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Fixed Income

Systematic Fixed Income

Our systematic fixed income team employs data-driven insights backed by cutting-edge technology and deep human expertise to deliver differentiated portfolio outcomes to investors. We believe our approach offers clients a closer look at what lies beneath the surface of debt and equity markets, providing clarity amid market complexity.

A systematic approach to fixed income

Differentiated insights
We take fundamental insights and quantitatively test and validate them through a scientific process before implementing them within portfolios.
Systematic construction
We build high breadth portfolios using a disciplined, methodical process with a distinct focus on taking compensated risks.
Targeted outcomes
We seek to deliver strategies with a clear understanding and delineation between alpha and beta return sources.
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Innovation is at the heart of our investment platform, with our strategies supported by the scale and technology backbone of BlackRock.

Tom Parker
CIO of Systematic Fixed Income

Our investment philosophy

Our mission is to generate consistent, high-quality outcomes through a systematic process that validates fundamentally oriented market insights with quantitative research.

 

Our systematic approach to fixed income offers several key benefits for clients:

 

Minimal biases

Insights with minimal bias are applied across securities as models improve and are enhanced with more data over time.

 
Wide portfolio breadth

Unlimited by the constraints of human attention and processing capability, we can monitor thousands of changes in metrics, prices and market conditions daily.


Defensive orientation

Systematic strategies tend to reduce downside portfolio risk, offering defense return characteristics during equity market downturns.

Leadership

Raffaele Savi
Global Head of BlackRock Systematic Investing and Co-CIO of Systematic Equities
Read Raffaele Savi's biography
Tom Parker
Chief Investment Officer, Systematic Fixed Income
Read Tom Parker’s biography

Spotlight strategies

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    Enhanced

    Enhanced building blocks seek to deliver consistent, high information ratio alpha by combining security selection insights with optimized portfolio construction.

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    Liquid alternatives

    Our investment decisions use multiple, independent and risk management alpha models, seeking enhanced risk-adjusted returns with low correlations to broad asset classes.

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    Hedge funds

    Seek to uncover alpha using relative value, directional and security selection strategies, across markets, with return profiles independent of traditional market betas.

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