends from net investment income, if any, of each Fund (except AllianzGI Income & Growth, AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value, AllianzGI NFJ International Value and AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value), are declared and distributed to shareholders annually. Dividends from net investment income and/or distributions from short-term capital gains for AllianzGI Income & Growth, if any, are declared and distributed monthly. Dividends from net investment income, if any, for AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value, AllianzGI NFJ International Value and AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value are declared and distributed quarterly. Net realized capital gains, if any, earned by each Fund, will be distributed annually. The Funds record dividends and distributions to their respective shareholders on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital

 

 

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gains is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. These “book-tax” differences are considered either temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their U.S. federal income tax treatment. Temporary differences do not require reclassification. To the extent dividends and/or distributions exceed current and accumulated earnings and profits for U.S. federal income tax purposes, they are reported as dividends and/or distributions to shareholders from return of capital.

(f) Multi-Class Operations.  Each class offered by the Funds has equal rights as to assets and voting privileges (except that shareholders of a class have exclusive voting rights regarding any matter relating solely to that class of shares). Income, non-class specific expenses, and realized and unrealized capital gains and losses of each Fund are allocated daily to each class of shares based on the relative net assets of each class. Class specific expenses, where applicable, include administration and distribution and servicing fees.

(g) Foreign Currency Translation.  The Funds’ accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars as follows: (1) the foreign currency market values of investments and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the prevailing exchange rate at the end of the period; and (2) purchases and sales, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing exchange rate on the respective dates of such transactions. The resulting net foreign currency gain (loss) is included in the Funds’ Statements of Operations.

The Funds do not generally isolate that portion of the results of operations arising as a result of changes in foreign currency exchange rates from the fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of securities. Accordingly, such foreign currency gain (loss) is included in net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments. However, the Funds do isolate the effect of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates when determining the gain (loss) upon the sale or maturity of foreign currency denominated debt obligations pursuant to U.S. federal income tax regulations; such amount is categorized as foreign currency gain (loss) for both financial reporting and income tax reporting purposes.

(h) Repurchase Agreements.  The Funds are parties to Master Repurchase Agreements (“Master Repo Agreements”) with select counterparties. The Master Repo Agreements include provisions for initiation of repurchase transactions, income payments, events of default, and maintenance of collateral.

The Funds enter into transactions, under the Master Repo Agreements, with their custodian bank or securities brokerage firms whereby they purchase securities under agreements (i.e., repurchase agreements) to resell such securities at an agreed upon price and date. The Funds, through their custodian, take possession of securities collateralizing the repurchase agreement. Such agreements are carried at the contract amount in the financial statements, which is considered to represent fair value. The collateral that is pledged (i.e.

the securities received by the Funds), which consists primarily of U.S. government obligations and asset-backed securities, is held by the custodian bank for the benefit of the Funds until the maturity of the repurchase agreement. Provisions of the repurchase agreements and the procedures adopted by the Funds require that the market value of the collateral, including accrued interest thereon, be sufficient in the event of default by the counterparty. If the counterparty defaults under the Master Repo Agreements and the value of the collateral declines or if the counterparty enters an insolvency proceeding, realization of the collateral by the Funds may be delayed or limited. The gross values are included in the Funds’ Schedules of Investments. As of June 30, 2019, the value of the related collateral exceeded the value of the repurchase agreements for each Fund.

(i) Securities Sold Short.  Certain Funds engage in short sales for investment and risk management purposes. Short sales are transactions in which a Fund sells a security or other instrument (such as an option, forward, future or other derivative contract) it does not own. When a Fund engages in a short sale, it must borrow the security sold short and deliver it to the counterparty. The Funds will ordinarily have to pay a fee or premium to borrow a security and be obligated to repay the lender of the security any dividend or interest that accrues on the security during the period of the loan. Until a short position is closed out, the net proceeds of the short sale will be retained by the lending broker to the extent necessary to meet margin requirements, together with any additional assets the broker requires as collateral. This collateral earns interest and the interest is used to pay each lender a fee for borrowed securities, to compensate the broker for its services, and to provide a rebate to the borrower (the Fund) for posting the collateral. The net proceeds from these transactions are shown as miscellaneous income or miscellaneous expense on the Statements of Operations. A Fund is also required to designate, on its books or the books of its custodian, liquid assets (less any additional collateral held by the broker) to cover the short sale obligation, marked to market daily. Short sales expose the Funds to the risk that they will be required to cover the short position at a time when the security or other asset has appreciated in value, thus resulting in losses to the applicable Fund. A short sale is “against the box” if a Fund holds in its portfolio or has the right to acquire the security sold short at no additional cost. The Funds will be subject to additional risks to the extent that they engage in short sales that are not “against the box.” A Fund’s loss on a short sale could theoretically be unlimited in cases where the Fund is unable, for whatever reason, to close out its short position.

(j) Warrants.  The Funds may receive warrants. Warrants are securities that are usually issued together with a debt security or preferred stock and that give the holder the right to buy a proportionate amount of common stock at a specified price. Warrants may be freely transferable and are often traded on major exchanges. Warrants normally have a life that is measured in years and entitle the holder to buy common stock of a company at a price that is usually higher than the market price at the time the warrant is issued. Warrants may entail greater risks than certain other types of

 

 

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investments. Generally, warrants do not carry the right to receive dividends or exercise voting rights with respect to the underlying securities, and they do not represent any rights in the assets of the issuer. In addition, their value does not necessarily change with the value of the underlying securities, and they cease to have value if they are not exercised on or before their expiration date. If the market price of the underlying stock does not exceed the exercise price during the life of the warrant, the warrant will expire worthless. Warrants may increase the potential profit or loss to be realized from the investment as compared with investing the same amount in the underlying securities. Similarly, the percentage increase or decrease in the value of an equity security warrant may be greater than the percentage increase or decrease in the value of the underlying common stock. Warrants may relate to the purchase of equity or debt securities. Debt obligations with warrants attached to purchase equity securities have many characteristics of convertible securities and their prices may, to some degree, reflect the performance of the underlying stock. Debt obligations also may be issued with warrants attached to purchase additional debt securities at the same coupon rate. A decline in interest rates would permit a Fund to sell such warrants at a profit. If interest rates rise, these warrants would generally expire with no value.

(k) Rights.  The Funds may receive rights. A right is a privilege granted to existing shareholders of a corporation to subscribe for shares of a new issue of common stock before it is issued. Rights normally have a short life, usually two to four weeks, are freely transferable and entitle the holder to buy the new common stock at a lower price than the public offering price. Rights may entail greater risks than certain other types of investments. Generally, rights do not carry the right to receive dividends or exercise voting rights with respect to the underlying securities, and they do not represent any rights in the assets of the issuer. In addition, their value does not necessarily change with the value of the underlying securities, and they cease to have value if they are not exercised on or before their expiration date. If the market price of the underlying stock does not exceed the exercise price during the life of the right, the right will expire worthless. Rights may increase the potential profit or loss to be realized from the investment as compared with investing the same amount in the underlying securities.

(l) Exchange-Traded Funds.  Certain Funds may invest in exchange-traded-funds (“ETFs”), which typically are index-based investment companies that hold substantially all of their assets in securities representing their specific index, but may also be actively-managed investment companies. Shares of ETFs trade throughout the day on an exchange and represent an investment in a portfolio of securities and other assets. As a shareholder of another investment company, the Funds would bear their pro rata portion of the other investment company’s expenses, including advisory fees, in addition to the expenses the Funds bear directly in connection with their own operations.

(m) Convertible Securities.  Certain Funds may invest a portion of their assets in convertible securities. Although convertible securities

derive part of their value from that of the securities into which they are convertible, they are not considered derivative financial instruments. However, certain of the Funds’ investments in convertible securities include features which render them sensitive to price changes in their underlying securities. The value of structured/synthetic convertible securities can be affected by interest rate changes and credit risks of the issuer. Such securities may be structured in ways that limit their potential for capital appreciation and the entire value of the security may be at risk of loss depending on the performance of the underlying equity security. Consequently, the Funds are exposed to greater downside risk than traditional convertible securities, but typically still less than that of the underlying stock.

(n) Payment In-Kind Securities.  The Funds may invest in payment in-kind securities, which are debt or preferred stock securities that require or permit payment of interest in the form of additional securities. Payment in-kind securities allow the issuer to avoid or delay the need to generate cash to meet current interest payments and, as a result, may involve greater risk than securities that pay interest currently or in cash.

(o) Loan Interest Expense.  Loan interest expense relates to the amounts borrowed under the credit facility (See Note 12). Loan interest expense is recorded as it is incurred.

(p) Contingent Value Rights.  A Fund may invest in contingent value rights (“CVRs”). A CVR gives the holder the right to receive an amount (which may be a fixed amount or determined by a formula) in the event that a specified corporate action, business milestone, or other trigger occurs (or does not occur) which is often subject to an expiration date. CVRs often are awarded to shareholders in the context of a corporate acquisition or major restructuring. For example, shareholders of an acquired company may receive a CVR that enables them to receive additional shares of the acquiring company in the event that the acquiring company’s share price falls below a certain level by a specified date. Risks associated with the use of CVRs are generally similar to risks associated with the use of options, such as the risk that the required trigger does not (or does) occur prior to a CVR’s expiration, causing the CVR to expire with no value. CVRs also present illiquidity risk, as they may not be registered securities or may otherwise be non-transferable or difficult to transfer, as well as counterparty risk and credit risk. Further, because CVRs are valued based on the likelihood of the occurrence of a trigger, valuation often requires modeling and judgment, which increases the risk of mispricing or improper valuation.

(q) Restricted Securities.  The Funds are permitted to invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expenses, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult.

(r) New Accounting Pronouncements.  In March 2017, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. (“ASU”) 2017-08, “Receivables—Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic 310-20): Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt

 

 

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Securities.” ASU 2017-08 shortens the amortization period for certain callable debt securities, held at a premium, to be amortized to the earliest call date rather than the contractual maturity date. The Funds have adopted and applied ASU 2017-08 on a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect adjustment as of July 1, 2018. The adoption of ASU 2017-08 had no impact on beginning net assets, the current period results from operations, or any prior period information presented in the financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework—Changes to the disclosure requirements for fair value measurement”. ASU 2018-13 removes the disclosure requirements for the amounts of and reasons for transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, the policy for timing of transfers between levels and the valuation processes for Level 3 fair value measurements. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those annual periods. Management has reviewed ASU 2018-13 and resolved to adopt immediately certain aspects of the ASU related to the removal of certain fair measurement disclosures.

On October 17, 2018, the SEC adopted changes to Regulation S-X to simplify the reporting of information by registered investment companies in financial statements. The amendments require presentation of the total, rather than the components, of distributable earnings on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities and also require presentation of the total, rather than the components, of distributions to shareholders, except for tax return of capital distributions, if any, on the Statements of Changes in Net Assets. The amendments also removed the requirement for parenthetical disclosure of undistributed net investment income on the Statements of Changes in Net Assets. These Regulation S-X amendments are reflected in the Funds’ financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2019. The distributions to shareholders in the June 30, 2018 Statements of Changes in Net Assets presented herein have not been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

 

2.

PRINCIPAL RISKS

In the normal course of business, the Funds trade financial instruments and enter into financial transactions where risk of potential loss exists due to, among other things, changes in the market (market risk) or failure of the other party to a transaction to perform (counterparty risk). The Funds are also exposed to other risks such as, but not limited to, interest rate, foreign currency, credit and leverage risks.

Interest rate risk is the risk that fixed income securities’ valuations will change because of changes in interest rates. During periods of rising nominal interest rates, the values of fixed income instruments are generally expected to decline. Conversely, during periods of declining nominal interest rates, the values of fixed income instruments are generally expected to rise. To the extent that a Fund effectively has short positions with respect to fixed income instruments, the values of such short positions would generally be expected to rise when nominal interest rates rise and to decline when nominal interest rates

decline. A nominal interest rate can be described as the sum of a real interest rate and an expected inflation rate. Fixed income securities with longer durations tend to be more sensitive to changes in interest rates, usually making them more volatile than securities with shorter durations. Duration is used primarily as a measure of the sensitivity of a fixed income security’s market price to interest rate (i.e., yield) movements. Interest rate changes can be sudden and unpredictable, and Funds may lose money as a result of movements in interest rates. High-yield or junk bonds are subject to greater levels of credit and liquidity risk, may be speculative and may decline in value due to increase in interest rates or an issuer’s deterioration or default. The Funds may not be able to hedge against changes in interest rates or may choose not to do so for cost or other reasons. In addition, any hedges may not work as intended. The values of equity and other non-fixed income securities may also decline due to fluctuations in interest rates.

Variable and floating rate securities generally are less sensitive to interest rate changes but may decline in value if their interest rates do not rise as much, or as quickly, as interest rates in general. Conversely, floating rate securities will not generally increase in value if interest rates decline. Inverse floating rate securities may decrease in value if interest rates increase. Inverse floating rate securities may also exhibit greater price volatility than a fixed rate obligation with similar credit quality. When the Funds hold variable or floating rate securities, a decrease (or, in the case of inverse floating rate securities, an increase) in market interest rates will adversely affect the income received from such securities and the NAV of the Funds’ shares.

The Funds are exposed to credit risk, which is the risk of losing money if the issuer or guarantor of a fixed income security is unable or unwilling, or is perceived (whether by market participants, rating agencies, pricing services or otherwise) as unable or unwilling, to make timely principal and/or interest payments, or to otherwise honor its obligations. Securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk, which are often reflected in credit ratings.

To the extent the Funds directly invest in foreign currencies or in securities that trade in, and receive revenues in, foreign currencies, or in derivatives that provide exposure to foreign currencies, they will be subject to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar, or, in the case of hedging positions, that the U.S. dollar will decline in value relative to the currency being hedged. Currency rates in foreign countries may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time for a number of reasons, including economic growth, inflation, changes in interest rates, intervention (or the failure to intervene) by U.S. or foreign governments, central banks or supranational entities such as the International Monetary Fund, or the imposition of currency controls or other political developments in the United States or abroad. As a result, the Funds’ investments in foreign currency-denominated securities may reduce the returns of the Funds. The local emerging market currencies in which the Funds may be invested may experience substantially greater volatility against the U.S. dollar than the major convertible currencies in developed countries.

 

 

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The Funds are subject to elements of risk not typically associated with investments in the U.S., due to concentrated investments in foreign issuers located in a specific country or region. Such concentrations will subject the Funds to additional risks resulting from future political or economic conditions in such country or region and the possible imposition of adverse governmental laws or currency exchange restrictions affecting such country or region, which could cause the securities and their markets to be less liquid and prices more volatile than those of comparable U.S. companies.

The market values of securities may decline due to general market conditions (market risk) which are not specifically related to a particular company, such as real or perceived adverse economic conditions, changes in the general outlook for corporate earnings, changes in interest or currency rates, adverse changes to credit markets or adverse investor sentiment. They may also decline due to factors that affect a particular industry or industries, such as labor shortages or increased production costs and competitive conditions within an industry. Equity securities and equity-related investments generally have greater market price volatility than fixed income securities, although under certain market conditions fixed income securities may have comparable or greater price volatility. Credit ratings downgrades may also negatively affect securities held by the Funds. Even when markets perform well, there is no assurance that the investments held by the Funds will increase in value along with the broader market. In addition, market risk includes the risk that geopolitical events will disrupt the economy on a national or global level.

Certain of the Funds invest in ETFs. Shareholders will indirectly bear fees and expenses associated with the ETFs in which a Fund invests, in addition to a Fund’s direct fees and expenses. The cost of investing in a Fund, therefore, may be higher than the cost of investing in a mutual fund that invests directly in individual stocks and bonds. In addition, a Fund’s net asset value will be subject to fluctuations in the market values of the ETFs in which it invests. A Fund is also subject to the risks associated with the securities or other investments in which the ETFs invest, and the ability of a Fund to meet its investment objective will directly depend on the ability of the ETFs to meet their investment objectives. An index based ETF’s performance may not match that of the index it seeks to track.

The Funds are exposed to counterparty risk, or the risk that an institution or other entity with which the Funds have unsettled or open transactions will default. The potential loss to the Funds could exceed the value of the financial assets recorded in the Funds’ financial statements. Financial assets, which potentially expose the Funds to counterparty risk, consist principally of cash due from counterparties and investments. The Investment Adviser seeks to minimize the Funds’ counterparty risk by performing reviews of each counterparty and by minimizing concentration of counterparty risk by undertaking transactions with multiple customers and counterparties on recognized and reputable exchanges. Delivery of securities sold is only made once the Funds have received payment. Payment is made on a purchase once the securities have been delivered by the counterparty. The trade will fail if either party fails to meet its obligation.

The Funds are exposed to risks associated with leverage. Leverage may cause the value of the Funds’ shares to be more volatile than if the Funds did not use leverage. This is because leverage tends to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of the Funds’ portfolio securities. The Funds may engage in transactions or purchase instruments that give rise to forms of leverage. In addition, to the extent the Funds employ leverage, dividend and interest costs on such leverage may not be recovered by any appreciation of the securities purchased with the leverage proceeds and could exceed the Funds’ investment returns, resulting in greater losses.

The Funds may hold defaulted securities that may involve special considerations including bankruptcy proceedings, other regulatory and legal restrictions affecting the Funds’ ability to trade, and the availability of prices from independent pricing services or dealer quotations. Defaulted securities are often illiquid and may not be actively traded. Sale of securities in bankrupt companies at an acceptable price may be difficult and differences compared to the value of the securities used by the Funds could be material. A Fund may incur additional expenses to the extent it is required to seek recovery upon a portfolio security’s default in the payment of principal or interest. In any bankruptcy proceeding relating to a defaulted investment, a Fund may lose its entire investment or may be required to accept cash or securities with a value substantially less than its original investment.

Short sales may be used by certain Funds. When a Fund engages in a short sale on a security, it must borrow the security sold short and deliver it to the counterparty. The Fund will ordinarily have to pay a fee or premium to borrow particular securities and be obligated to repay the lender of the security any dividends or interest that accrue on the security during the period of the loan. The amount of any gain from a short sale will be decreased, and the amount of any loss increased, by the amount of the premium, dividends, interest or expenses a Fund pays in connection with the short sale. Short sales expose a Fund to the risk that it will be required to cover its short position at a time when the securities have appreciated in value, thus resulting in a loss to the Fund.

Investments in senior loans and repurchase agreements also involve special risks. Although typically secured, senior loans may not be backed by sufficient collateral to satisfy their issuers’ obligations in the event of bankruptcy or similar scenarios. Senior loans may also be illiquid. Similarly, repurchase agreements may result in losses if the collateral associated with such positions is insufficient in the event of a counterparty default or similar scenario. Repurchase agreement positions may also be illiquid.

The considerations and factors surrounding the settlement of certain purchases and sales made on a delayed-delivery basis are governed by Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreements (“Master Forward Agreements”) between the Funds and select counterparties. The Master Forward Agreements maintain provisions for, among other things, initiation and confirmation, payment and transfer, events of default, termination, and maintenance of collateral.

 

 

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The counterparty risk associated with certain contracts may be reduced by master netting arrangements to the extent that if an event of default occurs, all amounts with the counterparty are terminated and settled on a net basis. The Funds’ overall exposure to counterparty risk with respect to transactions subject to master netting arrangements can change substantially within a short period, as it is affected by each transaction subject to the arrangement.

The Funds may invest in other investment companies, including investment companies advised by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates. Investing in other investment companies involves certain additional expenses and tax results that would not be present in a direct investment in such other investment companies. Each Fund’s NAV will fluctuate in response to changes in the NAVs of the other investment companies in which it invests. The extent to which the investment performance and risks associated with each Fund correlate to those of a particular investment company will depend upon the extent to which each Fund’s assets are allocated from time to time for investment in such investment company, which will vary. To the extent that a Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in another investment company, it will be particularly sensitive to the risks associated with that investment company.

 

3.

FINANCIAL DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS

Disclosure about derivatives and hedging activities requires qualitative disclosure regarding objectives and strategies for using derivatives, quantitative disclosure about fair value amounts of gains and losses on derivatives, and disclosure about credit-risk-related contingent features in derivative agreements. The disclosure requirements distinguish between derivatives which are accounted for as “hedges”, and those that do not qualify for such accounting. Although the Funds at times use derivatives for hedging purposes, the Funds reflect derivatives at fair value and recognize changes in fair value through the Funds’ Statements of Operations, and such derivatives do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment.

Option Transactions.  The Funds purchase put and call options on securities and indices for hedging purposes, risk management purposes or otherwise as part of their investment strategies. The risks associated with purchasing an option include the risk that the Funds pay a premium whether or not the option is exercised. Additionally, the Funds bear the risk of loss of premiums and changes in market value should the counterparty not perform under the contract. Put and call options purchased are accounted for in the same manner as portfolio securities. The cost of securities acquired through the exercise of call options is increased by the premiums paid. The proceeds from securities sold through the exercise of put options are decreased by the premiums paid.

The Funds may write (sell) put and call options on securities and indices to earn premiums, for hedging purposes, risk management purposes or otherwise as part of their investment strategies. When an option is written, the premium received is recorded as an asset with an equal liability that is subsequently marked to market to reflect the

market value of the option written. These liabilities, if any, are reflected as options written in the Funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities. Premiums received from writing options which expire unexercised are recorded on the expiration date as a realized gain. The difference between the premium received and the amount paid on effecting a closing purchase transaction, including brokerage commissions, is also treated as a realized gain, or if the premium is less than the amount paid for the closing purchase transaction, as a realized loss. If a call option written is exercised, the premium is added to the proceeds from the sale of the underlying security in determining whether there has been a realized gain or loss. If a put option written is exercised, the premium reduces the cost basis of the security. In writing an option, the Funds bear the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security underlying the written option. Exercise of a written option could result in the Funds purchasing a security at a price different from its current market value.

There are several risks associated with option transactions on securities. For example, there are significant differences between the securities and options markets that could result in an imperfect correlation between these markets, causing a given transaction not to achieve its objective. The Funds’ ability to use options successfully will depend on the Investment Adviser’s ability to predict pertinent market movements, which cannot be assured. As the writer of a covered call option, a Fund foregoes, during the option’s life, the opportunity to profit from increases in the market value of the security covering the call option above the sum of the premium and the strike price of the call, but has retained the risk of loss should the price of the underlying security decline.

Forward Foreign Currency Contracts.  A forward foreign currency contract is an agreement between two parties to buy and sell a currency at a set exchange rate on a future date. The Funds enter into forward foreign currency contracts for the purpose of hedging against foreign currency risk arising from the investment or anticipated investment in securities denominated in foreign currencies. The Funds also enter into these contracts for purposes of increasing exposure to a foreign currency or shifting exposure to foreign currency fluctuations from one country to another. The market value of a forward foreign currency contract fluctuates with changes in foreign currency exchange rates. All commitments are marked to market daily at the applicable exchange rates and any resulting unrealized appreciation or depreciation is recorded. Realized gains or losses are recorded at the time the forward contract matures or by delivery of the currency. Risks may arise upon entering into these contracts from the potential inability of counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts and from unanticipated movements in the value of a foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar. In addition, these contracts may involve market risk in excess of the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) reflected in the Funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities.

The following is a summary of the Funds’ derivatives categorized by risk exposure.

 

 

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The effect of derivatives on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities at June 30, 2019:

 

AllianzGI Income & Growth:      
Location   Market Price  

Liability derivatives:

 

Options written, at value

  $   (760,940

 

AllianzGI Technology:      
Location   Market Price  

Asset derivatives:

 

Investments, at value (options purchased)

  $   2,659,800  

Liability derivatives:

 

Options written, at value

  $ (437,500

The effect of derivatives on the Statements of Operations for the year ended June 30, 2019:

 

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources:  
Location   Market Price     Foreign
Exchange
Contracts
    Total  

Net realized gain on:

     

Options written

  $   1,475           $ 1,475  

Forward foreign currency contracts

        $ 53       53  

Total net realized gain

  $ 1,475     $   53     $   1,528  
     
AllianzGI Income & Growth:      
Location   Market Price  

Net realized gain on:

 

Options written

  $ 3,813,150  

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of:

 

Options written

  $ (825,515
 
AllianzGI Technology:      
Location   Market Price  

Net realized loss on:

 

Investments (options purchased)

  $ (4,526,862

Options written

    (2,123,063

Total net realized loss

  $ (6,649,925

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of:

 

Investments (options purchased)

  $   (16,877,980

Options written

    (5,861,193

Total net change in unrealized
appreciation/depreciation

  $ (22,739,173

The average volume (based on the open positions at each month-end) of derivative activity during the year ended June 30, 2019:

 

    Options
Purchased
    Options
Written
    Forward
Foreign
Currency
Contracts(2)
 
     Contracts (1)     Contracts (1)     Purchased     Sold  

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

          (16           † 

AllianzGI Income & Growth

          (19,254            

AllianzGI Technology

    6,346       (10,272            

 

Fund had derivative activity during the period but it did not have open positions at any month-end in the period.

(1)

Number of contracts

(2)

U.S. $ value on origination date

 

4.

INVESTMENT ADVISER/ADMINISTRATOR/DISTRIBUTOR FEES/EXPENSES & DEFERRED COMPENSATION

Investment Advisory Fee.  AllianzGI U.S. serves as the investment adviser to the Funds, pursuant to an investment advisory contract. AllianzGI U.S. receives a monthly fee (the “Investment Advisory Fee”) from each Fund at an annual rate based on the average daily net assets of each Fund.

Administration Fee.   AllianzGI U.S. provides administrative services to the Funds and also bears the cost of most third-party administrative services required by the Funds, and in return it receives from each share class of each Fund a monthly administration fee based on each share class’ average daily net assets (the “Administration Fee”).

 

 

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The Investment Advisory Fee and Administration Fee for all classes are charged at an annual rate as indicated in the following table:

 

    All Classes     Class A, C, and R     Class P     Institutional Class     Class R6     Administrative Class  
     Investment
Advisory
Fee
    Effective
Advisory
Fee
    Administ-
ration
Fee
    Effective
Administ-
ration
Fee
    Administ-
ration
Fee
    Effective
Administ-
ration
Fee
    Administ-
ration
Fee
    Effective
Administ-
ration
Fee
    Administ-
ration
Fee
    Effective
Administ-
ration
Fee
    Administ-
ration
Fee
    Effective
Administ-
ration
Fee
 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities(1)

    0.85     0.65 %(4)      0.50     0.34 %(5)      0.50     0.34 %(5)      0.40     0.24 %(5)      0.35     0.19 %(5)      N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Focused Growth(3)

    0.45       0.35 (6)      0.40       (7)      0.40       0.40       0.30       0.30       0.25       0.25       0.30     0.30

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources(2)

    0.70       0.70       0.45       0.45       0.45       0.45       0.35       0.35       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap(2)

    0.90       0.90       0.45       0.45       0.45       0.45       0.35       0.35       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Health Sciences(3)

    0.80       0.80       0.40       0.40       N/A       N/A       0.30       0.30       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Income & Growth(3)

    0.65       0.64 (9)      0.40       0.37       0.40       0.37       0.30       0.27       N/A       N/A       N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Mid-Cap(3)

    0.47       0.47       0.40       0.40       0.40       0.40       0.30       0.30       N/A       N/A       0.30       0.30  

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value(3)

    0.45       0.35 (10)      0.40       0.39       0.40       0.39       0.30       0.29       0.25       0.24       0.30       0.29  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value(1)

    0.60       0.55 (11)      0.50       0.47 (12)      0.50       0.47 (12)      0.40       0.37 (12)      0.35       0.32 (12)      0.40       0.37 (12) 

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value(3)

    0.45       0.45       0.40       0.40       0.40       0.40       0.30       0.30       N/A       N/A       0.30       0.30  

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value(3)

    0.55       0.55       0.40       0.17 (13)      0.40       0.17 (13)      0.30       0.07 (13)      0.25       0.02 (13)      0.30       0.07 (13) 

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value(3)

    0.60       0.54 (14)      0.40       0.37 (15)      0.40       0.37 (15)      0.30       0.27 (15)      0.25       0.22 (15)      0.30       0.27 (15) 

AllianzGI Small-Cap(3)

    0.60       0.60 (16)      0.40       0.31 (16)      0.40       0.31 (16)      0.30       0.21 (16)      0.25       0.15 (16)      N/A       N/A  

AllianzGI Technology(3)

    0.90       0.85 (8)      0.40       0.39       0.40       0.39       0.30       0.29       N/A       N/A       0.30       0.29  

 

(1)

The total Administration Fee rate for each class of shares shall be reduced according to the following schedule, each based on such Fund’s aggregate average daily net assets: by 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $250 million, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $500 million, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $1 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $2.5 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $5 billion and by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $7.5 billion. To the extent that any such reduction in the fee rate applies, the dollar amount of the fee reduction with respect to each share class is calculated and applied on a pro rata basis by reference to the percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to that class.

(2)

The total Administration Fee rate for each class of shares shall be reduced according to the following schedule, each based on such Fund’s aggregate average daily net assets: by 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $500 million, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $1 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $2.5 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $5 billion and by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $7.5 billion. To the extent that any such reduction in the fee rate applies, the dollar amount of the fee reduction with respect to each share class is calculated and applied on a pro rata basis by reference to the percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to that class.

(3)

The total Administration Fee rate for each class of shares shall be reduced according to the following schedule, each based on such Fund’s aggregate average daily net assets: by 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $1 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $2.5 billion, by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $5 billion and by an additional 0.025% per annum on assets in excess of $7.5 billion. To the extent that any such reduction in the fee rate applies, the dollar amount of the fee reduction with respect to each share class is calculated and applied on a pro rata basis by reference to the percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to that class.

(4)

The Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Investment Advisory Fee currently in place, which reduces the 0.85% contractual fee rate by 0.20% to 0.65%. An identical waiver arrangement has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(5)

The Administrator has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees, which reduces the contractual fee rate by 0.15%. This waiver has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(6)

The Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Investment Advisory Fee currently in place, which reduces the 0.45% contractual fee rate by 0.10% to 0.35%.

(7)

The Administrator has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees for Class A and Class T shares currently in place, which reduces the contractual fee rate by 0.02%.

(8)

The Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of the Investment Advisory Fee, which reduces the 0.90% contractual fee rate by 0.01% on net assets in excess of $2 billion, by an additional 0.015% on net assets in excess of $3 billion and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $5 billion, each based on the Fund’s average daily net assets. An identical waiver arrangement has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year. The Adviser had contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2018, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Investment Advisory Fee currently in place, which reduced the 0.90% contractual fee rate by 0.15% to 0.75%.

 

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(9)

The Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of the Investment Advisory Fee, which reduces the 0.65% contractual fee rate by 0.01% on net assets in excess of $2 billion, by an additional 0.015% on net assets in excess of $3 billion and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $5 billion, each based on the Fund’s average daily net assets. An identical waiver arrangement has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(10)

The Adviser had contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2018, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Investment Advisory Fee, which reduced the 0.45% contractual fee rate by 0.15% to 0.30%. Effective November 1, 2018 through October 31, 2019, the Adviser has contractually agreed to observe an irrevocable waiver of a portion of it’s Investment Advisory fee, which reduces the 0.45% contractual fee rate by 0.075% to 0.375%, and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $7.5 billion, and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $10 billion, each based on the Fund’s average daily net assets.

(11)

The Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of the Investment Advisory Fee, which reduces the 0.60% contractual fee rate by 0.05% to 0.55%, and an additional 0.01% on net assets in excess of $4 billion, by an additional 0.015% on net assets in excess of $5 billion and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $7.5 billion, each based on the Fund’s average daily net assets. An identical waiver arrangement has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(12)

The Administrator has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees, which reduces the contractual fee rate by 0.025%. This waiver has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(13)

The Administrator has contractually agreed to observe through September 30, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees for all classes, which reduces the contractual fee rate by 0.22%. An identical waiver arrangement has been in effect since before the beginning of the Fund’s most recent fiscal year.

(14)

Effective November 1, 2018, the Adviser has contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2019, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of the Investment Advisory Fee, which reduces the 0.60% contractual fee rate by 0.10% to 0.50%, and then by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $3 billion, by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $4 billion and by an additional 0.025% on net assets in excess of $5 billion, each based on the Fund’s average daily net assets. From November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2018, the previously mentioned breakpoint was in place without the 0.10% irrevocable waiver of a portion of the Investment Advisory Fee.

(15)

The Administrator had contractually agreed to observe, through October 31, 2018, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees which reduced the contractual fee rate by 0.05%.

(16)

Effective August 1, 2018, the Investment Advisory Fee was reduced by 0.05% from 0.65% to 0.60%. The Administrator has contractually agreed to observe, through August 31, 2020, an irrevocable waiver of a portion of its Administration Fees for all classes, which reduces the contractual fee rate by 0.10%.

The effective Administration Fee rate for Class A is 0.38%; for Class C and Class R is 0.40%, respectively.

 

Distribution and Servicing Fees.  Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC (the “Distributor”), an affiliate of AllianzGI U.S., serves as the distributor of the Trust’s shares. The Funds are permitted to reimburse the Distributor on a quarterly basis, out of the Administrative Class assets of each Fund offering Administrative Class shares, in an amount up to 0.25% on an annual basis of the average daily net assets of that class, for payments made to financial intermediaries that provide services in connection with the distribution of shares or administration of plans or programs that use Fund shares as their funding medium. Unreimbursed costs may be carried forward for reimbursement for up to twelve months beyond the date in which they are incurred, subject always to the limit that not more than 0.25% of the average daily net assets attributable to the Administrative Class may be expensed.

Pursuant to the Distribution and Servicing Plans adopted by the A, C and R classes, the Distributor receives (i) in connection with the distribution of C and R class shares of the Trust, certain distribution fees from the Trust, and (ii) in connection with personal services rendered to A, C and R class shareholders of the Trust and the maintenance of shareholder accounts, certain servicing fees from the Trust.

The Funds paid the Distributor distribution and/or servicing fees at an effective rate as set forth below (calculated as a percentage of each Fund’s average daily net assets attributable to each class):

 

     Allowable Rate  
     

Distribution

Fee

      

Servicing

Fee

 

Class A

       

All Funds

              0.25

Class C

       

All Funds

     0.75        0.25  

Class R

       

All Funds

     0.25          0.25  

The Distributor also receives the proceeds of the initial sales charges paid by the shareholders upon the purchase of Class A shares and contingent deferred sales charges (“CDSC”) paid by the shareholders upon certain redemptions of Class A and C shares. For the year ended June 30, 2019, the Distributor received $1,935,759, representing commissions (sales charges) and CDSC from the Funds.

Expenses.  The Trust is responsible for the following expenses: (i) salaries and other compensation of any of the Trust’s executive officers and employees who are not officers, directors, stockholders or employees of the Investment Adviser or its subsidiaries or affiliates; (ii) taxes and governmental fees; (iii) brokerage fees and commissions and other portfolio transaction expenses; (iv) the costs of borrowing money, including interest expense and bank overdraft charges; (v) fees and expenses of the Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Investment Adviser or the Trust, and any counsel or other experts retained exclusively for their benefit; (vi) extraordinary expenses, including costs of litigation and indemnification expenses; (vii) organization expenses, if any and (viii) any expenses allocated or allocable to a specific class of shares, which include service fees payable with respect to the Administrative Class shares and may include certain other expenses as permitted by the Trust’s Amended and Restated Multi-Class Plan adopted pursuant to Rule 18f-3 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and subject to review and approval by the Trustees. The Funds may invest in other investment companies, including investment companies advised or sub-advised by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates. Investing in other investment companies involves certain additional expenses and tax results that would not be present in a direct investment in such other investment companies. The ratio of expenses to average net assets per share class, as disclosed in the Financial Highlights, may differ from the estimated annual fund operating expenses per share class as disclosed in the Prospectus for the reasons set forth above.

 

 

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Deferred Compensation.  The Trustees do not currently receive any pension or retirement benefits from the Trust. In calendar year 2018 and certain prior periods, the Trust maintained a deferred compensation plan pursuant to which each Independent Trustee had the opportunity to elect not to receive all or a portion of his or her fees from the Trust on a current basis, but instead to receive in a subsequent period chosen by the Trustee an amount equal to the value of such compensation if such compensation had been invested in one or more series of Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust or the Trust selected by the Trustees from and after the normal payment dates for such compensation. The deferred compensation program was closed to new deferrals effective January 1, 2019, and all Trustee fees earned with respect to service in calendar year 2019 and beyond have been or will be paid in cash, on a current basis, unless the Board of Trustees of the Allianz-Sponsored Funds reopens the program to new deferrals. Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust and the Trust still have obligations with respect to Trustee fees deferred in 2018 and in prior periods, and will continue to have such obligations until all deferred Trustee fees are paid out pursuant to the terms of the deferred compensation plan.

5.

INVESTMENTS IN SECURITIES

For the year ended June 30, 2019, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term securities were:

 

     Purchases     Sales  

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $ 386,081,260     $ 350,420,218  

AllianzGI Focused Growth

    519,734,377       657,392,743  

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    11,626,640       17,470,780  

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    131,623,185       178,015,184  

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    153,409,479       169,418,721  

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    3,152,698,411       2,604,609,596  

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    177,810,966       211,689,455  

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    854,156,172       1,517,712,277  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    106,549,413       205,893,351  

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    235,920,832       257,413,439  

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

      1,060,324,237         1,026,437,357  

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    733,253,260       1,725,064,954  

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    91,328,542       74,969,098  

AllianzGI Technology*

    1,610,653,193       1,754,591,856  

 

*

Securities sold short of $1,237,366; covers on securities sold short of $1,267,514.

 

 

6.

INCOME TAX INFORMATION

The tax character of dividends and distributions paid by the Funds was:

 

    Period or Year ended June 30, 2019     Period or Year ended June 30, 2018  
     Ordinary
Income(1)
    15% Long-term
Capital Gain
    25% Long-term
Capital Gain
    Ordinary
Income(1)
    15% Long-term
Capital Gain
    25% Long-term
Capital Gain
    Return of
Capital
 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $ 8,214,183                 $ 3,886,963                    

AllianzGI Focused Growth

        $   117,884,601             392,499     $ 15,598,567              

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    279,284                   56,108                    

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    3,913,582       22,639,586     $ 11,503       4,235,167       11,864,121              

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    2,479,547       17,793,811                                

AllianzGI Income & Growth

      334,655,872       5,082,690       30,000         285,477,976                    

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    6,580,701       29,491,252             9,591,486       21,002,144              

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    53,260,507       280,436,188       1,361       40,466,152         481,271,285              

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    3,353,472                   5,733,709                 $   148,994  

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    5,431,742       660,709             5,857,321                    

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    14,423,689       5,789,993             35,710,900       58,203,575     $   85,617        

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    52,935,930       269,347,930         120,893       51,068,905       393,814,909              

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    2,958,426       4,395,852       362       2,809,776       7,945,539              

AllianzGI Technology

    42,412,898       224,014,360             65,005,991       162,326,956              

 

(1)

Includes short-term capital gains, if any.

 

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At June 30, 2019, the components of distributable earnings were:

 

    Undistributed
Ordinary
Income
    Undistributed
15% Long-term
Capital Gain
    Undistributed
25% Long-term
Capital Gain
    Capital Loss
Carryforwards(2)
    Late Year
Ordinary
Loss(3)
       
  Post-October Capital Loss(4)  
  Short-Term     Long-Term  

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $   6,872,475                 $ 19,342,348           $   24,547,612     $ 72,938  

AllianzGI Focused Growth

        $ 94,821,337                 $ 555,099       38,640,246        

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    231,698                   9,890,473       3,735       870,633       (342,309

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

          7,489,273                         5,500,425        

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    1,556,069       4,930,900                                

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    6,963,707       450,696                                

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

          14,995,540                   983,679       7,068,913        

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

          75,088,600                         28,405,320        

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    572,958                     447,194,042                    

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    189,350                               9,274,093       (2,528,293

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    6,519,374       38,488,272                         3,581,573        

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

          23,232,265                         66,745,177         (45,055,765

AllianzGI Small-Cap

                                  3,624,785       (1,849,971

AllianzGI Technology

            166,804,424                     7,055,732       21,352,310        

 

(2)

Capital loss carryforwards available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of any future net realized gains. To the extent that these losses are used to offset future realized capital gains, such gains will not be disbursed.

(3)

Certain ordinary losses realized during the period November 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, and/or other ordinary losses realized during the period January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019, which the Funds elected to defer to the following taxable year pursuant to income tax regulations.

(4)

Capital losses realized during the period November 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019 which the Funds elected to defer to the following taxable year pursuant to income tax regulations.

Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, the Funds are permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 22, 2010, for an unlimited period. Post-enactment capital losses that are carried forward will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses rather than being considered all short-term capital losses.

At June 30, 2019, capital loss carryforward amounts were:

 

      Short-Term        Long-Term  

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

   $ 19,342,348           

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

     6,793,822        $ 3,096,651  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

       260,398,219            186,795,823  

For the year ended June 30, 2019, the Funds utilized the following amounts of capital loss carryforwards:

 

      Short-Term
losses utilized
       Long-Term
losses utilized
 

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

            $ 107,601  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

                9,387,790  

 

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For the year ended June 30, 2019, permanent “book-tax” adjustments were:

 

     Undistributed
(Dividends in
Excess of)
Net Investment
Income
    Accumulated
Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Paid-in-Capital    

Appreciation/

Depreciation

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities(b)(f)(k)

  $ (589,902   $ 593,788     $ (3,886      

AllianzGI Focused Growth(d)

    976,360               (976,360      

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources(f)

    (5,891     5,891              

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap(b)(c)(d)(f)(g)

    258,743       (178,944     (76,197   $   (3,602

AllianzGI Health Sciences(b)(f)

    474,031       (474,031            

AllianzGI Income & Growth(g)(i)(j)

      5,890,509         (5,890,509            

AllianzGI Mid-Cap(d)(f)

    2,839,356       58,408       (2,897,764      

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value(a)(c)(f)(g)

    (1,775,082     1,775,082              

AllianzGI NFJ International Value(b)(f)

    (23,166     23,166              

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value(a)(c)(g)

    (42,908     42,908              

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value(c)(e)(f)(g)(h)

    (1,385,719     1,616,266       41,836       (272,383

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value(e)(f)(g)(h)(m)

    8,406,935         (39,235,988     24,669,298         6,159,755  

AllianzGI Small-Cap(a)(b)(d)(g)(h)(l)

    (1,277     214,352       (191,918     (21,157

AllianzGI Technology(d)(f)

      13,733,080       125,943         (13,859,023      

These permanent “book-tax” differences were primarily attributable to:

 

(a)

Reclassification of distributions.

(b)

Reclassification of gains from securities classified as Passive Foreign Investment Companies (“PFICs”) for tax purposes.

(c)

Reclassification from sales of securities with return of capital.

(d)

Net operating losses.

(e)

Non-deductible costs due to sales of partnerships.

(f)

Reclassification of gains and losses from foreign currency transactions.

(g)

Reclassifications related to investments in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

(h)

Reclassifications related to investments in partnerships.

(i)

Section 305 sales adjustment.

(j)

Reclassification of contingent debt.

(k)

Non-deductible excise tax.

(l)

Taxable overdistributions.

(m)

Redemptions treated as distributions.

Net investment income, net realized gains or losses and net assets were not affected by these adjustments.

At June 30, 2019, the aggregate cost basis and the net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments in securities and other financial instruments for federal income tax purposes were:

 

     Federal Tax
Cost Basis(5)
    Unrealized
Appreciation
    Unrealized
Depreciation
    Net Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $ 346,994,655     $ 38,413,338     $ 8,846,809     $ 29,566,529  

AllianzGI Focused Growth

    647,520,041       407,511,977       9,731,190       397,780,787  

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    11,815,648       700,320       378,126       322,194  

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    112,507,967       23,154,749       3,960,984       19,193,765  

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    135,079,542       25,459,460       4,501,378       20,958,082  

AllianzGI Income & Growth

      4,988,367,464       100,147,730         562,079,681         (461,931,951

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    241,801,401       73,888,096       2,632,216       71,255,880  

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    1,188,187,678       201,475,608       32,948,173       168,527,435  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    174,352,595       15,080,614       10,010,614       5,070,000  

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    327,075,360       27,085,827       9,778,770       17,307,057  

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    1,168,449,594       182,816,714       25,144,378       157,672,336  

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    941,030,347       182,343,932       52,039,740       130,304,192  

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    95,311,457       18,842,110       3,088,883       15,753,227  

AllianzGI Technology

    1,050,112,819         583,918,739       8,831,605       575,087,134  

 

(5)

Differences, if any, between book and tax cost basis are primarily attributable to wash sale loss deferrals, PFIC mark-to-market, differing treatment of bond premium amortization, basis adjustments from investments in partnerships, mark-to-market adjustments on section 1256 spot contracts, and Section 305 adjustments.

 

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7.

SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST

The Trust may issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest with $0.0001 par value. Changes in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:

 

    AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities     AllianzGI Focused Growth        
 
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount         

Shares sold:

                   

Class A

    268,619     $ 7,217,505       697,928     $ 20,810,440       3,957,145     $ 230,547,285       845,049     $ 45,026,886          

Class C

    16,147       410,475       33,859       1,000,458       237,512       7,807,792       199,107       7,318,588          

Class R

      —         —         —         —       130,920       5,187,343       133,299       5,479,120          

Class P

    352,083       9,091,300       563,064       16,657,768       684,624       27,975,772       839,524       34,751,624          

Institutional Class

       5,354,528          145,969,084          5,829,537          183,882,754          589,652          28,467,542          897,756          43,898,753          

Class R6

    244,198       6,497,525       920,330       29,036,041       648,134       30,278,729       1,562,011       79,373,546          

Administrative Class

                            38,603       1,971,024       17,863       852,078          
 

Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions:

 

             

Class A

    37,329       916,062       41,566       1,241,997       1,264,993       54,065,784       86,993       4,626,289          

Class C

    592       14,456       786       23,182       266,353       7,377,992       116,094       4,297,789          

Class R

                            83,352       2,609,751       8,375       341,603          

Class P

    20,942       501,782       13,849       405,788       354,870       11,338,112       32,582       1,344,967          

Institutional Class

    232,119       5,693,881       60,550       1,817,696       416,583       16,292,546       63,927       3,135,604          

Class R6

    24,240       591,467       498       14,883       338,307       13,248,091       12,985       637,345          

Administrative Class

                            15,646       568,421       1,540       71,074          
 

Cost of shares redeemed:

 

               

Class A

    (2,312,650     (64,223,641     (2,748,849     (80,949,799     (1,811,609     (94,018,724     (1,530,183     (81,276,063        

Class C

    (168,881     (4,468,000     (89,122     (2,659,097     (5,022,966     (204,819,789     (1,026,181     (38,161,076        

Class R

                            (183,497     (7,438,619     (169,477     (6,978,684        

Class P

    (666,508     (17,465,149     (335,061     (10,020,087     (1,230,579     (47,289,017     (614,723     (25,121,226        

Institutional Class

    (2,051,506     (54,282,563     (1,722,594     (53,937,449     (1,064,847     (51,812,375     (2,122,703     (105,917,209        

Class R6

    (241,071     (6,409,258     (97,151     (3,006,277     (409,798     (19,780,076     (250,018     (12,412,457        

Administrative Class

                            (22,413     (1,102,078     (43,814     (2,068,060        

Net increase (decrease) resulting from Fund share transactions

    1,110,181     $ 30,054,926       3,169,190     $ 104,318,298       (719,015   $ 11,475,506       (939,994   $ (40,779,509        

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1 or less than 1 share.

 

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      AllianzGI Global Natural Resources     AllianzGI Global Small-Cap     AllianzGI Health Sciences  
   
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
       Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
                           
          75,279     $ 1,112,678       105,939     $ 1,575,623       182,657     $ 8,479,807       83,184     $ 4,244,889       246,715     $ 8,399,331       86,357     $ 2,801,477  
          25,966       389,023       9,008       125,928       13,645       500,947       33,805       1,531,603       28,328       702,965       10,459       271,090  
            —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —  
          26,683       381,175       110,809       1,737,713       91,215       3,811,875       72,253       3,943,050                          
             102,865          1,521,155          226,220          3,493,152          205,859          9,810,581          162,556          8,908,540          95,913          3,042,298          34,004            1,128,578  
                                                                             
                                                                             
   
                                    
          6,938       85,340       1,014       15,872       254,078       8,310,892       90,251       4,491,798       674,933       18,634,889              
          1,122       12,975             2       69,797       1,927,792       40,033       1,756,267       29,367       623,175              
                                                                             
          3,357       41,893                   41,648       1,469,340       17,947       947,048                          
          9,214       116,191       2,086       33,503       369,475          13,171,798       145,643            7,743,818       11,595       324,420              
                                                                             
                                                                             
   
                                    
          (187,050     (2,646,485     (425,769     (6,543,832     (351,706     (13,990,314     (252,928     (12,931,724     (605,927     (19,209,271     (614,264     (19,853,094
          (81,341     (1,115,775     (91,805     (1,284,764     (296,247     (11,728,861     (101,780     (4,592,282     (201,451     (5,567,805     (108,952     (2,809,024
                                                                             
          (138,349     (1,878,798     (101,951     (1,533,966     (192,848     (7,992,579     (216,159     (11,519,088                        
          (275,795     (4,074,569     (434,005     (6,699,510     (787,779     (34,330,501     (779,135     (41,888,099     (61,267     (2,002,588     (65,031     (2,129,884
                                                                             
                                                                             
       

 

(431,111

  $ (6,055,197     (598,454   $ (9,080,279     (400,206   $ (20,559,223     (704,330   $ (37,364,180     218,206     $ 4,947,414       (657,427   $ (20,590,857

 

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    AllianzGI Income & Growth     AllianzGI Mid-Cap        
 
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount         

Shares sold:

                   

Class A

    41,382,233     $ 454,899,809       33,772,645     $ 386,348,881       34,421,548     $    134,256,480       2,593,888     $    10,045,894          

Class C

    34,217,239       346,930,172       20,620,016       218,600,150       650,165       1,783,093       424,664       1,380,308          

Class R

    224,610       2,466,861       171,240       1,953,034       121,412       433,020       297,665       1,127,022          

Class P

    47,385,649       533,269,666       32,638,485       382,338,888       905,697       3,633,083       1,473,845       6,481,066          

Institutional Class

    32,549,042       371,932,052       17,530,636          207,098,156       1,762,730       7,253,419       1,646,838       7,270,598          

Class R6

                                                       

Administrative Class

                            37,587       142,036       212,388       915,290          
 

Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions:

 

               

Class A

    9,562,038          104,635,655       7,604,961       86,778,417       8,735,577       24,085,907       2,104,396       7,912,529          

Class C

    8,650,069       87,008,778       7,548,126       79,690,897       1,440,361       3,162,218       5,010,740       15,733,723          

Class R

    31,419       343,496       19,912       227,297       63,092       170,148       62,655       232,450          

Class P

    5,654,704       63,437,381       4,117,228       48,042,746       335,351       1,072,570       135,406       576,829          

Institutional Class

    4,232,229       47,895,410       2,734,032       32,176,468       1,068,157       3,438,239       541,021       2,320,981          

Class R6

                                                       

Administrative Class

                            55,660       163,523       30,491       121,353          
 

Cost of shares redeemed:

 

               

Class A

    (28,677,604       (313,221,154     (28,283,166       (323,787,507     (9,160,991     (31,143,673     (4,835,052       (18,793,034        

Class C

    (27,028,004     (271,243,863     (25,916,477     (274,222,576     (39,239,512       (130,038,680     (5,840,802     (19,118,611        

Class R

    (90,982     (987,313     (71,876     (823,566     (189,750     (653,794     (612,039     (2,324,109        

Class P

    (30,988,364     (344,028,854     (19,558,217     (228,922,268     (1,112,672     (4,488,191     (1,123,777     (4,948,975        

Institutional Class

    (14,427,667     (160,815,113     (10,605,368     (124,696,671     (1,733,318     (7,146,904     (1,361,639     (5,972,622        

Class R6

                                                       

Administrative Class

                            (63,233     (237,112     (38,280     (155,304        

Net increase (decrease) resulting from Fund share transactions

    82,676,611     $ 922,522,983       42,322,177     $ 490,802,346       (1,902,139   $ 5,885,382       722,408     $ 2,805,388          

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1 or less than 1 share.

 

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      AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value     AllianzGI NFJ International Value     AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value  
   
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
       Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
                                    
          11,313,357     $ 160,679,320       2,887,835     $ 46,170,379       1,209,396     $ 21,910,051       672,137     $ 13,052,413       2,041,454     $ 56,350,922       268,456     $ 7,057,856  
          631,855       7,621,144       577,836       9,243,294       28,057       479,855       75,609       1,451,967       84,599       2,188,878       48,157       1,289,667  
          527,472       6,693,820       448,571       7,236,995       72,665       1,308,299       97,061       1,891,755       11,595       314,013       35,122       928,774  
          5,601,788       67,818,148       6,160,359       98,362,137       217,867       3,906,233       1,287,288       24,898,377       126,157       3,352,016       261,209       6,970,343  
          3,180,003       43,151,601       4,691,958       77,966,645       493,776       8,984,985       595,344       11,716,809       449,862       11,791,096       798,491       20,880,744  
          816,704       10,596,590       1,166,043       19,609,108       29,903       547,843       120,088       2,389,745                          
          389,033       5,215,973       1,182,779       20,386,645       20,222       362,630       41,662       816,977       10,773       283,103       8,554       225,849  
   
                                    
          8,603,057       91,771,627       7,104,995       108,288,914       65,410       1,163,992       86,907       1,641,914       100,269       2,601,467       82,594       2,130,259  
          1,550,267       16,835,328       3,417,871       52,594,833       7,567       132,250       23,940       442,642       5,291       143,588       20,592       531,053  
          1,449,485       15,468,682       1,557,309       23,651,696       5,192       92,441       6,959       131,632       1,366       36,380       3,227       83,705  
          6,500,134       70,165,546       6,885,804       105,788,156       34,618       620,705       84,932       1,613,308       12,869       339,075       11,565       301,863  
          5,850,039       63,026,975       7,232,947       111,189,140       50,379       906,302       64,628       1,230,045       96,666       2,510,825       89,013       2,293,260  
          1,462,567       15,698,988       1,335,037       20,468,353       1,609       28,658       2,394       45,698                          
          1,206,182       13,203,073       1,499,167       23,408,044       2,333       40,736       5,021       95,035       838       22,170       872       22,813  
   
                                    
          (15,011,198     (186,349,526     (12,322,123     (203,194,915     (2,154,736     (37,906,923     (3,025,449     (58,604,394     (1,072,771     (28,418,904     (1,016,387     (26,608,387
          (11,613,283     (169,595,677     (4,259,604     (70,024,894     (1,256,420     (22,357,425     (1,166,265     (22,270,887     (2,000,144     (56,114,974     (569,979     (15,070,758
          (2,317,010     (30,660,555     (3,201,945     (53,568,123     (243,205     (4,386,885     (231,634     (4,471,696     (132,987     (3,709,071     (126,484     (3,452,445
          (18,158,983     (228,744,792     (12,968,268     (210,551,432     (2,989,399     (52,767,678     (4,712,928     (92,817,017     (202,995     (5,481,385     (246,102     (6,540,742
          (16,927,973     (220,910,069     (24,742,226     (425,352,619     (1,045,715     (18,990,289     (1,732,226     (34,002,855     (503,342     (13,275,287     (705,510     (18,159,402
          (2,602,536     (33,374,156     (2,296,447     (39,348,087     (61,401     (1,100,132     (1,588,350     (30,157,473                        
          (3,392,334     (43,265,010     (16,944,762     (314,378,786     (205,207     (3,521,325     (59,964     (1,172,975     (10,918     (300,641     (11,127     (307,226
 

    

    

 

 

    (20,941,374   $  (324,952,970     (30,586,864   $  (592,054,517     (5,717,089   $  (100,545,677     (9,352,846   $  (182,078,980     (981,418   $  (27,366,729     (1,047,737   $  (27,422,774

 

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    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value     AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value        
 
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
       
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount         

Shares sold:

                   

Class A

    6,698,495     $ 204,685,318       5,474,465     $ 173,724,735       7,098,648     $ 130,945,310       8,002,039     $ 170,545,062          

Class C

    630,222       15,246,842       1,212,825       31,570,305       84,780       1,077,299       153,952       3,165,825          

Class R

    358,914       9,057,683       514,498       14,005,436       205,692       3,727,798       185,326       4,554,851          

Class P

    4,293,177       101,871,414       7,595,411       195,683,218       717,227       13,249,790       959,748       24,310,328          

Institutional Class

    5,936,147       186,319,815       10,697,534       358,873,216       3,242,577       62,341,662       4,334,370       110,523,206          

Class R6

    560,276       17,538,456       72,675     2,393,103     3,019,919       57,555,186       5,901,430       150,915,358          

Administrative Class

    594,563       18,054,348       503,048       16,428,121       911,459       14,873,708       1,142,638       26,108,406          
 

Issued in reinvestment of dividends and distributions:

 

               

Class A

    296,346       7,931,688       1,354,254       42,523,329       9,034,371       112,929,635       4,827,870       105,247,566          

Class C

    9,718       240,700       681,614       17,599,274       258,108       2,893,396       1,101,049       21,415,391          

Class R

    12,096       279,668       30,983       835,615       445,976       6,092,035       306,683       7,121,185          

Class P

    151,593       3,261,952       416,454       10,577,921       584,374       8,432,510       348,613       8,453,860          

Institutional Class

    202,468       5,761,385       348,217       11,672,240       6,135,775       89,336,886       6,448,975       157,290,488          

Class R6

    7,723       220,071       581     19,437     2,768,426       40,059,127       2,686,009       65,270,025          

Administrative Class

    13,345       368,552       29,432       952,725       2,756,274       34,315,616       2,273,516       49,403,503          
 

Cost of shares redeemed:

 

               

Class A

    (4,772,658     (139,781,481     (4,891,003       (152,623,468       (18,946,945       (333,203,625     (12,111,632       (280,714,536        

Class C

    (6,123,795       (154,795,781     (937,401     (24,452,518     (5,531,901     (99,879,070     (1,865,524     (38,724,388        

Class R

    (209,787     (5,294,056     (142,851     (3,871,309     (884,803     (16,636,078     (880,383     (21,666,359        

Class P

    (4,670,512       (110,205,538       (1,800,360     (46,108,843     (1,661,186     (30,717,023     (1,324,234     (33,475,597        

Institutional Class

    (4,076,024     (128,754,450     (2,311,349     (77,076,555     (24,363,929     (484,952,787     (24,043,187     (617,520,460        

Class R6

    (84,239     (2,605,186     (5,809 )#      (187,935 )#      (11,202,983     (227,278,706     (11,619,999     (290,169,735        

Administrative Class

    (350,996     (10,485,274     (79,644     (2,578,415     (5,772,549     (98,884,720     (8,895,129     (205,325,747        

Net increase (decrease) resulting from Fund share transactions

    (522,928   $ 18,916,126       18,763,574     $ 569,959,632       (31,100,690   $   (713,722,051     (22,067,870   $   (583,271,768        

 

May reflect actual amounts rounding to less than $1 or less than 1 share.

#

For the period December 18, 2017 (commencement of share class) through June 30, 2018. “Shares sold” includes shares sold to Allianz Fund Investments, Inc.

##

For the period August 22, 2018 (commencement of share class) through June 30, 2019. “Shares sold” includes shares sold to AZOA.

 

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      AllianzGI Small-Cap     AllianzGI Technology  
 
      Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
    Year ended
June 30, 2019
    Year ended
June 30, 2018
 
       Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
                 
          1,600,232     $ 34,264,966       273,818     $ 5,934,103       2,550,443     $ 179,133,866       1,478,124     $ 101,162,454  
          92,047       1,720,365       78,065       1,577,299       257,142       12,544,036       193,418       10,375,838  
                                                     
          254,122       5,248,183       207,122       4,396,841       1,128,423       84,211,489       515,793       39,908,557  
          288,688       5,869,487       251,379       5,346,531       3,351,624       247,227,588       3,418,373          262,754,728  
          891,912 ##         17,601,066 ##                                     
                                  75,889       5,389,576       79,796       5,835,992  
 
                 
          298,477       4,867,765       222,628       4,506,000       1,934,896       96,280,422       1,130,136       70,158,803  
          44,482       695,030       217,696       4,282,069       300,556       10,621,661       474,556       22,849,887  
                                                     
          39,051       644,904       19,088       389,394       332,385       18,733,242       128,482       8,794,567  
          33,246       553,729       25,372       520,890       2,155,428          124,109,570       1,604,511       111,641,922  
          2,227 ##      43,874 ##                                     
                                  56,513       3,019,512       39,515       2,594,161  
 
                 
          (576,351     (11,497,437     (346,997     (7,387,795     (2,484,799     (161,222,406     (2,636,487     (181,082,964
          (1,391,922     (28,904,196     (253,016     (5,202,287     (1,982,776     (111,120,158     (457,029     (24,550,804
                                                     
          (120,551     (2,401,996     (76,666     (1,643,999     (587,099     (41,087,752     (271,258     (20,102,726
          (234,956     (4,873,058     (54,207     (1,140,319     (4,534,231     (329,752,909     (6,195,191     (450,675,239
          (12 )##      (238 )##                                     
                                  (272,847     (18,770,552     (44,893     (3,224,000
                 
          1,220,692     $ 23,832,444       564,282     $    11,578,727       2,281,547     $ 119,317,185       (542,154   $ (43,558,824

 

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8.

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNT HOLDERS

From time to time, a Fund may have a concentration of shareholders, which may include the Investment Adviser or affiliates of the Investment Adviser, holding a significant percentage of shares outstanding. Investment activities of these shareholders could have a material impact to a Fund.

At June 30, 2019, the significant account-holders, owners of 5% or greater of each respective Fund’s outstanding shares were as follows:

 

     Unaffiliated  
     Number of
Account
Holders
    Approximate
Ownership
 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

    3       78

AllianzGI Focused Growth

    6       55

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    5       64

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    6       71

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    3       58

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    9       84

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    7       62

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    8       69

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    8       68

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    10       73

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    8       61

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    4       50

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    6       59

AllianzGI Technology

    3       44

 

9.

AFFILIATED TRANSACTIONS

An affiliate includes any company in which a Fund held 5% or more of a company’s outstanding voting securities at any point during the reporting period. The table below represents transactions in and earnings from these affiliated issuers during the year ended June 30, 2019:

 

AllianzGI Income & Growth:                                
     Market Value
6/30/2018
    Purchases
at Cost
    Proceeds
from
Sales
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)*
    Market Value
6/30/2019
    Dividend
Income
    Shares as
of 6/30/2019
    Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
    Net Capital
Gain
Distributions
Received
 

CCF Holdings LLC, Class B

                    $ 4     $ 4             42,857              

LiveStyle, Inc. †

  $ 20                         20             202,319              

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. B†

    17,134,400                         17,134,400             171,344              

LiveStyle, Inc., Ser. B†

    80                         80             8,000              

Totals

  $   17,134,500                 $   4     $   17,134,504             424,520              

 

Not affiliated at June 30, 2018.

*

Does not tie to Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the Statements of Operations as a result of previously unaffiliated securities moving to affiliated.

 

10.

FUND EVENTS

(a) New Share Class

Effective August 22, 2018, AllianzGI Small-Cap began offering Class R6 shares.

(b) Class Conversion

As of September 30, 2018 (the “Class C Conversion Date”), all Class C shares of a Fund that were purchased ten years or more prior to the Class C Conversion Date automatically converted to Class A shares of the same Fund. After the Class C Conversion Date, all Class C shares of a Fund held in accounts directly with the Trust’s transfer agent will automatically convert to Class A shares of the same Fund on or about the first business day of the month following the ten-year anniversary of purchase. After the Class C Conversion Date, all Class C shares of a Fund held through a financial intermediary (subject to the exceptions noted below) will automatically convert to Class A shares of the same Fund following the ten-year anniversary of purchase.

 

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Although the timing of this conversion may differ from the timing stated above, it is expected to occur during the month following the ten-year anniversary of purchase. Such conversions will be effected on the basis of the relative net asset values of the Class C and Class A shares involved in the conversion. When Class C shares convert, any other Class C shares that were acquired by the shareholder by the reinvestment of dividends or distributions will also convert to Class A shares on a pro rata basis. The Board’s approval of the conversion feature in the Trust’s Multi-Class plan is subject to the limitation that if, after the Class C Conversion Date, the Class A shareholders of a Fund approve any material increase in expenses allocated to that class (including 12b-1 Fees) without the approval of the then-existing Class C shareholders, Class C shares will cease automatically converting into Class A shares.

Class C shares held through a financial intermediary in an omnibus account will be converted into Class A shares only if the intermediary can document that the shareholder has met the required holding period. It is the financial intermediary’s (and not the Funds’) responsibility to keep records and to ensure that the shareholder is credited with the proper holding period. Not all financial intermediaries are able to track purchases to credit individual shareholder’s holding periods. In particular, the Trust understands that group retirement plans held through third party intermediaries that hold Class C shares in an omnibus account in certain instances do not track participant level share lot aging. Please consult with your financial intermediary about your eligibility to exercise this conversion privilege.

 

11.

PAYMENTS FROM AFFILIATES

During the year ended June 30, 2018, AllianzGI U.S. reimbursed AllianzGI Global Small-Cap $78,097 for realized losses resulting from a trading error.

During the year ended June 30, 2019, AllianzGI U.S. reimbursed AllianzGI Income & Growth $2,600 for realized losses resulting from a trading error.

 

12.

BORROWINGS

The Trust entered into a credit agreement (the “State Street Agreement”), among the Trust, AllianzGI Institutional Multi-Series Trust, Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust and Premier Multi-Series VIT, as borrowers (collectively, the “AllianzGI Borrowers” and each series thereof, an “AllianzGI Borrower Fund”), and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as agent and lender, for a committed line of credit. The State Street Agreement permits the AllianzGI Borrowers to borrow up to $200 million in aggregate, subject to (i) a requirement that each AllianzGI Borrower Fund’s asset coverage with respect to senior securities representing indebtedness be 300% or higher, and (ii) certain other limitations and conditions. Each AllianzGI Borrower Fund must pay interest on any amounts borrowed under the facility at a rate per annum equal to 1.25% plus the higher of the then-current federal funds overnight rate or the one-month LIBOR rate, subject to upward adjustment when any past due payments are outstanding. The State Street Agreement was extended by an additional 364-day

period by an amendment effective October 25, 2018 with an expiration date of October 24, 2019 (the “Amendment”). The Amendment changed a 0.25% usage fee on undrawn amounts, which had previously applied, to an annualized rate of 0.20%, to be allocated pro rata among the AllianzGI Borrower Funds on the basis of net assets. Amounts borrowed may be repaid and reborrowed on a revolving basis during the term of the facility.

The following Funds utilized the line of credit during the period ended June 30, 2019. The average balance outstanding is for the number of days that the Funds had an outstanding balance.

 

    

Average

Amount

Borrowed

During the

Period

   

Average

Interest Rate

   

Number of

Days

Outstanding

During the

Period

   

Outstanding

Borrowings at

June 30, 2019

 

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

  $ 32,413,333       3.76     15       0  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

  $ 3,167,500       3.76     12       0  

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

  $ 16,394,444       3.76     18       0  

Pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the SEC (the “Order”), the Funds are authorized to enter into a master interfund lending agreement (the “Interfund Program”) with each other and certain funds advised by the Investment Adviser (each a “Participating Fund”). The Interfund Program allows each Participating Fund, whose policies permit it to do so, to lend money directly to and borrow money directly from other Funds for temporary purposes. During the year ended June 30, 2019, the Funds did not participate as a borrower or lender in the Interfund Program.

 

13.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The Investment Adviser and the Distributor are related parties. Fees payable to and amounts due from these parties are disclosed in Note 4 and the accrued related party fee and receivable amounts are disclosed on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities.

Certain Funds are permitted to purchase or sell securities from or to certain related affiliated funds under specified conditions outlined in procedures adopted by the Board. The procedures have been designed to ensure that any purchase or sale of securities by the Funds from or to another fund or portfolio that are, or could be, considered an affiliate by virtue of having a common investment adviser (or affiliated investment advisers), common Trustees and/or common officers comply with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. Further, as defined under the procedures, each transaction is effected at the current market price.

During the year ended June 30, 2019, AllianzGI Income & Growth engaged in purchases of securities pursuant to Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act in the amount of $5,608,356.

 

 

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June 30, 2019

 

14.

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

In preparing these financial statements, the Funds’ management has evaluated events and transactions for potential recognition or disclosure through the date the financial statements were issued.

On July 18, 2019, AllianzGI Income & Growth declared per-share net investment income dividends and short-term capital gain distributions to shareholders, payable July 18, 2019 to shareholders of record on July 17, 2019 as follows:

 

Share Class   Dividend Rate     Short-Term
Capital Gains
 

Class A

  $ 0.02424     $ 0.04576  

Class C

  $ 0.01828     $ 0.04576  

Class R

  $ 0.02179     $ 0.04576  

Class P

  $ 0.02649     $ 0.04576  

Institutional Class

  $   0.02743     $   0.04576  

On August 22, 2019, AllianzGI Income & Growth declared per-share net investment income dividends and short-term capital gain distributions to shareholders, payable August 22, 2019 to shareholders of record on August 21, 2019 as follows:

 

Share Class   Dividend Rate     Short-Term
Capital Gains
 

Class A

  $ 0.02579     $ 0.04421  

Class C

  $ 0.01993     $ 0.04421  

Class R

  $ 0.02345     $ 0.04421  

Class P

  $ 0.02796     $ 0.04421  

Institutional Class

  $ 0.02890     $ 0.04421  

There were no other subsequent events identified that require recognition or disclosure.

    

 

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Board of Trustees of Allianz Funds and Shareholders of AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund, AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund, AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund, AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund, AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund, AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund and AllianzGI Technology Fund

Opinions on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, of AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund, AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund, AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund, AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund, AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund, AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund and AllianzGI Technology Fund (constituting Allianz Funds, hereafter collectively referred to as the “Funds”) as of June 30, 2019, the related statements of operations for the year ended June 30, 2019, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2019, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds as of June 30, 2019 the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2019 and each of the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinions

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of June 30, 2019 by correspondence with the custodians, and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

New York, New York

August 22, 2019

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in the Allianz Global Investors U.S. group of investment companies since at least 1995. We have not determined the specific year we began serving as auditor.

 

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Changes to the Board of Trustees

 

Effective January 1, 2019, Alan Rappaport was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Trust.

Effective January 1, 2019, Sarah E. Cogan became a Trustee of the Trust.

Effective March 21, 2019, A. Douglas Eu resigned as a Trustee of the Trust and Thomas J. Fuccillo became a Trustee of the Trust. Mr. Fuccillo is an “interested person” of the Trust, as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act, due to his position with the Investment Manager and its affiliates.

 

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Federal Income Tax Information

 

As required by the Internal Revenue Code, shareholders must be notified regarding certain tax attributes of distributions made by each fund.

During the year ended June 30, 2019, the following Funds distributed long-term capital gains in the amounts indicated (or the maximum amount allowable):

 

     15% Long-Term
Capital Gain
    25% Long-Term
Capital Gain
 

AllianzGI Focused Growth

  $   117,884,601        

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    22,639,586     $ 11,503  

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    17,793,811        

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    5,082,690       30,000  

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    29,491,252        

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    280,436,188       1,361  

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    660,709        

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    5,789,993          

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    293,185,397         120,893  

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    4,395,852       362  

AllianzGI Technology

    224,014,360        

Under the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the following percentages of ordinary dividends paid during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, are designated as “qualified dividend income”:

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

    86

AllianzGI Focused Growth

    0

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    100

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    26

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    95

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    11

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    14

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    77

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    12

AllianzGI Technology

    10

Corporate shareholders are generally entitled to take the dividend received deduction on the portion of a Fund’s dividend distribution that qualifies under tax law. The percentage of the following Funds’ ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, that qualify for the corporate dividend received deduction is set forth below:

 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

    1

AllianzGI Focused Growth

    0

AllianzGI Global Natural Resources

    86

AllianzGI Global Small-Cap

    6

AllianzGI Health Sciences

    82

AllianzGI Income & Growth

    10

AllianzGI Mid-Cap

    14

AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    2

AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value

    100

AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value

    72

AllianzGI Small-Cap

    12

AllianzGI Technology

    8
 

 

Foreign Tax Credit. The following Funds had elected to pass through the credit for tax paid in foreign countries. The foreign income and foreign tax per share outstanding on June 30, 2019 are as follows:

 

     Gross
Foreign
Dividends
    Gross
Foreign
Dividends
Per Share
    Foreign Tax     Foreign Tax
Per Share
 

AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities

  $   11,787,946     $   0.895493     $   1,227,896     $   0.093279  

AllianzGI NFJ International Value

    7,148,081       0.596577       576,113       0.048082  

Since the Funds’ tax year is not the calendar year, another notification will be sent with respect to calendar year 2019. In January 2020, shareholders will be advised on IRS Form 1099-DIV as to the federal tax status of the dividends and distributions received during calendar year 2019. The amount that will be reported will be the amount to use on the shareholder’s 2019 federal income tax return and may differ from the amount which must be reported in connection with the Funds’ tax year ended June 30, 2019. Shareholders are advised to consult their tax advisers as to the federal, state and local tax status of the dividend income received from the Funds.

 

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Matters Relating to the Trustees’ Consideration of the Investment Advisory Agreement

 

The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, requires that both the full Board of Trustees (the “Board” or the “Trustees”) and a majority of the Trustees who are not interested persons of the Trust (the “Independent Trustees”), voting separately, annually approve the continuation of the Trust’s Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement (the “Agreement”) on behalf of each Fund (as defined below) with Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (the “Investment Adviser”). Throughout the process, the Independent Trustees received separate legal advice from independent legal counsel that is experienced in Investment Company Act of 1940 matters and that is independent of the Investment Adviser (“Independent Counsel”), and with whom they met separately from the Investment Adviser during the contract review meetings.

The Independent Trustees met in executive session on June 19, 2019 to consider whether to approve the continuation of the Agreement for an additional year. The Contracts Committee of the Board of Trustees, which is comprised of all of the Independent Trustees, held a conference call on June 5, 2019 and met in-person June 19, 2019 (the “contract review meetings”) with Independent Counsel to discuss the materials provided by the Investment Adviser in response to the Independent Trustees’ written request for information regarding the annual renewal. Representatives from fund management attended portions of those meetings to, among other topics, review the comparative fee and expense information and comparative performance information prepared and provided by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”), an independent third party, for each Fund using its respective Broadridge peer groups for performance and expense comparisons.

The Independent Trustees noted that they had most recently approved a continuation of the Agreement through December 31, 2019, and that the proposed continuation of the Agreement would extend the term to June 30, 2020. The Independent Trustees noted that this change in timing was intended to align the term of the Agreement with the terms of the advisory, distribution, administration, and other agreements of other Allianz investment companies.

At their meeting held on June 19, 2019, the Board and the Independent Trustees unanimously approved the continuation of the Agreement through June 30, 2020 with respect to AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund, AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund, AllianzGI Global-Small-Cap Fund, AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund, AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund, AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund, AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund, AllianzGI Technology Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund, AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund (each, a “Fund” and together, the “Funds”). The material factors and conclusions that formed the basis of these approvals for the Funds are discussed below.

In connection with their deliberations regarding the approval of the Agreement, the Independent Trustees considered such information

and factors as they believed, in light of the legal advice furnished to them and their own business judgment, to be relevant. As described below, the Independent Trustees considered the nature, quality and extent of the various investment management, administrative, and other services to be performed by the Investment Adviser under the Agreement.

In evaluating the Agreement with respect to each Fund, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed extensive materials provided by the Investment Adviser in response to questions submitted by the Independent Trustees and Independent Counsel, and met with senior representatives of the Investment Adviser regarding its personnel, operations, and financial condition as they relate to the Funds. The Board also considered the broad range of information relevant to the annual contract review that is provided to the Board (including its various standing committees) at meetings throughout the year, including reports on investment performance, portfolio risk, and other portfolio information for each Fund, including the use of derivatives if used as part of the Fund’s strategy, as well as periodic reports on, among other matters, pricing and valuation; quality and cost of portfolio trade execution; compliance; and shareholder and other services provided by the Investment Adviser and its affiliates. To assist with their review, the Independent Trustees reviewed fact cards for each Fund including, among other information, performance comparisons between the Funds and their Broadridge Performance Universe (as defined below), total return investment performance, investment objective, total net assets, annual fund operating expenses for each share class, portfolio managers, total expense ratio and management fee comparisons between each Fund and its Broadridge Expense Group (as defined below), and trends in the Investment Adviser’s profitability from its advisory relationship with each Fund. They also considered summaries assigning a quadrant placement to each Fund for an institutional and retail share class based on an average of certain measures of performance (including in relation to risk) and fees/expenses versus peer group medians. The Independent Trustees also considered the risk profiles of the Funds.

The Independent Trustees’ conclusions as to the approval of the Agreement were based on a comprehensive consideration of all information provided to the Independent Trustees and were not the result of any single factor. Individual Independent Trustees may have evaluated the information presented differently from one another, attributing different weights to various factors. The Independent Trustees recognized that the fee arrangements for the Funds are the result of review and discussion in the prior years between the Independent Trustees and the Investment Adviser, that certain aspects of such arrangements may receive greater scrutiny in some years than in others, and that the Independent Trustees’ conclusions may be based, in part, on their consideration of these same arrangements during the course of the year and in prior years. The Independent Trustees evaluated information available to them on a Fund-by-Fund basis, and their determinations were made separately in respect of

 

 

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each Fund. However, they also took into account the common interests of all series of the Trust in their review.

Performance Information

With respect to investment performance, the Independent Trustees considered information regarding each Fund’s short-, intermediate-, and long-term performance, as applicable, net of the Fund’s fees and expenses, both on an absolute basis and relative to an appropriate benchmark index that does not deduct the fees or expenses of investing, and compared to the performance of the Broadridge Performance Universe (as defined below). The Independent Trustees considered information provided by Broadridge for the Funds regarding the investment performance of a group of funds with investment classifications and/or objectives comparable to those of the Funds identified by Broadridge (the “Broadridge Performance Universe”), the performance of applicable benchmark indices, and the total return investment performance (based on net assets) of the Funds for various time periods. The Independent Trustees also reviewed performance in relation to certain measures of the degree of investment risk undertaken by the portfolio managers.

For Funds that underperformed, the Board considered the magnitude of that underperformance relative to the Broadridge Performance Universe and/or the benchmark (e.g., the amount by which a Fund underperformed, including, for example, whether the Fund slightly underperformed or significantly underperformed). In the case of those Funds that the Independent Trustees identified as having underperformed their benchmark indices and/or Broadridge Performance Universes to an extent, or over a period of time, that the Independent Trustees felt warranted additional inquiry, the Independent Trustees discussed with the Investment Adviser each such Fund’s performance, potential reasons for the underperformance, and, if necessary, steps that the Investment Adviser had taken, or intended to take, to improve performance. The Independent Trustees also met with the portfolio managers of certain Funds during the 12 months prior to voting on the contract renewal to discuss the Funds’ performance. The Independent Trustees considered the Investment Adviser’s responsiveness with respect to the Funds that experienced lagging performance. In this regard, with respect to the NFJ group of Funds, they noted recent changes in leadership and recent additions to the portfolio management and research personnel. The Independent Trustees noted that performance, especially short-term performance is only one of the factors that they deem relevant to their consideration of the Agreements and that, after considering all relevant factors, it may be appropriate to approve the continuation of the Agreements notwithstanding a Fund’s underperformance.

Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services

As part of their review, the Independent Trustees received and considered descriptions of various functions performed by the

Investment Adviser for the Funds, such as portfolio management, compliance monitoring, portfolio trading practices and oversight of third party service providers. They also considered information regarding the overall organization and business functions of the Investment Adviser, including, without limitation, information regarding senior management, portfolio managers and other personnel providing or proposed to provide investment management, administrative and other services, and corporate ownership and business operations unrelated to the Funds. The Independent Trustees examined the ability of the Investment Adviser to provide high-quality investment management and other services to the Funds. Among other information, the Independent Trustees considered the investment philosophy and research and decision-making processes of the Investment Adviser, as well as the Investment Adviser’s broker selection process and trading operations; the experience of key advisory personnel of the Investment Adviser and its affiliates, as applicable, responsible for portfolio management of the Funds; the ability of the Investment Adviser to attract and retain capable personnel; employee compensation; and the operational infrastructure, including technology and systems, of the Investment Adviser.

In addition, the Independent Trustees noted the extensive range of services that the Investment Adviser provides to the Funds beyond the investment management services. In this regard, the Independent Trustees reviewed the extent and quality of the Investment Adviser’s services with respect to regulatory compliance and ability to comply with the investment policies of the Funds; the compliance programs and risk controls of the Investment Adviser; the specific contractual obligations of the Investment Adviser pursuant to the Agreement; the nature, extent and quality of certain administrative services the Investment Adviser is responsible for providing to the Funds; the Investment Adviser’s risk management function; and conditions that might affect the ability of the Investment Adviser to provide high quality services to the Funds in the future under the Agreement, including, but not limited to, the organization’s financial condition and operational stability. The Independent Trustees also considered that the Investment Adviser assumes significant ongoing risks with respect to all Funds, including entrepreneurial and business risks the Investment Adviser has undertaken in serving as investment adviser and sponsor of the Funds, for which it is entitled to reasonable compensation. Specifically, its responsibilities include continual management of investment, operational, enterprise, legal, regulatory, and compliance risks as they relate to the Funds. The Independent Trustees also noted the Investment Adviser’s activities under its contractual obligation to oversee the Funds’ various outside service providers, including its negotiation of certain service providers’ fees and its evaluation of service providers’ infrastructure, cybersecurity programs, compliance programs, and business continuity programs, among other matters. It also considered the Investment Adviser’s ongoing development of its own infrastructure and information technology to support the Funds through, among other things, cybersecurity, business continuity planning, and risk management.

 

 

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Matters Relating to the Trustees’ Consideration of the Investment Advisory Agreement (cont’d)

 

The Independent Trustees considered, among other matters, that the Investment Adviser provides or procures through third-party service providers most administrative services that are required by the Funds under a separate Amended and Restated Administration Agreement (the “Administration Agreement”). These services include accounting, bookkeeping, tax, legal, audit, custody, transfer agency, sub-transfer agency, valuation and compliance services, preparation of prospectuses, shareholder reports and other regulatory filings, oversight and coordination of activities of third-party service providers and various shareholder services. The Independent Trustees took into account the “unitary” administrative fee structure applicable to the Funds, under which certain third-party services that are ordinarily the financial responsibility of a mutual fund (e.g., audit, custody, accounting, legal, transfer agency, sub-transfer agency and printing services) are, in the case of the Funds, paid for by the Investment Adviser out of its administrative fee. They also took into account that the Investment Adviser provides the Funds with office space, administrative services and personnel to serve as Fund officers, and that the Investment Adviser and its affiliates pay all of the compensation of the Funds’ interested Trustees and officers (in their capacities as employees of the Investment Adviser or such affiliates). Based on the foregoing, the Independent Trustees concluded that the Investment Adviser’s investment processes, research capabilities and philosophy were well-suited to each Fund given its investment objective and policies, that the Investment Adviser would be able to continue to meet any reasonably foreseeable obligations under the Agreement, and that the Investment Adviser would otherwise be able to provide services to the Funds of sufficient extent and quality.

Fee and Expense Information and Comparisons

In assessing the reasonableness of the Funds’ fees and expenses under the Agreement, the Independent Trustees considered, among other information, each Fund’s advisory fee and the Fund’s total expense ratio as a percentage of average daily net assets and information regarding the advisory fees and other expenses of comparable funds identified by Broadridge (the “Broadridge Expense Group”). Where a Fund’s advisory fees or total expense ratios were higher than the Broadridge Expense Group median, the Independent Trustees considered whether specific portfolio management, administration, or oversight needs contributed to the Fund’s advisory fees or total expense ratios. The Independent Trustees also noted certain advisory or administrative fee breakpoints, waivers or reductions for certain Funds that had been proposed by the Investment Adviser for continuation, or modification. With respect to certain Funds that underperformed for the one- and three-year periods relative to the median of the Broadridge Performance Universe, the Independent Trustees considered and discussed with the Investment Adviser whether any additional fee waivers were appropriate. The Independent Trustees also considered, among other items: (i) that the Funds pay a unitary administrative fee for non-advisory services, which differentiates the Funds from many in

the industry, (ii) current Fund asset levels as compared to prior years, and (iii) the Funds’ “active share,” i.e., the percentage of stock holdings in a Fund that differ from its benchmark index and discussed with the Investment Adviser the reasons some Funds may have lower active share than others.

To the extent applicable, the Independent Trustees considered information regarding the investment performance and fees for other funds and/or separately managed accounts, including institutional accounts, managed by the Investment Adviser or its affiliates with similar investment objective(s) and policies to those of the Funds, if any (“similar accounts”). Specifically, the Independent Trustees reviewed information showing the contractual advisory fees charged by the Investment Adviser to the similar accounts. In comparing these fees, the Independent Trustees considered information provided by the Investment Adviser as to the generally broader and more extensive services provided to the Funds in comparison to institutional or separate accounts; the higher demands placed on the Investment Adviser’s investment personnel and trading infrastructure as a result of the daily cash in-flows and out-flows of the Funds; the greater entrepreneurial risk in managing retail mutual funds; and the impact on the Investment Adviser and expenses associated with the more extensive regulatory regime to which the Funds are subject in comparison to institutional or separate accounts.

The Independent Trustees also considered and evaluated the unitary administrative fees paid by each Fund under the Administration Agreement, including in light of the total expenses of the Funds and the total expenses of competitor funds as reflected in the Broadridge materials. The Independent Trustees noted that, in connection with the contract review process in prior years, they had negotiated with the Investment Adviser to observe administrative fee breakpoints for each Fund and share class under the Administration Agreement, and to apply breakpoints based on the entire net assets of each Fund (rather than on net assets attributable to particular share classes).

The Trustees also considered, among other information, the Investment Adviser’s business model of providing advisory and administrative services as part of a comprehensive program wherein the services cannot readily be separated and the Investment Adviser’s indication that it would not be willing to outsource its provision of administrative services while continuing to provide advisory services. They also took into account disclosure in the Funds’ prospectuses regarding administrative fees. In considering each Fund’s advisory fee, the Independent Trustees also reviewed information regarding each Fund’s “active share” in relation to its benchmark index and discussed with the Investment Adviser the reasons some Funds have lower active share than others.

Economies of Scale and “Fall-Out” Benefits

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Trustees took into account that, as open-end investment companies, the Funds intend to raise additional assets, so that, as the assets of the Funds grow over time, certain economies of scale and other efficiencies may be realized through spreading certain fixed costs across a larger asset base or across a variety of products and services, while also taking into account the breakpoints and fee waiver arrangements observed by the Investment Adviser for applicable Funds. The Independent Trustees considered it appropriate to consider breakpoints in the Funds’ administrative fee as a means of sharing any economies of scale or efficiencies concerning administration services with Fund shareholders. The Independent Trustees also took into account that the Investment Adviser agreed to advisory and/or administrative fee waivers and/or breakpoints for certain Funds.

Additionally, the Independent Trustees considered so-called “fall-out benefits” to the Investment Adviser and its affiliates, such as reputational value derived from serving as Investment Adviser to the Funds. They also considered that the unitary administrative fee generally results in increased profitability benefits as the asset base of the Funds increases and such benefits generally inure to the Investment Adviser, and that the Investment Adviser’s profitability likewise generally declines under the unitary administrative fee structure when Fund assets decline. The Independent Trustees considered that the unitary administrative fee also insulates shareholders from increased expense ratios arising from declines in net assets.

Profitability

The Independent Trustees considered the overall estimated profitability to the Investment Adviser with respect to combined advisory and administrative fees, as well as profitability separately as to each of the advisory fees and administrative fees, each on a Fund-by-Fund basis for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018. They also reviewed the Investment Adviser’s aggregate profitability with respect to the Fund complex and the Investment Adviser’s overall profitability with respect to all products globally. As part of its considerations, the Board considered the cost allocation methodology that the Investment Adviser used in developing its estimated profitability figures. In this connection, the Independent Trustees considered that for certain Funds profitability had increased as a result of expense reduction efforts, although the Funds’ assets had declined over the last year. The Independent Trustees recognized that it is difficult to make comparisons of profitability from mutual fund advisory and administration contracts because comparative information is not generally available and is affected by numerous factors, including the structure of the particular adviser, the types of funds it manages, its business mix, numerous assumptions about allocations and the adviser’s capital structure and cost of capital. The Independent Trustees concluded that the Investment Adviser’s estimated pre-tax profitability for advisory services was not excessive or unreasonable, although it was sizeable for certain Funds, and that

estimated pre-tax profitability for advisory and administrative services combined, including when calculated on a net revenue basis regarding the administrative fee, was sizeable for certain Funds, but generally not unreasonable under the circumstances. The Independent Trustees recognized that the Investment Adviser and its affiliates should be entitled to earn a reasonable level of profits for services they provide to each Fund and, based on their review, determined that the estimated profitability to the Investment Adviser with respect to its relationship with each Fund did not, in any case, appear to be excessive.

Fund-by-Fund Analysis

With regard to the investment performance of each Fund and the fees charged to each Fund, the Independent Trustees considered the following information. The comparative performance, fee, and expense information was prepared and provided by Broadridge and was not independently verified by the Independent Trustees.

With respect to all Funds, the Independent Trustees reviewed, among other information, comparative information showing performance for Class A and Institutional Class shares of the Funds against their respective Broadridge Performance Universes for the one-year, three-year, five-year and ten-year periods (to the extent each such Fund had been in existence), each ended March 31, 2019. Institutional Class performance relative to the median for each Fund’s Broadridge Performance Universe is described below, and for those Funds with performance that ranked below median for their respective Broadridge Performance Universes, the specific quintile rankings for Institutional Class shares are also noted below with respect to the relevant periods of underperformance. With respect to performance quintile rankings for a Fund compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the first quintile represents the highest (best) performance and the fifth quintile represents the lowest performance.

The Independent Trustees reviewed, among other information, information provided by Broadridge comparing each Fund’s advisory fee, and ratios of total expenses to net assets (“Total Expense Ratios”) for two share classes (Class A and Institutional Class) to the Funds’ respective Broadridge Expense Groups for the most recently reported fiscal year. Class A shares of the applicable Broadridge-selected group of comparable funds are referred to below as the “retail expense group,” and Institutional Class are referred to as the “institutional expense group.” The Independent Trustees noted that the Broadridge data takes into account any fee reductions or expense limitations that were in effect during a Fund’s last fiscal year. For those Funds whose fees or expenses were higher than the Broadridge Expense Group median, the specific quintile rankings are also noted below with respect to the relevant above-median fee or expense categories (unless quintile rankings were not provided to the Independent Trustees by Broadridge, in which case fund rankings are provided). For the purposes of Broadridge Expense Group quintile rankings, higher fees and expenses result in a lower quintile ranking, with the first quintile corresponding to low fees and expenses the fifth quintile corresponding to high fees and expenses.

 

 

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    AllianzGI Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one- and three-year periods (in the fourth and third quintiles, respectively) and above median for the five- and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

    AllianzGI Focused Growth Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-, three-, and five-year periods (in the fifth, fourth and third quintiles, respectively) and above median for the ten-year period. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

    AllianzGI Global Natural Resources Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the three-year period (in the fourth quintile) and above median for the one-, five-, and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below median for the retail and institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (in the fourth and third quintiles, respectively) (on a net basis in each case).

 

    AllianzGI Global Small-Cap Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-, three-, and five-year periods (in the fourth quintile for the one- and three-year periods and in the third quintile for the five-year period) and above median for ten-year period. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were at median for the retail expense group and below median for the institutional expense group, and total expense ratios were above the median for the retail expense group (ranked 4/5) and at median for the institutional expense group (on a net basis in each case).

 

    AllianzGI Health Sciences Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the three-year period (in the fourth quintile) and above the median for the one-year period. The Fund’s Institutional Class shares have less than five years of history; its Class A shares’ performance was below median for the three- and ten-year periods (each in the fourth quintile) and above the median for the one- and five-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below the median for the retail and institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (each in the fourth quintile) (on a net basis in each case).

 

    AllianzGI Income & Growth Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was above median for the one-, three-, five-, and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below median for both the retail and the institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (each in the fifth quintile) (on a net basis in each case).
    AllianzGI Mid-Cap Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one- and three- year periods (in the fourth and third quintiles, respectively) and above median for the five- and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

    AllianzGI NFJ Dividend Value Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-, three-, five-, and ten-year periods (in the fifth quintile for the one-year period and in the fourth quintile for the three-, five-, and ten-year periods). As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

    AllianzGI NFJ International Value Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the three-, five-, and ten-year periods (in the fourth quintile for the three- and ten-year periods and in the fifth quintile for the five-year period), and was above median for the one-year period. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below median for both the retail and institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (in the fourth and third quintiles, respectively) (on a net basis in each case).

 

    AllianzGI NFJ Large-Cap Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-year period (in the fourth quintile) and above median for the three-, five-, and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below median for both the retail and institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (each in the fourth quintile) (on a net basis in each case).

 

    AllianzGI NFJ Mid-Cap Value Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-year period (in the fifth quintile) and above median for the three-, five-, and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

    AllianzGI NFJ Small-Cap Value Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was below median for the one-, three-, five-, and ten-year periods (in the fifth quintile for the one- and ten-year periods and in the fourth quintile for the three- and five-year periods). As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were below median for both the retail and institutional expense groups, and total expense ratios were at median for the retail expense group and below median for the institutional expense group (on a net basis in each case).

 

   

AllianzGI Small-Cap Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was above median

 

 

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for the one-, three-, and five-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees and total expense ratios were each below the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (on a net basis).

 

   

AllianzGI Technology Fund: As compared to its Broadridge Performance Universe, the Fund’s performance was above median for the one-, three-, five, and ten-year periods. As compared to its Broadridge Expense Group, the Fund’s advisory fees were above the median for both the retail (ranked 9/14) and institutional (ranked 8/13) expense groups, and total expense ratios were above the median for both the retail and institutional expense groups (each in the fifth quintile) (on a net basis in each case).

Conclusions

After reviewing these and other factors described herein, the Independent Trustees concluded, with respect to each Fund, within the context of their overall conclusions regarding the Agreement and in their business judgment, that they were satisfied with the Investment Adviser’s responses and on-going efforts relating to the investment performance of the Funds, including efforts to improve performance for underperforming Funds. The Independent Trustees also concluded that the fees payable under the Agreement represent reasonable compensation in light of the nature, extent and quality of services provided by the Investment Adviser and should be continued, taking into account the Investment Adviser’s agreement to observe waivers and/or breakpoints for certain Funds. Based on their evaluation of factors that they deemed to be material, including, but not limited to, those factors described above, the Independent Trustees unanimously concluded that the continuation of the Agreement with respect to the Funds was in the interests of the applicable Funds and their shareholders, and determined to recommend that the continuance of the Agreement be approved by the full Board.

 

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Privacy Policy

 

Please read this Policy carefully. It gives you important information about how Allianz Global Investors U.S. and its U.S. affiliates (“AllianzGI US,” “we” or “us”) handle non-public personal information (“Personal Information”) that we may receive about you. It applies to all of the past, present and future clients and shareholders of AllianzGI US and the funds and accounts it manages, advises, administers or distributes, and will continue to apply when you are no longer a client or shareholder. As used throughout this Policy, “AllianzGI US” means Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, and the family of registered and unregistered funds managed by one or more of these firms. AllianzGI US is part of a global investment management group, and the privacy policies of other Allianz Global Investors entities outside of the United States may have provisions in their policies that differ from this Privacy Policy. Please refer to the website of the specific non-US Allianz Global Investors entity for its policy on privacy.

We Care about Your Privacy

We consider your privacy to be a fundamental aspect of our relationship with you, and we strive to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and security of your Personal Information. To ensure your privacy, we have developed policies that are designed to protect your Personal Information while allowing your needs to be served.

Information We May Collect

In the course of providing you with products and services, we may obtain Personal Information about you, which may come from sources such as account application and other forms, from other written, electronic, or verbal communications, from account transactions, from a brokerage or financial advisory firm, financial advisor or consultant, and/or from information you provide on our website.

You are not required to supply any of the Personal Information that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in us being unable to open and maintain your account, or to provide services to you.

How Your Information Is Shared

We do not disclose your Personal Information to anyone for marketing purposes. We disclose your Personal Information only to those service providers, affiliated and non-affiliated, who need the information for everyday business purposes, such as to respond to your inquiries, to perform services, and/or to service and maintain your account. This applies to all of the categories of Personal Information we collect about you. The affiliated and non-affiliated service providers who receive your Personal Information also may use it to process your transactions, provide you with materials (including preparing and mailing prospectuses and shareholder reports and gathering shareholder proxies), and provide you with account statements and other materials relating to your account. These service providers provide services at our direction, and under their agreements with us, are required to keep your Personal Information confidential and to use it only for providing the contractually required services. Our service providers may not use your Personal Information to market products and services to you except in conformance with applicable laws and regulations. We also may provide your Personal Information to your respective brokerage or financial advisory firm, custodian, and/or to your financial advisor or consultant.

In addition, we reserve the right to disclose or report Personal Information to non-affiliated third parties, in limited circumstances, where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under law, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities or pursuant to other legal process, or to protect our rights or property, including to enforce our Privacy Policy or other agreements with you. Personal Information collected by us may also be transferred as part of a corporate sale, restructuring, bankruptcy, or other transfer of assets.

Security of Your Information

We maintain your Personal Information for as long as necessary for legitimate business purposes or otherwise as required by law. In maintaining this information, we have implemented appropriate procedures that are designed to restrict access to your Personal Information only to those who need to know that information in order to provide products and/or services to you. In addition, we have implemented physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to help protect your Personal Information.

Privacy and the Internet

The Personal Information that you provide through our website, as applicable, is handled in the same way as the Personal Information that you provide by any other means, as described above. This section of the Policy gives you additional information about the way in which Personal Information that is obtained online is handled.

 

   

Online Enrollment, Account Access and Transactions: When you visit our website, you can visit pages that are open to the general public, or, where available, log into protected pages to enroll online, access information about your account, or conduct certain transactions. Access to these

 

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secure pages is permitted only after you have created a User ID and Password. The User ID and Password must be supplied each time you want to access your account information online. This information serves to verify your identity. When you enter Personal Information into our website to enroll or access your account online, you will log into secure pages. By using our website, you consent to this Privacy Policy and to the use of your Personal Information in accordance with the practices described in this Policy. If you provide Personal Information to effect transactions, a record of the transactions you have performed while on the site is retained by us. For additional terms and conditions governing your use of our website, please refer to the Investor Mutual Fund Access – Disclaimer which is incorporated herein by reference and is available on our website.

 

   

Cookies and Similar Technologies: Cookies are small text files stored in your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain web pages. Clear GIFs (also known as Web Beacons) are typically transparent very small graphic images (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that are placed on a website that may be included on our services provided via our website and typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior. We may use cookies and automatically collected information to: (i) personalize our website and the services provided via our website, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your use of, or the next time you use, our website and the services provided via our website; (ii) provide customized advertisements, content, and information; (iii) monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our website and the services provided via our website and third-party marketing activities; (iv) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (v) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities offered through our website and the services provided via our website. Tracking technology also helps us manage and improve the usability of our website, (i) detecting whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past and (ii) to identify the most popular sections of our website. Because an industry-standard Do-Not-Track protocol is not yet established, our website will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy and will not be affected by any Do-Not-Track signals from any browser.

 

   

Use of Social Media Plugins Our website uses the following Social Media Plugins (“Plugins”):

 

   

Facebook Share Button operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

 

   

Tweet Button operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

 

   

LinkedIn Share Button operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

All Plugins are marked with the brand of the respective operators Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (“Operators”). When you visit our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the Operator. The Operator directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into our website, enabling the Operator to receive information about you having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus, AllianzGI US has no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and we inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide the Operator with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you do not wish to have such data transferred to the Operators, you need to log out of your respective account before visiting our website. Please see the Operators’ data privacy statements in order to get further information about purpose and scope of the data collection and the processing and use:

 

   

Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy

 

   

Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy

 

   

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time-to-time to reflect changes in related practices and procedures, or applicable laws and regulations. If we make changes, we will notify you on our website and the revised Policy will become effective immediately upon posting to our website. We also will provide account owners with a copy of our Privacy Policy, annually if required. We encourage you to visit our website periodically to remain up to date on our Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that by using our website after we have posted changes to this Privacy Policy, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy as modified.

Obtaining Additional Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy related practices in the United States, you may contact us via our dedicated email at PrivacyUS@allianzgi.com.

 

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Allianz Funds—Board of Trustees

 

The chart below identifies the Trustees and Officers of the Trust. The “interested” Trustees defined by the 1940 Act, are indicated below. Unless otherwise indicated, the correspondence address of all persons below is: 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019. The Funds’ Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the Trustees. The Statement of Additional Information is available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-988-8380 (retail classes: A, C and R) or 1-800-498-5413 (Class P, Class R6, Institutional and Administrative classes).

 

Name, Year of Birth and

Position Held

with Trust

  

Term of

Office and

Length of

Time Served

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years   

Number of

Funds in

Fund Complex

Overseen by

Trustee

   Other Directorships Held by Trustee
Interested Trustees         

Erick R. Holt†

1952

   12/2017 to present    Board Member, Global Chief Risk Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer (2006 – 2018) of Allianz Asset Management GmbH.    63    None

Thomas J. Fuccillo†

1968

   3/2019 to present    Managing Director and Head of US Funds of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC; Trustee, President and Chief Executive Officer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex; and President and Chief Executive Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc. and The Taiwan Fund, Inc. Formerly, Associate General Counsel, Head of US Funds and Retail Legal (2004 – 2019); Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC (2013 – 2019); Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of numerous funds in the Fund Complex; and Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc.    63    None
Independent Trustees            

Alan Rappaport

1953

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

   12/2014 to present   

Advisory Director (formerly, Vice Chairman), Roundtable Investment Partners (since 2009); Adjunct Professor, New York University Stern School of Business (since 2011); Lecturer, Stanford University

Graduate School of Business (since 2013); and Director, Victory Capital Holdings, Inc., an asset management firm (since 2013). Formerly, Trustee, American Museum of Natural History (2005-2015);

Trustee and Member of Board of Overseers, NYU Langone Medical Center (2007-2015).

   63    None.

Davey S. Scoon

1946

   1/2006 to present    Adjunct Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison (since 2011).    63    Director, Albireo Pharma, Inc. (since 2016); and Director, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (since 2006). Formerly, Director, Biodel Inc. (2013-2016); Director, Orthofix International N.V. (2011-2015); and Chairman, Tufts Health Plan (1997-2014).

Deborah A DeCotis

1952

   6/2014 to present    Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (since 1996); Member, Circle Financial Group (since 2009); Member, Council on Foreign Relations (since 2013); Trustee, Smith College (since 2017); and Director, Watford Re (Since 2017). Formerly, Co-Chair Special Projects Committee, Memorial Sloan Kettering (2005-2015); Trustee, Stanford University (2010-2015); and Principal, LaLoop LLC, a retail accessories company (1999-2014).    91*    None.

F. Ford Drummond

1962

   1/2006 to present    Owner/Operator, Drummond Ranch; and Director, Oklahoma Water Resources Board. Formerly, Director, The Cleveland Bank; and General Counsel, BMI-Health Plans (benefits administration).    63    Director, Bancfirst Corporation

 

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Allianz Funds—Board of Trustees (cont’d)

 

Name, Year of Birth and

Position Held

with Trust

  

Term of

Office and

Length of

Time Served

   Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years   

Number of

Funds in

Fund Complex

Overseen by

Trustee

   Other Directorships Held by Trustee

Bradford K. Gallagher

1944

   12/2014 to present    Retired. Founder, Spyglass Investments LLC, a private investment vehicle (since 2001). Formerly, Chairman and Trustee, The Common Fund (2005-2014); Partner, New Technology Ventures Capital Management LLC, a venture capital fund (2011-2013)    91*    None.

James A. Jacobson

1945

   12/2014 to present    Retired. Trustee (since 2002) and Chairman of Investment Committee (since 2007), Ronald McDonald House of New York; and Trustee, New Jersey City University (since 2014).    91*    Formerly, Trustee Alpine Mutual Funds Complex (consisting of 18 funds) (2009-2016).

Hans W. Kertess

1939

   12/2014 to present    President, H. Kertess & Co., a financial advisory company; and Senior Adviser (formerly Managing Director), Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets (since 2004).    91*    None.

James S. MacLeod

1947

   12/2014 to present    Executive Chairman of the Board, CoastalSouth Bancshares, Inc.; Chairman, CoastalStates Bank; Vice Chairman of the Board and Member of Executive Committee, University of Tampa; Trustee, MUSC Foundation and Director, Mortgage Bankers Association of America. Formerly, Executive Vice President, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation; and Chief Executive Officer, Homeowners Mortgage.    63    Non-Executive Chairman & Director, Sykes Enterprises, Inc.

William B. Ogden, IV

1945

   12/2014 to present    Retired. Formerly, Asset Management Industry Consultant; and Managing Director, Investment Banking Division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc.    91*    None.

 

*

Inclusive of 28 funds managed by Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC (“PIMCO”).

Each of Mr. Holt and Mr. Fuccillo is an Interested Personof the Trust, as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act, due to her or his affiliation with the Manager and its affiliates.

 

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Allianz Funds—Officers

 

Name, Address and Year of
Birth and Position Held
with Trust
   Term of
Office* and
Length of
Time Served
   Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

Thomas J. Fuccillo

1968

President and Chief Executive Officer

   4/2016 to present    Managing Director, and Head of US Funds of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC; Trustee, President and Chief Executive Officer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex and President and Chief Executive Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc. Formerly, Associate General Counsel, Head of US Funds and Retail Legal; Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC; Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of numerous funds in the Fund Complex (2004-2016); and Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc. and The Taiwan Fund, Inc.

Scott Whisten

1971

Treasurer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer

   4/2018 to present    Director of Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; and Treasurer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex. Formerly, Assistant Treasurer of numerous funds in the Fund Complex (2007-2018).

Angela Borreggine

1964

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

   4/2016 to present    Director and Senior Counsel of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex ; and Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc. Formerly, Assistant Secretary of numerous funds in the Fund Complex (2015-2016).

Thomas L. Harter, CFA

1975

Chief Compliance Officer

600 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101

   4/2013 to present    Director of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; Director, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer of Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; and Chief Compliance Officer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex and of The Korea Fund, Inc.

Richard J. Cochran

1961

Assistant Treasurer

   5/2008 to present    Vice President of Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC and Assistant Treasurer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex and of The Korea Fund, Inc.

Orhan Dzemaili

1974

Assistant Treasurer

   1/2011 to present    Director of Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; Treasurer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of The Korea Fund, Inc.; and Assistant Treasurer of 63 funds in the Fund Complex. Formerly, Assistant Treasurer of The Korea Fund, Inc. (2016-2018).

Debra Rubano

1975

Assistant Secretary

   12/2015 to present    Director and Senior Counsel of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; and Assistant Secretary of 63 funds in the Fund Complex.

Craig Ruckman

1977

Assistant Secretary

   12/2017 to present    Director and Senior Counsel of Allianz Global Investors U.S. Holdings LLC; Chief Legal Officer of Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC; and Assistant Secretary of 63 funds in the Fund Complex. Formerly, Associate of K/L Gates LLP (2012-2016).

 

*

The officers of the Trust are elected annually by the Board of Trustees.

 

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Allianz Funds

 

Trustees

Alan Rappaport

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Sarah E. Cogan

Deborah A. DeCotis

F. Ford Drummond

Thomas J. Fuccillo

Bradford K. Gallagher

Erick R. Holt

James A. Jacobson

Hans W. Kertess

James S. MacLeod

William B. Ogden, IV

Davey S. Scoon

Officers

Thomas J. Fuccillo

President and Chief Executive Officer

Scott Whisten

Treasurer, Principal Financial & Accounting Officer

Angela Borreggine

Chief Legal Officer & Secretary

Thomas L. Harter

Chief Compliance Officer

Richard J. Cochran

Assistant Treasurer

Orhan Dzemaili

Assistant Treasurer

Debra Rubano

Assistant Secretary

Craig A. Ruckman

Assistant Secretary

Investment Adviser

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC

1633 Broadway

New York, NY 10019

Distributor

Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC

1633 Broadway

New York, NY 10019

Custodian & Accounting Agent

State Street Bank and Trust Co.

801 Pennsylvania Avenue

Kansas City, MO 64105

Shareholder Servicing and Transfer Agents

State Street Bank and Trust Company, which has delegated its obligations

as transfer agent to: DST Asset Manager Soloutions, Inc.

P.O. Box 219723

Kansas City, MO 64121-9723

(Class P, Institutional Class, Class R6 and Administrative Class shares)

P.O. Box 219968

Kansas City, MO 64121-9968

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

300 Madison Ave

New York, NY 10017

Legal Counsel

Ropes & Gray LLP

Prudential Tower

800 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02199

 

 

This report, including the financial information herein, is transmitted to the shareholders of the Trust for their information. It is not a prospectus, circular or representation intended for use in the purchase of shares of each Fund or any securities mentioned in this report.

For Account Information

Contact your financial adviser, or if you receive account statements directly from Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, you can also call (800) 988-8380 for Class A, C and R shares or (800) 498-5413 for Class P, Institutional, R6 and Administrative shares. Telephone representatives are available Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time. Or visit our website, us.allianzgi.com.


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About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager with over 730 investment professionals in 24 offices worldwide and managing $601 billion in assets for individuals, families and institutions.*

Active is the most important word in our vocabulary. Active is how we create and share value with clients. We believe in solving, not selling, and in adding value beyond pure economic gain. We invest for the long term, employing our innovative investment expertise and global resources. Our goal is to ensure a superior experience for our clients, wherever they are based and whatever their investment needs.

Active is: Allianz Global Investors

* Data as of March 31, 2019.

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the above mentioned Funds carefully before investing. This and other information is contained in the Funds’ prospectus, which may be obtained by contacting your financial advisor, by visiting us.allianzgi.com or by calling 1-800-988-8380 (retail classes: A, C and R) or 1-800-498-5413 (Class P, Class R6, Institutional and Administrative classes). Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest or send money.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC serves as the investment manager for the Allianz Funds and the Allianz Multi-Strategy Funds. Allianz Funds and the Allianz Multi-Strategy Funds are distributed by Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC. © 2019. For information about any product, contact your financial advisor.

 

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ITEM 2.

CODE OF ETHICS.

 

(a)

As of the end of the period covered by this report, the registrant has adopted a code of ethics (the “Section 406 Standards for Investment Companies — Ethical Standards for Principal Executive and Financial Officers”) that applies to the registrant’s President and Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer; the registrant’s Principal Financial Officer also serves as the Principal Accounting Officer. The registrant undertakes to provide a copy of such code of ethics to any person upon request, without charge, by calling 1-800-926-4456. The code of ethics are included as an Exhibit 99.CODE ETH hereto.

 

(b)

During the period covered by this report, there were not any amendments to a provision of the code of ethics adopted in 2(a) above.

 

(c)

During the period covered by this report, there were not any waivers or implicit waivers to a provision of the code of ethics adopted in 2(a) above.

 

ITEM 3.

AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT.

The Board of Trustees has determined that James A. Jacobson and Davey S. Scoon, both of whom serve on the Trust’s Audit Oversight Committee, qualify as “audit committee financial experts” and are “independent” for purposes of this Item.

 

ITEM 4.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.

 

a)

Audit fees. The aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years (the “Reporting Periods”) for professional services rendered by the Registrant’s principal accountant (the “Auditor”) for the audit of the Registrant’s annual financial statements, or services that are normally provided by the Auditor in connection with the statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for the Reporting Periods, were $631,552 in 2018 and $565,959 in 2019.

 

b)

Audit-Related Fees. The aggregate fees billed in the Reporting Periods for assurance and related services by the principal accountants that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit registrant’s financial statements and are not reported under paragraph (e) of this Item were $0 in 2018 and $0 in 2019.

 

c)

Tax Fees. The aggregate fees billed in the Reporting Periods for professional services rendered by the Auditor for tax compliance, tax service and tax planning (“Tax Services”) were $208,185 in 2018 and $202,830 in 2019. These services include review or preparation of U.S. federal, state, local, certain foreign tax returns, excise tax returns and the calculation of excise tax distributions.

 

d)

All Other Fees. The aggregate fees billed in the Reporting Periods for professional services, if any, billed for other products and services rendered by the principal account to the Trust were $0 in 2018 and $0 in 2019.

 

e)

1. Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures. The Registrant’s Audit Oversight Committee has established policies and procedures for pre-approval of all audit and permissible non-audit services by the Auditor for the Registrant, as well as the Auditor’s engagements related directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Registrant. The Registrant’s policy is stated below.


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ALLIANZ FUNDS (The “Trust”)

AUDIT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE POLICY

FOR

PRE-APPROVAL OF SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS

The Trust’s Audit Oversight Committee (“Committee”) is charged with the oversight of the Trust’s financial reporting policies and practices and their internal controls. As part of this responsibility, the Committee must pre-approve any independent accounting firm’s engagement to render audit and/or permissible non-audit services to the Trust as well as to the Trust’s investment adviser(1) or any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the Trust (“Applicable Service Providers”), if the engagement relates directly to operations and financial reporting of the Trust. In evaluating a proposed engagement by the independent accountants, the Committee will assess the effect that the engagement might reasonably be expected to have on the accountant’s independence. The Committee’s evaluation will be based on:

a review of the nature of the professional services expected to be provided, the fees to be charged in connection with the services expected to be provided a review of the safeguards put into place by the accounting firm to safeguard independence, and periodic meetings with the accounting firm.

POLICY FOR PRE-APPROVAL OF AUDIT AND NON-AUDIT SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED TO THE TRUST

On an annual basis, the Committee of the Trust will review and if the Committee so determines, pre-approve the scope of the audits of the Trust and proposed audit fees, and permitted non-audit (including audit under related) services that are proposed to be performed by the Trust’s independent accountants for the Trust and its Applicable Service Providers (to the extent the services to be provided to the Applicable Service Providers relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Trust). The Committee may also pre-approve services at any other in-person or telephonic Committee meeting. At least annually, the Committee will receive a report of all audit and non-audit services that were rendered in the previous calendar year by the independent accountants for the Trust and its Applicable Service Providers pursuant to this Policy.

In addition to the Committee’s pre-approval of services pursuant to this Policy, the engagement of the independent accounting firm for any permitted non-audit service provided to the Trust with also require the separate written pre-approval of the President, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the Trust, who may only grant such approval if he or she believes that the accounting firm’s engagement will not adversely affect the firm’s independence. All non-audit services performed by the independent accounting firm will be disclosed, as required, in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

AUDIT SERVICES

The categories of audit services and related fees to be reviewed and pre-approved annually by the Committee are:

Annual Trust financial statement audits

Seed audits (related to new product filings, as required)

SEC and regulatory filings and consents

Semiannual financial statement reviews

(1) For purposes of this requirement, the term “adviser” does not include sub-advisers that are not affiliated with a Trust’s investment adviser, are overseen by that investment adviser, and whose role is primarily portfolio management.


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AUDIT-RELATED SERVICES

The following categories of audit-related services are considered to be consistent with the role of the Trust’s independent accountants and services falling under one of these categories will be pre-approved by the Committee on an annual basis if the Committee deems those services to be consistent with the accounting firm’s independence:

Accounting consultations

Fund merger support services

Agreed upon procedure reports

Other Attestation reports

Comfort letters

Other internal control reports

Individual audit-related services that fall within one of these categories and are not presented to the Committee as part of the annual pre-approval process described above, may be pre-approved, if deemed consistent with the accounting firm’s independence, by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member who is a disinterested trustee under the Investment Company to whom this responsibility has been delegated) so long as the estimated fee for those services does not exceed $500,000. Any pre-approval by a Committee member shall be reported to the full Committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

TAX SERVICES

The following categories of tax services are considered to be consistent with the role of the Trust’s independent accountants and services falling under one of these categories will be pre-approved by the Committee on an annual basis if the Committee deems those services to be consistent with the accounting firm’s independence:

Tax compliance services related to the filing or amendment of the following:

Federal, state and local income tax compliance; and, sales and use tax compliance

Timely RIC qualification reviews

Tax distribution analysis and planning

Tax authority examination services

Tax appeals support services

Accounting methods studies

Fund merger support services

Other tax consulting services and related projects

Individual tax services that fall within one of these categories and are not presented to the Committee as part of the annual pre-approval process described above, may be pre-approved, if deemed consistent with the accounting firm’s independence, by the Committee at any regular or special meeting. Such services may also be pre-approved by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member who is a disinterested trustee under the Investment Company Act to whom this responsibility has been delegated) so long as the estimated fee for the particular service for which pre-approval is sought does not exceed $500,000. Any pre-approval by a Committee Member shall be reported to the full Committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.


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OTHER SERVICES

Services that are proposed to be provided to the Trust which are not audit, audit-related or tax services may be pre-approved, if deemed consistent with the accounting firm’s independence, by the Committee at any regular or special meeting. Such services may also be pre-approved by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member who is a disinterested trustee under the Investment Company Act to whom this responsibility has been delegated) so long as the estimated fee for the particular service for which pre-approval is sought does not exceed the limit assigned within the Policy. Any pre-approval by a Committee member shall be reported to the full Committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

PROHIBITED SERVICES

The Trust’s independent accountants will not render services in the following categories of non-audit services:

Bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the Trust

Financial information systems design and implementation

Appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution-in-kind reports

Actuarial services

Internal audit outsourcing services

Management functions or human resources

Broker or dealer, investment adviser or investment banking services

Legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit

Any other service that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board determines, by regulation, is impermissible.

PRE-APPROVAL OF NON-AUDIT SERVICES PROVIDED TO OTHER ENTITIES WITHIN THE FUND COMPLEX

Rule 2-01(c)(7) of Regulation S-X provides that an accountant is not independent of the Trust unless the Trust’s Committee approves any permitted non-audit services to be provided to the Trust’s Applicable Service Providers, provided, in each case, that the engagement relates directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Trust.

Services to be provided to Applicable Service Providers that are required to be pre-approved, may be pre-approved, if deemed consistent with the accounting firm’s independence, by the Committee at a regular or special meeting or by the Committee Chair (or any other Committee member who is a disinterested trustee under the Investment Company Act to whom this responsibility has been delegated) so long as the estimated fee for those services does not exceed $500,000. If a service is approved by a Committee member, the full Committee is notified of such pre-approval at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

Although the Committee will not be required to pre-approve all services provided to Applicable Service Providers and their affiliates, the Committee will receive an annual report from the Trust’s independent accounting firm showing the aggregate fees for all services provided to Applicable Service Providers and their affiliates.


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DE MINIMUS EXCEPTION TO REQUIREMENT OF PRE-APPROVAL OF NON-AUDIT SERVICES

With respect to the provision of permitted non-audit services to the Trust or Accounting Affiliates, the pre-approval requirement is waived if:

 

(1)

The aggregate fees and costs of all non-audit services that, but for the limited exception provided by this section, would require pre-approval by the Committee constitutes no more than five percent of the total fees and costs paid by the Trust and Applicable Service Providers to the independent accountant during the fiscal year during which such non-audit services are provided;

 

(2)

At the time of the engagement for such services, the Trust did not recognize that the services were “non-audit services” that required preapproval; and

 

(3)

Each such service is brought promptly to the attention of the Committee and approved prior to the completion of the audit by the Committee, Committee Chair or any other Committee member who is a disinterested trustee under the Investment Company Act to whom this responsibility has been delegated.

 

  e)

2. No services were approved pursuant to the procedures contained in paragraph (C) (7) (i) (C) of Rule 2-01 of Registration S-X.

 

  f)

Not applicable.

 

  g)

Non-audit fees. The aggregate non-audit fees billed by the Auditor for services rendered to the Registrant, and rendered to the Adviser, for the 2018 Reporting Period was $3,462,050 and the 2019 Reporting Period was $1,479,044.

 

  h)

Auditor Independence. The Registrant’s Audit Oversight Committee has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the Adviser which were not pre-approved is compatible with maintaining the Auditor’s independence.

 

ITEM 5.

AUDIT COMMITTEE OF LISTED REGISTRANTS.

 

(a)

Disclosure not required for open-end management investment companies.

 

(b)

Not applicable.

 

ITEM 6.

INVESTMENTS.

 

(a)

Schedule of Investments is included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1 of this form.

 

(b)

Not applicable.


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ITEM 7.

DISCLOSURE OF PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Disclosure not required for open-end management investment companies.

 

ITEM 8.

PORTFOLIO MANAGERS OF CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Disclosure not required for open-end management investment companies.

 

ITEM 9.

PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS.

Disclosure not required for open-end management investment companies.

 

ITEM 10.

SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.

There have been no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the Trust’s Board of Trustees since the Trust’s last provided disclosure in response to this item.

 

ITEM 11.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

(a)

The registrant’s President and Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer, Principal Financial & Accounting Officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c))), are effective based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this document.

 

(b)

There were no changes in internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))) that occurred during the most recent semi-annual period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

ITEM 12.

DISCLOSURE OF SECURITIES LENDING ACTIVITIES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Disclosure not required for open-end management investment companies.

 

ITEM 13.

EXHIBITS.

(a)(1) Exhibit 99.CODE ETH – Code of Ethics

(a)(2) Exhibit 99.302CERT – Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

(a)(3) Not applicable

(a)(4) Not applicable

(b) Exhibit 99.906CERT – Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


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Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Allianz Funds
By:  

/s/ Thomas J. Fuccillo

 

Thomas J. Fuccillo

President & Chief Executive Officer

Date: August 27, 2019
By:  

/s/ Scott Whisten

  Scott Whisten
 

Treasurer, Principal Financial &

Accounting Officer

Date: August 27, 2019

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By:  

/s/ Thomas J. Fuccillo

 

Thomas J. Fuccillo

President & Chief Executive Officer

Date: August 27, 2019
By:  

/s/ Scott Whisten

  Scott Whisten
 

Treasurer, Principal Financial &

Accounting Officer

Date: August 27, 2019