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It’s time to re-think your fixed income allocation

After decades of historically low yields, investors have been underweight duration and many took on more risk to reach return objectives. With the move higher in rates, fixed income can again provide ballast for a portfolio and investors are revisiting underweights. It’s time to re-assess what’s inside your fixed income allocation.

High risk-adjusted alpha in all market conditions

Analysing and capturing return opportunities takes skill, insight, and experience. We have all three. Our comprehensive fixed income platform has been innovating and anticipating changing client needs for over three decades.

$2.8
$2.8 trillion USD Fixed income assets under management.1
800
800+ investors2 partnered with to help solve their portfolio challenges
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24-hour global trading platform leverages local knowledge and sector expertise

1 Source: BlackRock 2023 annual Report. BlackRock assets are as of 31 December 2023. 
2 Source: BlackRock Portfolio Analysis and Solutions, from January 2018 – May 2021.

A whole portfolio approach

With the hunt for income more challenging than ever, investors need to consider a broad range of opportunities. Our whole portfolio approach involves blending active and index strategies – with a focus on the front end of the yield curve.

Explore our main fixed income investment strategies

Fixed Income Risks: Two main risks related to fixed income investing are interest rate risk and credit risk. Typically, when interest rates rise, there is a corresponding decline in the market value of bonds. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the issuer of the bond will not be able to repay the principal and make interest payments.

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Fundamental investing at BlackRock

We leverage a rigorous fundamentally-driven approach that seeks to employ the best ideas across our BlackRock fixed income platform.

Our team strategically allocates between the three alpha sources: top-down sector allocation, bottom-up security selection, and macro duration/yield curve positioning.