Description
The Strategic Income Fund's strategies strive to provide consistent absolute positive annual returns uncorrelated to cyclical market downturns. The Fund's three primary components are:

Seek to achieve at least 200 basis points of excess return to the risk-free rate as measured by 90-day T-bills to realize a high degree of positive returns each year.
Will strive to deliver consistent positive returns uncorrelated to negative market cycles.
Exploit all of the different markets and variety of financial instruments available in the marketplace.

Management Team

All of MetWest's mutual funds and investment strategies are team-managed with a generalist/specialist structure. The Strategic Income Fund team has four managers:

Tad Rivelle Joined MetWest: 1996 Education: Yale (B.S.), USC (M.S.), UCLA (M.B.A.)	Steve Kane, CFA Joined MetWest: 1996 Education: UC, Berkeley (B.S.), University of Chicago (M.B.A.)

Laird Landmann Joined MetWest: 1996 Education: Dartmouth (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.B.A.)	David Lippman Joined MetWest: 2001 Education: Drew University (B.A.), Hofstra University (J.D.)