Ugo Egbunike, a fixed income specialist at Jane Street, joins DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Sherman and Samuel Lau on The Sherman Show during the InsideETFs conference in Hollywood, Florida. Mr. Egbunike kicks the episode off by recounting his time as a Bowdoin University undergrad with authorial aspirations and pre-med designs who would end up an econ major jumping into the then-“bleak” hiring market of 2009. (1:14) His first job at Kellogg Capital Markets introduced him to ETFs, a focus that led him to the San Francisco startup scene and Index Universe, where he was “baptized in the comforts and the benefits of passive investing, and the good that ETFs were doing.”
Topics that Mr. Egbunike discusses with Messrs. Sherman and Lau include quantifying “best” exposures amid marketing messages of “cheap cheap, fees fees” (10:52), Jane Street’s place in the ETF ecosystem (13:42), fixed income ETFs’ price-discovery function (21:42) and risk management of passive and active products (28:06). The three also cover the secondary market for Air Jordans (7:25), thematic ETFs (11:48) and the three things that Mr. Egbunike says every ETF investor should know (37:39). This episode was recorded June 1, 2022.
Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer, is a thought leader, portfolio manager and public speaker in the industry. Mr. Sherman is a member of DoubleLine’s Fixed Income and Global Asset Allocation committees, and he serves as lead portfolio manager for the firm’s multi-sector and derivative-based strategies. In his role, Mr. Sherman guides the investment teams in developing top-down macro views and collaborative asset allocation processes throughout a market cycle. Additionally, he is a member of DoubleLine’s Executive Management Committee. In 2018, Money Management Executive named Mr. Sherman as one of “10 Fund Managers to Watch” in its yearly special report. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Mr. Sherman was a Senior Vice President at TCW, where he worked as a portfolio manager and quantitative analyst focused on fixed income and real-asset portfolios. Prior to that, he was a statistics and mathematics instructor at the University of the Pacific and Florida State University. Mr. Sherman taught Quantitative Methods for Level I candidates in the USC/CFALA CFA® Review Program for many years. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of the Pacific and an M.S. in Financial Engineering from Claremont Graduate University. Mr. Sherman is a CFA® charterholder.
Mr. Lau joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation (FIAA) Committee and a contributing member on the Global Asset Allocation and Macro Committees. Mr. Lau is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s strategic commodity strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives-based and multi-asset strategies, including DoubleLine's Shiller Enhanced CAPE®, Shiller Enhanced International CAPE®, Real Estate and Income, and Multi-Asset Trend strategies. He also co-hosts the Sherman Show (Twitter @ShermanShowPod, ShermanShow@Doubleline.com) and Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcasts. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Lau was a Vice President at TCW where he worked under Jeffrey Gundlach as a Research Analyst in the Mortgage Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
