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Class P Prospectus | PACE® Government Money Market Investments
PACE® Government Money Market Investments
Investment objective

Current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity.

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.

Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
Class P Prospectus
PACE® Government Money Market Investments
Class P
[1]
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) imposed on purchases none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) none
[1] Class P shares held through the PACE Select Advisors Program are subject to a maximum Program fee of 2.50%. Class P shares held through other advisory programs also may be subject to a program fee.
Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
Class P Prospectus
PACE® Government Money Market Investments
Class P
Management fees 0.25%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees none
Other expenses (includes administration fee of 0.10%) 0.70%
Total annual fund operating expenses 0.95%
Management fee waiver/expense reimbursements 0.35% [1]
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursements 0.60% [1]
[1] The fund and UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. ("UBS AM") have entered into a written fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its management fees and/or reimburse expenses so that the fund's ordinary total operating expenses through November 30, 2018 (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 0.60% for Class P. The fund has agreed to repay UBS 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 this expense cap and that UBS AM has not waived the right to do so. 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 AM. Upon termination of the agreement, however, UBS 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. 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:

Expense Example
1 year
3 years
5 years
10 years
Class P Prospectus | PACE® Government Money Market Investments | Class P | USD ($) [1] 61 268 491 1,134
[1] Except that the expenses reflect the effects of the fund's fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement for the first year only.
Principal strategies

Principal investments


The fund is a money market mutual fund and seeks to maintain a stable price of $1.00 per share. To do this, the fund invests in a diversified portfolio of high quality, U.S. government money market instruments and in related repurchase agreements.


Money market instruments generally are short-term debt obligations and similar securities. They also may include longer-term bonds that have variable interest rates or other special features that give them the financial characteristics of short-term debt. The fund has adopted a policy to invest 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities) in order to qualify as a "government money market fund" under federal regulations. By operating as a government money market fund, the fund is exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the fund's board may elect to subject the fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the board has not elected to do so at this time. Many US government money market instruments pay income that is generally exempt from state and local income tax, although they may be subject to corporate franchise tax in some states. In addition, under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in US government securities, including government securities subject to repurchase agreements.


The fund may invest a significant percentage of its assets in repurchase agreements. Repurchase agreements are transactions in which the fund purchases government securities and simultaneously commits to resell them to the same counterparty at a future time and at a price reflecting a market rate of interest. Income from repurchase agreements may not be exempt from state and local income taxation. Repurchase agreements often offer a higher yield than investments directly in government securities. In deciding whether an investment in a repurchase agreement is more attractive than a direct investment in government securities, the fund considers the possible loss of this tax advantage.


Management process


UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. ("UBS AM"), the fund's manager and investment advisor, selects money market instruments for the fund based on its assessment of relative values and changes in market and economic conditions. UBS AM considers safety of principal and liquidity in selecting securities for the fund and thus may not buy securities that pay the highest yield.

Principal risks

All investments carry a certain amount of risk, and the fund cannot guarantee that it will achieve its investment objective.


You could lose money by investing in the fund. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund's sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to the fund, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial support to the fund at any time.


Money market instruments generally have a low risk of loss, but they are not risk-free. The principal risks presented by an investment in the fund are:


Credit risk: Issuers of money market instruments may fail to make payments when due, or they may become less willing or less able to do so.


Interest rate risk: The value of the fund's investments generally will fall when short term interest rates rise, and its yield will tend to lag behind prevailing rates. The risks associated with rising interest rates may be more pronounced going forward due to the end of an extended period of historically low rates.


Liquidity risk: Although the fund invests in a diversified portfolio of high quality instruments, the fund's investments may become less liquid as a result of market developments or adverse investor perception.


Management risk: The risk that the investment strategies, techniques and risk analyses employed by UBS AM may not produce the desired results.


Market risk: The risk that the market value of the fund's investments may fluctuate, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, as the markets fluctuate, which may affect the fund's ability to maintain a $1.00 share price. Market risk may affect a single issuer, industry, or sector of the economy, or it may affect the market as a whole. Moreover, changing market, economic and political conditions in one country or geographic region could adversely impact market, economic and political conditions in other countries or regions.


US government securities risk: There are different types of US government securities with different levels of credit risk, including the risk of default, depending on the nature of the particular government support for that security. For example, a US government-sponsored entity, such as Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac"), although chartered or sponsored by an Act of Congress, may issue securities that are neither insured nor guaranteed by the US Treasury and are therefore riskier than those that are.

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 maximum annual PACE Select Advisors Program fee; 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. The fund's past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Prior to November 28, 2015, the fund was named PACE Money Market Investments, and the fund operated under certain different investment policies. The fund's historical performance may not represent its current investment policies. Updated performance information is available by contacting your Financial Advisor or by calling 1-888-793 8637 (Option #1).

PACE Government Money Market Investments Annual Total Returns of Class P Shares
Bar Chart

Total return January 1 - September 30, 2017: 0.18%
Best quarter during calendar years shown—2Q 2007: 1.19%
Worst quarters during calendar years shown—3Q 2009 & 1Q, 2Q & 3Q, 2010 & 1Q, 2011: 0.00%
(Actual total return was 0.0024%)

Average annual total returns (figures do not reflect the deduction of the PACE Select Advisors Program Fee) (for the periods ended December 31, 2016)
Average Annual Returns
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, 5 Years
Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Average Annual Returns, Inception Date
Class P Prospectus | PACE® Government Money Market Investments | Class P 0.01% 0.01% 0.70% Aug. 24, 1995