LIVE: Jeff Gundlach speaks on the state of markets and the economy

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LIVE: Jeff Gundlach speaks on the state of markets and the economy

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DoubleLine Funds

DoubleLine Capital Founder Jeff Gundlach is holding his quarterly webcast on global markets and the economy.

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It's titled "Wack-O-Season."

In his second-quarter webcast in June, Gundlach advised short-term stock traders to raise cash, and warned that low volatility should not be seen as a new template for the market.

A little over a month later, he told Reuters that he had bought S&P 500 put options in a bet that volatility would rise. The trade, he said, was "like free money." Volatility spiked briefly early in August but has remained near historic lows.

Gundlach's flagship fund has also been in the news. The Wall Street Journal reported in August that assets under management at DoubleLine's Total Return Bond Fund fell 13% from their peak last September to $54 billion at the end of July.

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Gundlach, who recently joined Twitter as @TruthGundlach, criticized the story before it was published. He later told Bloomberg he was reducing positions in the firm's funds to invest in higher-quality credit assets, which could be costly to performance in the short term.

More to come ...