05/19/2026
DoubleLine CEO-CIO Jeffrey Gundlach joins the panel “Banks, Private Credit, and the Future of Risk” at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, May 6, moderated by Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker. (This is a highlight video of Mr. Gundlach’s appearance. The full video of the panel discussion and other panels is available on the Global Conference Website found here: https://milkeninstitute.org/events/gl...) Mr. Gundlach draws parallels to past market booms — the dot-com era, the CDO market and the mortgage crisis – arguing that private credit is experiencing the same Wild West dynamic, where a flood of fast money overwhelms underwriting discipline and erodes trust. He points to mounting evidence of opacity and mismarking, including the same loan being valued at 95 by one manager and 8 by another within the same institutional portfolio, and calls the industry Lake Wobegon on steroids – where every firm claims to be top decile while losses quietly accumulate.
Mr. Gundlach is equally critical of the three pillars used to sell private credit – lower volatility, higher historical returns and better sleep – dismissing all three as variations of the same “laundered volatility” argument. He reserves particular scorn for the use of shadow credit rating agencies to manufacture investment grade (IG) ratings on below-IG loans, calling it “financial alchemy.” On the redemption cycle, Mr. Gundlach expects requests to grow significantly heading into the “Ides of June,” noting that when investors can’t get out, it only makes them want out more. He closes by noting that sovereign wealth funds outside the U.S. are increasingly seeking noncorporate credit diversification, while U.S. institutional investors appear largely unfazed for now – leaving retail as the most exposed and least informed cohort in the unwind ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3MOmQsPxk
DoubleLine CEO-CIO Jeffrey Gundlach joins the panel “Banks, Private Credit, and the Future of Risk” at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hill...