Retirement Income Can Be a Complex Challenge

DoubleLine is an investment partner that helps clients navigate today’s pension, defined contribution (DC) and retirement income landscape. As a thought leader in asset allocation, DoubleLine combines decades of investment experience with practical insights to help clients make informed retirement income decisions.

Retirement Solutions in Focus

DoubleLine offers plan sponsors a suite of investment solutions, tailored for retirement plans and participants. Our mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), collective investment trusts (CITs) and custom separate accounts can all be made available to participants. Visit DoubleLine.com/Strategies/ for a list of all DoubleLine investment solutions.

Short-Term Bond
Low Duration Bond

Intermediate Core Bond
Securitized Income

Intermediate Core Plus Bond
Core Plus Fixed Income
Total Return Bond

Retirement Solutions Client Resources

DoubleLine is a partner to plan committees and their trusted consultants and advisors. To continue discussions around evaluating retirement income solutions, investment policy statement considerations or asset allocation decisions, please email Retirement@DoubleLine.com.

Retirement Income Decision-Making

HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE: “Retirement Income Solutions Are Purple” – Decision-Making Toolkit for Consultants and Committees

Retirement income analysis and decion making can be complex, but the decisions don’t have to feel unmanageable. The PURPLE framework helps committees, advisers, and plan sponsors bring structure and clarity by organizing the large universe of retirement income options into two simple buckets: Products and Services.

With those buckets in place, our open-source toolkit helps you:

  • Build a roadmap that identifies decision-makers and responsibilities.
  • Segment products and services into clear types and subtypes.
  • Evaluate diverse products and their tradeoffs using the
    B-I-G-G lens: Ballast, Income, Growth, Gates.
  • Compare different types of services using the G-R-O-W lens: Goals, Results, Operations, Worth.
  • Apply a consistent, repeatable process that is flexible for a variety of IPS and RFP decisions.
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Whether you’re a fiduciary, consultant, or plan sponsor, this framework delivers clarity, governance, and a clear path to follow when making retirement income decisions.


The evaluation process for retirement income products and services continues to be a complex decision for plan sponsors.  Below, we discuss a thoughtful, color-coded approach to help outline a process for committees. To request the full Retirement Income Decision-Making Course and Toolkit, please email Retirement@DoubleLine.com.

How Retirement Committees Can Review Retirement Income Products and Services – Part I



Investment Policy Statement Considerations

HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE: Adviser and Client Product and Service Availability Checklist

The inventory checklist helps advisers and consultants assess available Products and Services with their clients, an important step in the retirement income decision-making process.

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To request the full Investment Policy Statement Considerations Course and Toolkit, please email Retirement@DoubleLine.com.

Fixed Income’s Multipurpose Role in Retirement Income

HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE: Securitized Products in Retirement Accounts – Hiding in Plain Sight

Watch a short video primer on the diversification benefits of securitized credit and how active management in fixed income can benefit investment menus in these four sectors of Securitized Credit:

  1. Asset-Backed Securities (ABS)
  2. Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)
  3. Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS)
  4. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS)


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For the full webinar on all securitized products and more on the multipurpose role of fixed income in retirement-income asset allocation, please email Retirement@DoubleLine.com.


DoubleLine does not provide legal or tax advice. Please consult your tax and/or legal counsel for specific tax or legal questions and concerns. The discussion herein is general in nature and is provided for informational purposes only. There is no guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness. Any tax statements contained herein are not intended or written to be used, and cannot be relied upon or used for the purpose of avoiding penalties imposed by the Internal Revenue Service or state and local tax authorities. Individuals should consult their own legal and tax counsel as to matters discussed herein and before entering into any estate planning, trust, investment, retirement, or insurance arrangement.

Any tax or legal information provided is merely a summary of our understanding and interpretation of some of the current income tax regulations and is not exhaustive. Investors must consult their tax advisor or legal counsel for advice and information concerning their particular situation. Neither the Fund nor any of its representatives may give legal or tax advice.