PIMCO Municipal Income Fund III Reports Earnings Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2019

PIMCO Municipal Income Fund III (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek to provide current income exempt from federal income tax. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 90% of its net assets in municipal bonds which pay interest that is exempt from regular federal income taxes. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in investments the interest from which is subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in municipal bonds that at the time of investment are investment grade quality or bonds that are unrated but determined to be of comparable quality by the Fund. The Fund invests in various sectors, such as state/local government, education, hospital, housing, lease, power, transportation, special tax, water and sewer, tobacco, mortgage and resource recovery. The Fund's investment manager is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.