There are three managers of the Allianz NFJ Dividend Value Fund:
Ben Fischer, CFA, is a founding partner, managing director, and portfolio manager of NFJ Investment Group in Dallas. He has held senior posts at NationsBank, including CIO, institutional and fixed income, and earlier in his career was a securities analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and Clark Dodge. Fischer holds an economics BA and a JD from the University of Oklahoma, and an MBA from New York University. He swims and skis to relax but says investments are not only his profession, they are his hobby and avocation: "When you do something you love, it's really not work."