DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda discusses home prices and the housing market in this article reprint originally run by Barron’s on December 29, 2022. External link to Barron’s website, click here

Since its acceptance into the World Trade Organization on Dec. 11, 2001, China has become an ever-more dominant player on the stage of global trade and growth. Today, the Chinese wield influence in many countries through trade and financial linkages, … Read More

For three quarters of a century, the U.S. dollar has reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency. Even amid America’s declining share of the global economy and, since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), massive monetization of the U.S. national debt, … Read More

As the Federal Reserve winds down its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), let’s take a long-term look at the investment grade corporate bond market. The purpose of this exercise is to compare the past to the present and see … Read More

“Investors need to be worried about inflation. But it’s not a stagflation world yet,” Jeffrey Sherman, deputy chief investment officer at DoubleLine, tells ThinkAdvisor in an interview. “The best asset class to hedge against inflation is commodities,” he argues. The … Read More

Unconstrained bond funds generally fall into a broad category of fixed income strategies that defy the neat categorization investors have come to expect from the investment fund landscape. Morningstar defines the unconstrained category as funds that use both tactical duration … Read More

The DoubleLine Total Return Tactical Strategy seeks to maximize total return over a full market cycle by actively investing across global fixed income sectors. The strategy normally maintains a shorter duration and higher yield than its benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays … Read More

While of recent invention, the catch phrase “Smart Beta” represents an extension or evolution of “quantitative investment” techniques of decades-old lineage. The revolutionary movement lies in Smart Beta’s democratization of these techniques and making them transparent to investors.

By way of … Read More

The Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) continued to buy Agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) throughout the first quarter, purchasing roughly $370 billion gross and $145 billion net. The Fed announced that after March 23 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will … Read More

DoubleLine has partnered with Professor Robert Shiller to create an equity offering. Can you describe the motivation for the strategy and how the DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE® Strategy enhances DoubleLine’s current suite of products?
First off, CAPE® stands for Cyclically Adjusted … Read More