Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Asset Allocation Strategist Ryan Kimmel on Sept. 4 survey a week ended with a flat S&P 500 (0.42) and, despite a slight rise in yields, a flat return on the Bloomberg Aggregate (3:02). Energy prices rose (6:10) on persistent hostilities in the Middle East. Their macro wrap-up (7:51) includes Friday’s report of stronger-than-expected payroll growth in August. “The market doesn’t seem to care about the labor market. By any stretch of the imagination, we’re at full employment,” Jeff Mayberry notes. “It’s not the jobs number or the unemployment rate that people worry about. It’s inflation.” The Labor Day-shortened week ahead will provide some of those answers with the August PPI on Thursday and CPI on Friday. “I’m going to be focused on Core CPI,” Ryan Kimmel says. “Waller basically said how he’s going to vote will depend on that number. Pretty remarkable, putting it all on one data print.”
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Mr. Mayberry joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s Strategic Commodity Strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives‐based and multi‐asset strategies. Mr. Mayberry is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation (FIAA) committee and a contributing member on our Global Asset Allocation committee. He also co-hosts DoubleLine’s weekly “Minutes” podcast (X @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com). Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Mayberry was a Senior Vice President at TCW for nine years within the Mortgage Group, where he specialized in portfolio and fund monitoring and analytics. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. in Financial Engineering from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Mr. Kimmel joined DoubleLine in 2013. He is a Strategist on the Macro Asset Allocation team, the Fixed Income Asset Allocation (FIAA) Committee and a contributing member on our Global Asset Allocation Committee. Mr. Kimmel also co-hosts DoubleLine’s weekly “Minutes” podcast (X @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com). Prior to DoubleLine, he was a Proprietary Trader at Gelber Group. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Kimmel holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
