PIMCO Income Opportunity Fund appointed Alfred Murata and Bryan Tsu as co-Portfolio Managers of the Fund effective immediately. Mr. Murata is a managing director and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, managing income-oriented, multi-sector credit, opportunistic and securitized strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he researched and implemented exotic equity and interest rate derivatives at Nikko Financials Technologies. Mr. Tsu is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the New York office, focusing on commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, he worked at Bear Stearns in New York, syndicating collateralized loan and collateralized debt obligations and other asset-backed transactions.