Diversify your portfolio with multi-asset solutions

Hi, I'm Justin Christofel, Head of the Multi-Asset Income team here at BlackRock. 

The big question that clients are asking me today is, “How do multi-asset strategies weather market volatility?”

A multi-asset approach has the dual benefit of being able to invest across a broad global opportunity set, while also being able to dynamically adjust its asset allocation as the opportunity set and risk landscape evolves.

This includes emphasizing quality dividend payers, shifting more exposure into non-U.S. equities, staying cautious on long-term interest rates, and leaning into select credit exposures where yields are relatively more attractive.

Ultimately, this market environment can leave investors feeling paralyzed. However, we think a diversified opportunity set and willingness to adapt multi-asset investors the right toolkit to navigate today's market.

Moreover, having a portfolio that derives a greater portion of the total return from income may insulate investors from the harshest price swings that may be a feature of the investment landscape this year.

The big question that our clients in Asia Pacific are asking us today is how do I prepare my portfolio in a robust and resilient manner so that the portfolio is ready to maneuver and navigate today's fast changing markets?

Hi, I'm Daniel Caderas . I'm a multi-asset investor, and I lead the Global Tactical Asset Allocation team here at BlackRock.

What worked in the past potentially, where you just combine stocks and bonds in a portfolio and they're largely offset by each other, in particular, during periods of stress and volatility. Those times are gone.

We believe as an investor these days you want to be flexible, you want to be nimble. You also want to incorporate the fact that the world is changing fast, and you want to have a more short-term view.

We are a team which invests in a more tactical manner, which means we focus on the short-term to mid-term time horizon. We do this across a large opportunity set, and that allows us to be flexible in terms of going anywhere. So wherever we believe there's dislocations, discrepancies, wherever the market tends to overreact or underreact, that's where we can position ourselves.