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DoubleLine Opportunistic Credit Fund

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Section 16

Inception Date: 1-26-12

Objective
The Fund’s investment objective is to seek high total investment return by providing a high level of current income and the potential for capital appreciation. The Fund cannot assure you that it will achieve its investment objective.

Philosophy
The Fund may invest in debt securities and income-producing investments of any kind, including, without limitation, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securitites, U.S Government securities, corporate debt, international sovereign debt, and short-term investments. The Fund’s investment adviser, DoubleLine Capital LP allocated the Fund’s assets among market sectors, and among investments within those sectors, in an attempt to construct a portfolio providing a high level of current income and the potential for capital appreciation consistent with what DoubleLine considers an appropriate level of risk in light of market conditions prevailing at the time.

 

Figures quoted represent past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Investment return, principal value, and yields of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted.

Because DoubleLine Opportunistic Credit Fund (“DBL” or the “Fund”) is newly organized, its shares have little or no history of public trading. Shares of closed-end investment companies (“CEF”) frequently trade at a discount to their net asset value, which may increase investors’ risk of loss. This risk may be greater for investors expecting to sell their shares in a relatively short period after completion of the public offering.

DBL is a non-diversified designed primarily as a long-term investment and not as a trading tool. The Fund should not constitute a complete investment program. Due to the uncertainty in all investments, there can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objectives. Investing in the Fund involves risks, including the risk that you may receive little or no return on your investment or that you may lose part or all of your investment. The values of securities held by the Fund may move up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. Your common shares (“Common Shares”) at any point in time may be worth less than your original investment, even after taking into account any reinvestment of dividends and distributions. Closed-end funds do not continuously offer shares for sale as open-end mutual funds do. The shares trade on a secondary market after the initial public offering. Investors who wish to buy or sell fund shares of a CEF need to place orders through an intermediary, or broker, who will buy or sell fund shares on the stock exchange in a process identical to the purchase or sale of any other listed stock. A closed-end fund is not required to buy its shares back from investors upon request. The share price of a closed-end fund is based on the market value. Additional risks and uncertainties may also adversely affect and impair the Fund. This Web site is for information purposes only and is not intended as a solicitation to sell or buy any security.

1 The distribution yield is calculated by annualizing the last monthly distribution and then dividing by the period ending NAV or market price.

Per IRS requirements, when a fund earns more than its dividend it must pay a special income distribution prior to year-end in order to avoid excise and federal income tax penalties at the fund level. Funds must distribute at least 98% of calendar year ordinary income and at least 98% of their fiscal year capital gains to avoid an excise tax on the undistributed portion above the 2% allowable cushion. Such distributions are typically made up of income derived from across a broad representation of fund holdings.

Performance results are extremely short term, and may not provide an adequate basis for evaluating a fund's performance over varying market conditions or economic cycles. Unusual investment returns may be a result of a fund's recent inception, existing market and economic conditions and the increased potential of a small number of portfolio holdings affecting fund performance due to the smaller asset size.

Foreign investments may contain more risk due to the inherent risks associated with changing political climates, foreign market instability and foreign currency fluctuations. Risks of international investing are magnified in emerging or developing markets.

Funds that concentrate their investments in a single industry or a limited number of industries or sector may face increased risk of price fluctuation over more diversified funds due to adverse developments within that industry or sector.

Non-diversified funds may face increased risk of price fluctuation over more diversified funds due to adverse developments within certain sectors.

The Fund is subject to mortgage-backed securities risk: the risk that borrowers may default on their mortgage obligations or the guarantees underlying the mortgage-backed securities will default or otherwise fail and that, during periods of falling interest rates, mortgage-backed securities will be called or prepaid, which may result in the Fund having to reinvest proceeds in other investments at a lower interest rate. During periods of rising interest rates, the average life of a mortgage-backed security may extend, which may lock in a below-market interest rate, increase the security’s duration, and reduce the value of the security. Enforcing rights against the underlying assets or collateral may be difficult, or the underlying assets or collateral may be insufficient if the issuer defaults. The values of certain types of mortgage-backed securities, such as inverse floaters and interest-only and principal-only securities, may be extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates and prepayment rates.

Derivatives involve additional risks including interest rate risk, credit risk, the risk of improper valuation and the risk of non-correlation to the relevant instruments they are designed to hedge or to closely track.

High yield, lower-rated bonds may contain more risk due to the increased possibility of default.

The return of principal is not guaranteed due to fluctuation in the Fund's NAV caused by changes in the price of individual bonds held by the Fund and the buying and selling of bonds by the Fund. Bond funds have the same inflation, interest rate and credit risks as individual bonds. Generally, the value of bond funds rises when prevailing interest rates fall, and falls when interest rates rise.

Mutual funds are long-term investments. Changes shown from day-to-day are extremely short-term. Prices are historical and cannot guarantee comparable future results.