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PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments (First Prospectus Summary) | PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments
PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments
Investment objective
Capital appreciation.
Fees and expenses of the fund
These tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold

shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on purchases of

Class A shares if you or your family invest, or agree to invest in the future,

at least $50,000 in the UBS family of funds. More information about these and

other discounts and waivers, as well as eligibility requirements for each share

class, is available from your financial advisor and in "Managing your fund

account" on page 103 of the prospectus and in "Reduced sales charges, additional

purchase, exchange and redemption information and other services" on page 214 of

the fund's Statement of Additional Information.
Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments (USD $)
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class Y
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a % of the offering price) 5.50% none none none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a % of the lesser of the offering price or the redemption price) none 5.00% 1.00% none
Redemption fee (as a % of the amount redeemed within 90 days of purchase, if applicable) 1.00% 1.00% 1.00% 1.00%
Exchange fee none none none none
Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class Y
Management fees 0.70% 0.70% 0.70% 0.70%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees 0.25% 1.00% 1.00% none
Other expenses (includes administration fee of 0.10%) 0.34% 0.59% 0.35% 0.38%
Total annual fund operating expenses 1.29% 2.29% 2.05% 1.08%
Management fee waiver/expense reimbursements [1]    0.13%      
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursements [1] 1.29% 2.16% 2.05% 1.08%
[1] The fund and UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. ("UBS Global AM") have entered into a written fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement pursuant to which UBS Global AM is contractually obligated to waive its management fees and/or reimburse expenses so that the fund's ordinary total operating expenses of each class through November 28, 2012 (excluding dividend expense, borrowing costs, and interest expense relating to short sales, and expenses attributable to investment in other investment companies, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses) would not exceed 1.41% for Class A, 2.16% for Class B, 2.16% for Class C and 1.16% for Class Y. The fund has agreed to repay UBS Global AM for any waived fees/reimbursed expenses to the extent that it can do so over the following three fiscal years without causing the fund's expenses in any of those three years to exceed these expense caps. The fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement may be terminated by the fund's board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the fund's advisory contract with UBS Global AM. Upon termination of the agreement, however, UBS Global AM's three year recoupment rights will survive.
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund

with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you

invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of

your shares at the end of those periods unless otherwise stated. The example

also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's

operating expenses remain the same.



Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions

your costs would be:
[1]
Expense Example PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments (USD $)
Expense Example, With Redemption, 1 Year
Expense Example, With Redemption, 3 Years
Expense Example, With Redemption, 5 Years
Expense Example, With Redemption, 10 Years
Class A
674 936 1,219 2,021
Class B
719 1,003 1,413 2,132 [1]
Class C
308 643 1,103 2,379
Class Y
110 343 595 1,317
[1] Reflects conversion to Class A shares after a maximum of 6 years.
Expense Example, No Redemption PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments (USD $)
Expense Example, No Redemption, 1 Year
Expense Example, No Redemption, 3 Years
Expense Example, No Redemption, 5 Years
Expense Example, No Redemption, 10 Years
Class B
219 703 1,213 2,132 [1]
Class C
208 643 1,103 2,379
[1] Reflects conversion to Class A shares after a maximum of 6 years.
Portfolio turnover
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells

securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may

indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund

shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in

annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund's performance.

During the most recent fiscal year, the fund's portfolio turnover rate was 70%

of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal strategies
Principal investments



The fund invests primarily in stocks of companies that are believed to be

undervalued or overlooked in the marketplace. These stocks also generally have

price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios below the market average. Under normal

circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount

of any borrowing for investment purposes) in equity securities issued by

small/medium capitalization companies (that is, companies with a total market

capitalization of less than $6.0 billion at the time of purchase). The fund

invests only in stocks that are traded on major exchanges or the

over-the-counter market.



The fund may from time to time invest a significant portion of its assets in the

stocks of companies in various economic sectors, such as financials or

technology. The fund may invest, to a limited extent, in stocks of companies

with larger total market capitalizations and other securities, including

securities convertible into stocks. The fund may invest up to 10% of its total

assets in non-US securities, which may trade either within or outside the US.



Management process



UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. ("UBS Global AM"), the fund's

manager, selects investment advisors for the fund, subject to approval of the

fund's board. Buckhead Capital Management, LLC ("Buckhead"), Metropolitan West

Capital Management, LLC ("MetWest Capital") and Systematic Financial Management,

L.P. ("Systematic") currently serve as the fund's investment advisors. The

relative value of each investment advisor's share of the fund's assets may

change over time.



Buckhead utilizes a fundamental, bottom-up, research-driven investment process

that is designed to identify companies that it believes (1) are attractively

valued; (2) have strong underlying fundamental characteristics; and (3) likely

have one or more catalysts that are expected to drive their share prices higher.

Buckhead seeks to build concentrated portfolios (typically 35-50 holdings) with

the largest positions in those companies that it believes have the highest

likelihood of outperforming the market and/or the fund's benchmark. In general,

securities will be sold if: (1) the stock's price reaches a certain price level

determined by Buckhead; (2) the stock's issuer undergoes a change that makes the

holding of the stock inconsistent with Buckhead's strategy; and/or (3) a more

attractive investment opportunity is identified. Additionally, if a security's

price appreciates such that it accounts for more than 5% of Buckhead's segment

of the fund, a portion of the holding generally will be sold to remain below

that threshold.



MetWest Capital directly researches smaller capitalization businesses it views

as "high-quality" and attempts to identify companies selling below intrinsic

value with one or more clear catalysts to realize full value within the

investment time horizon (typically two to four years). MetWest Capital utilizes

a bottom-up, fundamental, research-driven, low-risk style that it believes is

ideally suited to the small cap market segment, along with a long-term focus

that attempts to take advantage of opportunities presented by short-term

anomalies in high-quality stocks.



Systematic employs an investment approach that utilizes (1) quantitative

screening of all companies within the small/mid capitalization universe and (2)

fundamental research, which seeks to gauge investor expectations by focusing on

key revenue and margin assumptions underlying earnings estimates. Systematic's

investment philosophy is predicated on its belief that stock prices reflect the

market's estimates of earnings, and as revisions to those estimates are made by

the market, stock prices will follow suit. By focusing only on companies whose

fundamentals are improving, as confirmed by Systematic's research analysis and

as evidenced by a positive earnings surprise, Systematic's process seeks to

avoid the chances of buying stocks that have experienced significant price

depreciation and, as a result, are mistaken as value stocks. Systematic is

expected to typically invest in 60 to 90 securities, with a market

capitalization range generally consistent with that of the fund's benchmark.
Principal risks
All investments carry a certain amount of risk and the fund cannot guarantee

that it will achieve its investment objective. You may lose money by investing

in the fund. An investment in the fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not

insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other

government agency. The principal risks presented by an investment in the fund

are:



Equity risk: Stocks and other equity securities, and securities convertible into

stocks, generally fluctuate in value more than bonds. The fund could lose all of

its investment in a company's stock.



Sector risk: Because the fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in

the stocks of companies in particular economic sectors, economic changes

adversely affecting such a sector may have more of an impact on the fund's

performance than another fund having a broader range of investments.



Limited capitalization risk: The risk that securities of smaller capitalization

companies tend to be more volatile and less liquid than securities of larger

capitalization companies. This can have a disproportionate effect on the market

price of smaller capitalization companies and affect the fund's ability to

purchase or sell these securities. In general, smaller capitalization companies

are more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic

developments and they may have more limited resources.



Market risk: The risk that the market value of the fund's investments may

fluctuate, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, as the stock and bond markets

fluctuate. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry, or sector of the

economy, or it may affect the market as a whole.



Foreign investing risk: The value of the fund's investments in foreign

securities may fall due to adverse political, social and economic developments

abroad and due to decreases in foreign currency values relative to the US

dollar. Investments in foreign government bonds involve special risks because

the fund may have limited legal recourse in the event of default. Also, foreign

securities are sometimes less liquid and more difficult to sell and to value

than securities of US issuers. These risks are greater for investments in

emerging market issuers. In addition, investments in emerging market issuers may

decline in value because of unfavorable foreign government actions, greater

risks of political instability or the absence of accurate information about

emerging market issuers.



Management risk: The risk that the investment strategies, techniques and risk

analyses employed by an investment advisor may not produce the desired results.
Performance
Risk/return bar chart and table



The performance information that follows shows the fund's performance

information in a bar chart and an average annual total returns table. The bar

chart does not reflect the sales charges of the fund's Class C shares; if it

did, the total returns shown would be lower. The information provides some

indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the

fund's performance from year to year and by showing how the fund's average

annual total returns compare with those of a broad measure of market

performance. The fund's past performance (before and after taxes) is not

necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. This may

be particularly true given that other investment advisors were responsible for

managing portions of the fund's assets during previous periods. On October 1,

2005, MetWest Capital assumed day-to-day management of a portion of the fund's

assets. On May 28, 2009, Buckhead and Systematic each assumed responsibility for

managing a separate portion of the fund's assets. Updated performance for the

fund is available at http://globalam-us.ubs.com/corpweb/performance.do.



After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal

marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local

taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may

differ from those shown. In addition, the after-tax returns shown are not

relevant to investors who hold fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements,

such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns for

other classes will vary from the Class C shares' after-tax returns shown. Prior

to September 30, 2003, Class C shares were subject to a maximum front-end sales

charge of 1.00%; this front end sales charge is not reflected in the average

annual total returns table for Class C shares.
PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments Annual Total Returns of Class C Shares
Bar Chart
Total return January 1 - September 30, 2011: (21.28)%

Best quarter during calendar years shown-2Q 2009: 27.19%

Worst quarter during calendar years shown-4Q 2008: (27.90)%
Average annual total returns (for the periods ended December 31, 2010)
Average Annual Total Returns PACE Small/Medium Co Value Equity Investments
Average Annual Returns, Label
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, 5 Years
Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
Class A
Class A Return before taxes 16.24% 1.98% 6.49% Nov. 27, 2000
Class B
Class B Return before taxes 16.99% 1.94% 6.60% Nov. 28, 2000
Class C
Class C Return before taxes 21.13% 2.35% 6.29% Nov. 27, 2000
Class C After Taxes on Distributions
Class C Return after taxes on distributions 21.13% 1.67% 5.30% Nov. 27, 2000
Class C After Taxes on Distributions and Sales
Class C Return after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares 13.73% 1.82% 5.29% Nov. 27, 2000
Class Y
Class Y Return before taxes 23.31% 3.50% 7.43% Dec. 20, 2000
Russell 2500 Value Index
Russell 2500 Value Index (Index reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes.) 24.82% 3.85% 8.53%  
[1] Except that the expenses reflect the effects of the fund's fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement for the first year only.