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RNS Number : 2480T  PIMCO ETFs PLC  30 July 2025

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This document is important and requires your immediate attention.  If you are
in doubt as to the action you should take you should seek advice from your
stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, tax adviser, accountant or other
independent financial adviser.  If you have sold or transferred all of your
Shares in PIMCO ETFs plc, please pass this document at once to the
stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was
effected, for transmission to the purchaser or transferee as soon as possible.
The Directors of PIMCO ETFs plc are the persons responsible for the
information contained in this document. Please note that this document is not
reviewed by the Central Bank of Ireland.

 

 

CIRCULAR TO SHAREHOLDERS OF

 

PIMCO Euro Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Dollar Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Sterling Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Emerging Markets Advantage Local Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Covered Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

each sub-funds of

 

 

PIMCO ETFs plc

(An open-ended umbrella type investment company with variable capital and with
segregated liability between Funds incorporated with limited liability in
Ireland under the Companies Act 2014 with registered number 489440 and
established as an undertaking for collective investment in transferable
securities pursuant to the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective
Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations, 2011, as amended).

NOTICE CONVENING AN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON 10 SEPTEMBER, 2025 IS
SET OUT IN APPENDIX I. YOU ARE REQUESTED TO COMPLETE AND RETURN THE RELEVANT
FORM OF PROXY SET OUT IN APPENDIX II BY 1 P.M. ON 8 SEPTEMBER, 2025 AT THE
LATEST IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED THEREON.

 

FORMS OF PROXY ARE SET OUT IN APPENDIX II AND SHOULD BE RETURNED NO LATER THAN
48 HOURS BEFORE THE TIME FIXED FOR THE HOLDING OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
TO:

 

Laura Campbell

Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited

The Exchange, George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01 W3P9, Ireland

or

Email: cosec@walkersglobal.com

 

 

PIMCO ETFs plc - (the "Company")

 

PIMCO Euro Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Dollar Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Sterling Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Emerging Markets Advantage Local Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Covered Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

 (the "Funds")

 

30 July, 2025

 

Dear Registered Shareholder,

 

1.     Introduction

 

As you are aware, the Company is an investment company with variable capital
and with segregated liability between Funds, incorporated with limited
liability under the laws of Ireland, authorised on 9 December, 2010 by the
Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") pursuant to the European
Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable
Securities) Regulations 2011, as amended (the "Regulations"). The Company is
an umbrella company, which comprises a number of sub-funds.

 

Unless the context otherwise requires and except as varied or otherwise
specified in this circular, words and expressions (including defined terms)
used in the circular shall bear the same meaning as in the current Prospectus
of the Company.

 

The Directors will convene an annual general meeting of the Company on 10
September, 2025, at which the General Business outlined below will be
presented to Citivic Nominees Limited as the sole registered Shareholder of
the Company (the "Registered Shareholder").

 

As the Company uses the International Central Securities Depository ("ICSD")
model of settlement and Citivic Nominees Limited is the sole Registered
Shareholder of the Company under the ICSD settlement model, physical
attendance of investors who are not the Registered Shareholder does not take
place at annual general meetings of the Company. Investors should send voting
instructions through the relevant ICSD or the relevant participant in an ICSD
(such as a local central securities depository). If any investor has invested
in Funds of the Company through a broker/dealer/other intermediary, the
investor should contact this entity or its relevant proxy voting agent to
provide voting instructions. The Registered Shareholder will collate the
voting instructions of each investor and will vote in favour of or against the
proposed amendments based on the voting instructions received.

 

General Business

 

(a) To receive and consider the Directors' report, the Auditor's report and
financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2025 and to review
the Company's affairs

 

The Registered Shareholder will be asked to receive and consider the
Directors' report, the Auditor's report and financial statements for the
fiscal year ended 31 March, 2025 (which are available at www.pimco.com
(http://www.pimco.com) ) and to review the Company's affairs.

 

(b) To re-appoint Grant Thornton as Auditors to the Company

 

The Registered Shareholder will be asked to approve the reappointment of Grant
Thornton as Auditors to the Company.

 

(c)  To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors

 

The Registered Shareholder will be asked to authorise the Directors to fix the
annual remuneration of the Auditors.

 

 

2.   Shareholders' Approval

 

For the sanctioning of the ordinary resolutions in relation to the
re-appointment of Grant Thornton as Auditors to the Company and the
authorisation of the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors, the
Registered Shareholder must pass the ordinary resolutions (consisting of a
simple majority of the total number of votes cast).

 

The quorum for the annual general meeting of the Company is one Registered
Shareholder present (in person or by proxy). If within half an hour from the
time appointed for the annual general meeting, a quorum is not present, it
shall be adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and
place or to such other day and at such other time and place as the Directors
may determine.

 

If you are a registered holder of Shares, you will receive a proxy form with
this circular.  Please read the notes printed on the form, which will assist
you in completing the proxy form, and return the proxy form to us.  To be
valid, your appointment of proxy must be received no later than 48 hours
before the time appointed for the annual general meeting and therefore by 1
p.m. on 8 September, 2025 (Irish time) at the latest.

 

3.   Director's Recommendation

 

We believe that the proposed resolutions are in the best interests of
investors as a whole and therefore recommend that you vote in favour of the
proposals. These proposals do not change the value of your investments.

 

Investors may continue to redeem their investments in the Company free of
charge on any Dealing Day in accordance with the provisions of the Prospectus.

 

4.   Notice and Proxy Forms

 

Details of the specific resolutions which the Registered Shareholder will be
asked to approve are detailed in the notice and proxy forms attached to this
circular.

 

This circular is accompanied by the following documents:

 

1.             Notice of the annual general meeting of the Company
to be held at 1 p.m. on 10 September, 2025 at the offices of Walkers Corporate
Services (Ireland) Limited, The Exchange, George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01
W3P9, Ireland (Appendix I);

 

2.             A proxy form which allows you to cast your vote by
proxy (Appendix II); and

 

3.             Audited accounts for the Company prepared for the
fiscal year ended 31 March, 2025 which include a statement of the assets and
liabilities of each of the Funds.

 

In order to exercise your vote, please complete the attached proxy form and
return it to:

 

Laura Campbell,

Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited

The Exchange,

George's Dock,

IFSC,

Dublin 1,

D01 W3P9,

Ireland.

 

To be valid, the proxy forms must be received at the above address or email
cosec@walkersglobal.com no later than 48 hours before the time fixed for the
holding of the annual general meeting.

 

For any questions regarding this matter, investors may consult their financial
adviser, the Company's appointed representative in that country or the
Administrator.  The Administrator may be contacted via e-mail at
PIMCOEMteam@StateStreet.com (mailto:PIMCOEMteam@StateStreet.com) , or by
telephone as follows:

 

EMEA: +353 1 776 9990

Hong Kong: +852 35561498

Singapore: +65 68267589

Taiwan: 00801136992

Americas: +1 416 5068337

 

 

 

 

Yours faithfully,

 

_________________

 

Director,

For and on behalf of

PIMCO ETFs plc

 

APPENDIX I

 

Notice of Annual General Meeting

 

PIMCO ETFs PLC

(the "Company")

 

PIMCO Euro Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Dollar Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Sterling Short Maturity UCITS ETF

PIMCO Emerging Markets Advantage Local Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Covered Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO US Low Duration Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

PIMCO Euro Short-Term High Yield Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

 (the "Funds")

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of the Registered
Shareholder of the Company will be held at Walkers Corporate Services
(Ireland) Limited, The Exchange, George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01 W3P9,
Ireland on 10 September, 2025 at 1 p.m. for the following purposes:

 

General Business

 

1.     To receive and consider the Directors' report, the Auditor's report
and financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2025 and to
review the Company's affairs.

 

2.     To re-appoint Grant Thornton as Auditors to the Company.

 

3.     To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors.

 

4.     Any other business.

 

 

____________________________________

For and on behalf of

Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited

Secretary

 

Dated this 30(th) day of July, 2025

APPENDIX II

 

Note:      An investor entitled to vote at the above meeting is entitled
to appoint a proxy or

proxies to vote in his/her stead.  A proxy need not be an investor in the
Company.

 

PROXY FORM

 

PIMCO ETFs PLC

(the "Company")

 

I/We*
 

 

of
 

 

being an investor/investors* of the above named Company hereby appoint --the
chairman or, failing him/her, Laura Campbell, Anthony Finegan and Elizabeth
Ogundero for Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited or, failing him/her,
any other representative of Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited, or
failing him/her,

 

 
              of
____________________________________________________

 

as my/our* proxy to vote on my/our* behalf in the manner indicated below at
the annual general meeting of the Company to be held at the registered office
of the Company, c/o Walkers Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited, The
Exchange, George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01 W3P9, Ireland on 10 September,
2025 at 1 p.m. and at any adjournment thereof.

 

Signed    __________________________

 

Dated this ------____   day of ___--______, 2025

 

(*delete as appropriate)

 

FOR CONSIDERATION AND REVIEW

 

To receive and consider the Directors' report, the Auditor's report and
financial statements for the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2025 and to review
the Company's affairs.

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

 
 
For/Yes            Against/No

 1.     To re-appoint Grant Thornton as Auditors to the Company.

 2.     To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors.

 

 

 

Notes to Form of Proxy

 

1.      One Registered Shareholder present in person or by proxy entitled
to vote shall be a quorum for all purposes.  If within half an hour from the
time appointed for the annual general meeting, a quorum is not present, it
shall be adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and
place or to such other day and at such other time and place as the Directors
may determine. The Registered Shareholder entitled to attend and vote at any
such adjourned meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend, speak and
vote in his place and that a proxy need not be an investor in the Company.
 This notice shall be deemed to constitute due notice of any such adjourned
meeting within the meaning of the Articles.

 

2.      An investor may appoint a proxy of his own choice. If the
appointment is made, insert the name of the person appointed as proxy in the
space provided.  A person appointed to act as a proxy need not be an
investor.

 

3.      If the appointer is a corporation, this form must be under the
common seal or under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorised on his
behalf. Please note that only authorised signatories as per the authorised
signatory list on file at the offices of the Administrator may sign this form.

4.      If this form is returned without any indication as to how the
person appointed proxy shall vote he will exercise his discretion as to how he
votes or whether he abstains from voting.

 

5.      To be valid, this form must be completed and deposited by mail or
by email for the attention of Laura Campbell, Walkers Corporate Services
(Ireland) Limited, The Exchange, George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01 W3P9,
Ireland or sent to the email address of cosec@walkersglobal.com, not less than
48 hours before the time fixed for holding the annual general meeting or
adjourned meeting.

 

6.    To any investor in receipt of this circular who is not on the
Shareholder register for the relevant Fund of the Company please return the
completed proxy forms to the financial intermediary who purchased Shares in
the relevant Fund of the Company on your behalf.

 

7.      If you have any questions regarding the information provided in
this circular please contact PIMCO Shareholder Services at the following
numbers: EMEA: +353 1 776 9990, Hong Kong: +852 35561498, Singapore: +65
68267589, Taiwan: 00801136992, Americas: +1 416 5068337.  Alternatively, you
may contact us by email at: PIMCOEMteam@StateStreet.com
(mailto:PIMCOEMteam@StateStreet.com) .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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