Investment objective & strategy
As of April 24, 2025 · prospectusObjective. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek total return (capital appreciation and current income) which exceeds the total return of its benchmark.
Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by looking to achieve total return (capital appreciation and current income) in excess of the Shiller Barclays CAPE US Sector II ER USD Index (the Index). The Fund will seek to use derivatives, or a combination of derivatives and direct investments, to provide a return that tracks closely the performance of the Index. The Fund will also invest in a portfolio of debt securities to seek to provide additional long-term total return. The Fund uses investment leverage in seeking to provide both the Index return and the return on a portfolio of debt securities; it is likely that the Fund will have simultaneous exposures both to the Index and to debt securities, in … The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by looking to achieve total return (capital appreciation and current income) in excess of the Shiller Barclays CAPE US Sector II ER USD Index (the Index). The Fund will seek to use derivatives, or a combination of derivatives and direct investments, to provide a return that tracks closely the performance of the Index. The Fund will also invest in a portfolio of debt securities to seek to provide additional long-term total return. The Fund uses investment leverage in seeking to provide both the Index return and the return on a portfolio of debt securities; it is likely that the Fund will have simultaneous exposures both to the Index and to debt securities, in each case in an amount potentially up to the value of the Funds assets. It is possible that the Fund could lose money at the same time on both its investments in debt securities and its exposure to the Index. The Fund will normally use derivatives in an attempt to create an investment return approximating the Indexs return. The transaction pricing of any swap transaction will reflect a number of factors, including the limited availability of the Index, that will cause the return on the swap transaction to underperform the Index. Please see Note regarding Index-Based Swaps in the Prospectus for more information. The Fund expects to use only a small percentage of its assets to attain the desired exposure to the Index because of the structure of the derivatives the Fund expects to use. As a result, use of those derivatives along with other investments will create investment leverage in the Funds portfolio. In certain cases, however, such derivatives might be unavailable or the pricing of those derivatives might be unfavorable; in those cases, the Fund might attempt to replicate the Index return by purchasing some or all of the securities comprising the Index at the time. If the Fund at any time invests directly in the securities comprising the Index, those assets will be unavailable for investment in debt instruments, and the Funds ability to pursue its investment strategy and achieve its investment objective may be limited. To the extent use of the above-described derivatives strategy leaves a substantial portion of the Funds assets available for other investment by the Fund, the Fund expects to invest those assets in a portfolio of debt instruments managed by DoubleLine Capital LP (the Sub-Adviser) to seek to provide additional long-term total return. The Index incorporates the principles of long-term investing distilled by Dr. Robert Shiller and expressed through the CAPE (Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings) ratio (the CAPE Ratio). The Index aims to identify undervalued sectors based on a modified CAPE Ratio, and then uses a momentum factor to seek to reduce the risk of investing in a sector that may appear undervalued, but which may have also had recent relative price underperformance due to fundamental issues with the sector that may negatively affect the sectors long-term total return. The classic CAPE Ratio is used to assess equity market valuations and averages ten years of reported earnings to account for earnings and market cycles. Traditional valuation measures, such as the price-earnings (PE) ratio, by contrast, typically rely on earnings information from only the past year. The Index uses a modified version of the classic CAPE Ratio to standardize the comparison across sectors. There can be no assurance that the Index will provide a better measure of value than more traditional measures, over any period or over the long term. Through the Index, the Fund will have focused exposures to the sectors making up the Index. As of the date of this Prospectus, the eleven sectors making up the Index include: Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financials, Health Care, Industrials, Materials, Technology, Utilities and Real Estate. As a result, the Funds net asset value may be affected to a greater degree by factors affecting those sectors or industries than a fund that invests more broadly. Under normal circumstances, to the extent use of the above-described derivatives strategy leaves a substantial portion of the Funds assets available for other investment by the Fund, the Fund intends to invest those assets in a portfolio of debt instruments managed by the Sub-Adviser to seek to provide additional long-term total return. The Fund may invest directly in debt instruments; alternatively, the Sub-Adviser may choose to invest all or a portion of the Funds assets in one or more fixed-income funds managed by the Sub-Adviser. Debt instruments in which the Fund may invest include, by way of example, (i) securities or other income-producing instruments issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies, instrumentalities or sponsored corporations (including inflation-protected securities); (ii) corporate obligations (including foreign hybrid securities); (iii) mortgage-backed securities (including commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities) and other asset-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), government mortgage pass-through securities, multiclass pass-through securities, private mortgage pass-through securities, stripped mortgage securities ( e.g. , interest-only and principal-only securities), and inverse floaters; (iv) collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs); (v) foreign securities (corporate and government), including emerging market securities; (vi) bank loans and assignments and other fixed and floating rate loans (including, among others, senior loans, second lien or other subordinated or unsecured fixed or floating rate loans, delayed funding loans and revolving credit facilities); (vii) municipal securities and other debt obligations issued by states, local governments, and government- sponsored entities, including their agencies, authorities, and instrumentalities; (viii) inflation-indexed bonds; (ix) convertible securities; (x) preferred securities; (xi) Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) securities; (xii) distressed and defaulted securities; (xiii) payment-in-kind bonds; (xiv) zero-coupon bonds; (xv) custodial receipts, cash and cash equivalents; (xvi) short-term, high quality investments, including, for example, commercial paper, bankers acceptances, certificates of deposit, bank time deposits, repurchase agreements, and investments in money market mutual funds or similar pooled investments; and (xvii) other instruments bearing fixed, floating, or variable interest rates of any maturity. The Fund may invest in any level of the capital structure of an issuer of mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities, including the equity or first loss tranche. The Sub-Adviser may invest Fund assets in other funds managed by the Sub-Adviser from time to time in order to obtain the Funds desired investment exposure. Investing in other funds managed by the Sub-Adviser involves potential conflicts of interest. For example, the Sub-Adviser or its affiliates may receive fees based on the amount of assets invested in such other investment vehicles. This and other factors may give the Sub-Adviser an economic or other incentive to make or retain an investment for the Fund in an affiliated investment vehicle in lieu of other investments that may also be appropriate for the Fund. To reduce this potential conflict of interest, the Sub-Adviser has agreed to reduce its advisory fee to the extent of advisory fees paid to the Sub-Adviser or its affiliates by other investment vehicles in respect of assets of the Fund invested in those vehicles. The Funds portfolio of debt instruments will normally have an overall weighted average effective duration of not less than one year or more than eight years. Duration is a measure of the expected life of a fixed-income instrument that is used to determine the sensitivity of a securitys price to changes in interest rates. Effective duration is a measure of the Funds portfolio duration adjusted for the anticipated effect of interest rate changes on bond and mortgage pre-payment rates. The longer a portfolios effective duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates. The effective duration of the Funds portfolio of debt instruments may vary materially from its target range, from time to time, and there is no assurance that the effective duration of the portfolio will always be within its target range. The Fund may invest in debt instruments of any credit quality, including those that are at the time of investment unrated or rated BB+ or lower by S&P or Ba1 or lower by Moodys or the equivalent by any other nationally recognized statistical rating organization. Corporate bonds and certain other fixed-income instruments rated below investment grade, or such instruments that are unrated and determined by the Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality, are high yield, high risk bonds, commonly known as junk bonds. Generally, lower-rated debt securities offer a higher yield than higher-rated debt securities of similar maturity but are subject to greater risk of loss of principal and interest than higher-rated securities of similar maturity. The Fund may invest up to 33 1/3% of its net assets in junk bonds, bank loans and assignments rated below investment grade or unrated but determined by the Sub-Adviser to be of comparable quality, and credit default swaps of companies in the high yield universe. The Sub-Adviser does not consider the term junk bonds to include any mortgage-backed securities or any other asset-backed securities, regardless of their credit rating or credit quality. The Fund may invest up to 5% of its net assets in defaulted corporate securities. Repayment of defaulted securities and obligations of distressed issuers (including insolvent issuers or issuers in payment or covenant default, in workout or restructuring or in bankruptcy or in solvency proceedings) is subject to significant uncertainties. The Fund may invest a portion of its net assets in inverse floater securities and interest-only and principal-only securities. An inverse floater is a type of instrument, which may be backed by or related to a mortgage-backed security, that bears a floating or variable interest rate that moves in the opposite direction to movements in interest rates generally or the interest rate on another security or index. Interest-only and principal-only securities may also be backed by or related to a mortgage-backed security. As a result, they are highly sensitive to actual or anticipated changes in prepayment rates on the underlying securities. The Fund may invest a portion of its net assets in debt instruments (including hybrid securities) issued or guaranteed by companies, financial institutions and government entities in emerging market countries. An emerging market country is a country that, at the time the Fund invests in the related fixed-income instruments, is classified as an emerging or developing economy by any supranational organization such as the United Nations, or related entities, or is considered an emerging market country for purposes of constructing a major emerging market securities index. The Fund may invest in other investment companies, including, for example, other open-end or closed-end investment companies, ETFs, and domestic or foreign private investment vehicles, including investment companies sponsored or managed by the Sub-Adviser and its affiliates. The Fund may engage in short sales, either to earn additional return or to hedge existing investments. In managing the Funds debt instruments, under normal market conditions, the Sub-Adviser uses a controlled risk approach. The techniques of this approach attempt to control the principal risk components of the fixed-income markets and may include consideration of: ? security selection within a given sector; ? relative performance of the various market sectors; ? the shape of the yield curve; and ? fluctuations in the overall level of interest rates. The Sub-Adviser also utilizes active asset allocation and monitors the duration of the Funds fixed-income securities to seek to mitigate the Funds exposure to interest rate risk.
Top holdings
As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $189.01M | 14.97% |
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $76.52M | 6.06% |
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $36.78M | 2.91% |
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $25.65M | 2.03% |
| PRPM Trust, Series 2025-NQM2, Class A1 | — | $14.15M | 1.12% |
| Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-AR2 Trust | — | $11.10M | 0.88% |
| JNL Government Money Market Fund | — | $10.89M | 0.86% |
| Octagon Investment Partners 20-R Ltd., Series 2019-4A, Class A1RR | — | $10.00M | 0.79% |
| OHA Credit Funding 16-R Ltd., Series 2023-16RA, Class A1 | OAKC | $9.99M | 0.79% |
| Sound Point CLO XXIII, Series 2019-2A, Class AR | SNDPT | $9.99M | 0.79% |
Portfolio moves
Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.
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Funds whose portfolios most overlap this one, by weight| Fund | Overlap | Net exp. |
|---|---|---|
| Doubleline Shiller Enhanced CAPE · DSEEX, DSENX, DDCPX | 66% | 0.50% |
| State Street(R) DoubleLine(R) Short Duration Total Return Tactical ETF · STOT | 50% | 0.45% |
| DoubleLine Low Duration Bond Fund · DBLSX, DLSNX, DDLDX | 48% | 0.39% |
Advisers
| Firm | Role |
|---|---|
| DoubleLine Capital LP | Sub-adviser |
| Jackson National Asset Management, LLC | Adviser |
Footnotes
- Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
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