Jeff Gundlach

Formal First Name

Jeffrey (Jeff)

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Bond King

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1959 - present

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Jeff Gundlach, widely known as The Bond King, is the Co-Founder and CEO of DoubleLine, a mutual fund company that manages $91 billion in assets. Gundlach is one of the most influential people in financial markets and a recognized expert in bonds and other debt-related investments. He is a bond trader extraordinaire known for his bold calls and correctly predicted the housing crash in 2007. Prior to launching DoubleLine, his career in finance has been marked by notable achievements. He served as the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Fixed Income Activities at the TCW Group, where he helped build the firm’s fixed income business.

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	Financial Market
	Mutual Fund

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Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Founder

2009 - present

DoubleLine
Chief Investment Officer and Head of Fixed Income Activities

Chief Investment Officer

TCW Group

He is recognized as a leading expert in mortgage-backed securities and investment asset allocation.
He is an avid modern art collector and owns works by artists including Warhol, Mondrian and de Kooning.

Gundlach served as the former head of $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund and consistently ranked in the top 2% of all funds invested in intermediate-term bonds for a decade.
In 2009, he was unexpectedly fired from TCW, leading to legal disputes and a jury trial.
In the aftermath, Gundlach and TCW sued each other and went to jury trial in California; TCW alleged that Gundlach stole trade secrets, Gundlach sued over compensation claims (Gundlach prevailed, and was awarded $66.7 Million).

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Gundlach has been featured or quoted in CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Yahoo! Finance, Fox Business, Business Insider, Barron's, and more.
He has also been quoted in CoinDesk and MarketWatch.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.

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