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

Understanding the development process in each of a strategy’s target markets is crucial for identifying turning points before they actually happen. The fundamentals-based approach of the TCW Emerging Markets Income Fund’s team, relying in large part on primary research, enables it to assess these opportunities at an early stage and

In the course of an economic cycle, fixed-income securities can have strong mean reversing tendencies. Although interest rates, the shape of the yield curve, and sector spreads tend to move around, they eventually migrate to an average level over the cycle. Stephen Kane, portfolio manager of the MetWest Unconstrained Bond

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