Get answers to the 10 most-frequently-asked questions about the DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE® product.
First off, CAPE® stands for Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings. The DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE® Strategy extends and complements our current product suite by offering what we believe was a previously unavailable large-cap equity strategy while pairing it with our core competency as fixed income managers. The DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE® Strategy gives investors access to a unique source of equity alpha, which we seek to enhance by pairing the portfolio with a fixed income collateral pool that seeks to outperform cash. The primary generator of potential return will be the value approach to large-cap stocks, implemented via the Barclays Shiller CAPE® U.S. Sector Total Return Index (the “CAPE® Index”), but the strategy will seek additional return from the fixed income collateral. This “double-value” proposition allows an investor to obtain exposure to equities while hopefully generating positive return on the invested cash simultaneously. The concept is that $1 worth of the fixed income collateral roughly backs $1 exposure via swaps to the CAPE® Index.
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. 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 Committee and a contributing member on our Global Asset Allocation and Macro committees. He also co-hosts DoubleLine’s weekly Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcast. 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.
