Gundlach Warns Investors Will Lose Money on Private Credit

Jeffrey GundlachPhotographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

DoubleLine Capital Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Gundlach raised pointed questions about financial advisers and other intermediaries who ushered individual investors into private credit and other so-called semi-liquid funds, suggesting they’ve been motivated by high fees as much as by their clients’ interests.

“It’s clear that prospectuses talked about the gating mechanism, but I have a feeling that the financial intermediaries, not all of them of course, but enough of them, didn’t explain,” he said Wednesday on a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills.