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TCW Total Return Bond Fund

Investing in mortgage securities is unique because of highly individualized cash flows and risks associated with prepayments. A proper analysis of such securities invariably requires infrastructure as well as professionals with deep knowledge of the investment space. Mitch Flack explains how the portfolio team at the TCW Total Return Bond Fund seeks opportunities on a relative value basis and makes investments based on a framework positioned relative to the index.

TCW Total Return Bond Fund

Most intermediate bond funds rely on corporate bonds to deliver attractive total returns while anchoring overall credit exposure by using U.S. government and agencies’ debt. Mitch Flack explains how the portfolio team of the TCW Total Return Bond Fund seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by employing the company’s extensive research and trading capabilities and investing carefully in broader classes of securitized debt as a central focus for the fund.