Bondland has lately been abuzz over A blood feud raging between star bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach and the pre-eminent mutual-fund rating service, Morningstar.

The battle got attention in July when Morningstar classified Gundlach's $35 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond fund (ticker: DBLTX) as "not ratable" under its rating system. This despite the fact that Total Return, which traffics mostly in mortgage-backed securities, had outperformed every other bond fund in Morningstar's trillion-dollar intermediate-term bond fund...