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How To Invest With Clarity Through Market Volatility

1 month ago | blackrock.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback |Navin Saigal |Dylan Price

Key TakeawaysThere’s a lot of noise in markets today: Keeping an eye on big picture developments and avoiding the daily barrage of dramatic headlines is key for investing in this environment. Income Over Interest Rates: The current environment offers a unique opportunity to lock in high-quality yield with minimal duration risk, we continue to like optimizing for income.
Investing in 2025 Rieder Growth investing

Jan 10, 2025 | blackrock.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback |Navin Saigal |Dylan Price

Key TakeawaysCompounding Returns: Harness the power of compounding to accelerate portfolio growth, with a focus on income-oriented fixed income and growth equities. Economic Resilience: The U.S. economy’s stability, driven by services and infrastructure investments, supports a durable growth outlook. Strategic Fixed Income: Current market conditions offer opportunities to compound returns with low volatility through high-quality fixed income assets.
Investing around the election and debt issue

Oct 31, 2024 | blackrock.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback |Navin Saigal |Dylan Price

As we think about investing around a historic election, establishing what we know, what we need to know, and what we can count on is a useful foundation for navigating the uncertainty. The nature of markets today is one in which many prognosticators change their narrative with the release of each survey and data point – causing excessive moves in both directions that aren’t justified by the fundamentals of an incredibly stable economy.
Exploring Bitcoin as a unique diversifier

Sep 17, 2024 | blackrock.com | Robbie Mitchnick |Russell Brownback |Emily Goodman

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The Fixed Income opportunity for 2024

Dec 20, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, CIO, Global Fixed Income, BlackRockHighlightsIn the same way that a swimmer can make the biggest splash by jumping off of a higher diving board, so too fixed income asset returns can appear prospectively most attractive after a prolonged back up in rates. We think the current environment presents fixed income investors with a profoundly compelling opportunity.
Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

Oct 4, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, CIO, Global Fixed Income, and Russell Brownback, Head of Global Macro, Fixed Income, BlackRockGlobal central bank hiking cycles have dominated financial market headlines for the last 18 months, keeping many investors on the sidelines, hiding out in cash as inflation and the resulting rate hikes were serious headwinds to returns.
Investing in a Changing World: From Carburetors to Compilers

Aug 14, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, CIO, Global Fixed Income, and Russell Brownback, Head of Global Macro, Fixed Income, BlackRockFor the better part of the last century, the largest companies in the world were those that produced physical property â traditional transportation machines, the energy that powered them, or the capital that financed them.
Investors Rediscover the Importance of Getting Paid Back

Jun 25, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, CIO, Global Fixed Income, and Russell Brownback, Head of Global Macro, Fixed Income, BlackRockKey takeawaysThe exit from a decade of very low interest rates, via the most aggressive hiking cycle since 1980 has laid bare the distorted financing incentives that became entrenched in the years between the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and the end of pandemic-era monetary policies in 2022.
Rotation to Duration: Seeking a More Resilient Portfolio

Jun 20, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock Key takeaways The potential for a Fed pause presents an opportunity for investors to consider adding duration back into their portfolios In this market regime, we believe duration serves well as hedge and equity diversifier Advisors who were underweight bonds in their traditional 60/40 portfolios should consider bringing bonds back to benchmark level or an overweight Navigating Today's Environment It's Just Math...
It’s Time to Start Playing Investment “Small Ball” in Portfolios

May 31, 2023 | advisoranalyst.com | Rick Rieder |Russell Brownback

by Rick Rieder, CIO, Global Fixed Income, and Russell Brownback, Head of Global Macro, Fixed Income, BlackRockKey takeawaysThe idea of bunting (“small ball”) in baseball is that you can, somewhat counterintuitively, build a game-winning strategy through conservative positioning.