Allianz Global Investors Teams with Carpenter Group to Create Award-Winning Value-Add...

Allianz Global Investors Teams with Carpenter Group to Create Award-Winning
Value-Add Program

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 15, 2009, the Financial
Communications Society - a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving
professional standards of the financial communications arena - recognized
Allianz Global Investors (AGI) and Carpenter Group for their work in creating
a new value-add program focused on helping advisors enhance their
communications skills.

"Communication is a critical part of the advisor-client relationship," said
Cathleen Stahl, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing at Allianz Global
Investors Distributors LLC. "Recognizing this, Allianz Global Investors wanted
to build a program that would provide advisors with the skills they need to
communicate effectively with their clients regardless of the situation - from
presentations to telephone calls."

AGI partnered with Carpenter Group to create materials that were both engaging
in their presentation of the subject matter and effective in their delivery.
Carpenter Group positioned the program around the concept of "making a
personal connection" and created a design system that ensured that advisors
would take notice. Carpenter Group also developed a unique "program in a box"
format that enabled AGI to make the program more accessible to advisors.

According to Polly Carpenter, President of Carpenter Group, "The increasing
importance that distribution partners are placing on practice management means
that firms need to deliver high value content that is both accessible and
readily applicable to everyday sales processes."

About Carpenter Group
Carpenter Group helps financial services organizations improve growth and
profitability through practical business advice, branding and marketing, and
creative implementation services, including technology-enabled solutions.
Carpenter Group offers a unique combination of business acumen and creativity
to help executives think through business issues, develop practical action
plans and implement impactful programs.

About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors, the asset management division of Allianz SE (NYSE:
AZ), is a leading investment management company, with more than $1 trillion
under management as of March 31, 2009. Allianz Global Investors offers access
to a premier group of institutional investment firms, including PIMCO, NFJ
Investment Group, RCM, Nicholas-Applegate and Oppenheimer Capital. The
company offers investment solutions across a broad spectrum of asset classes
and investment styles in a wide array of products, including mutual funds,
managed accounts and closed-end funds.

For additional information: http://www.carpenternyc.com/

(C) 2009. Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, 1345 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10105-4800, www.allianzinvestors.com, 1-888-877-4626.

SOURCE Carpenter Group

Polly Carpenter of Carpenter Group, +1-212-431-6666