Fixed Income Strategies

Short Duration

• Focus on capital preservation, liquidity and yield
• Clearly defined risk parameters
• Multi-sector diversification
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Overview

  • 01

    BlackRock’s Short Duration strategies employ a fundamental, diversified and relative-value approach focused solely on the front end of the yield curve. The team seeks to strategically allocate across key sources of alpha including macro strategies, sector allocation and security selection.

  • 02

    Our Short Duration platform aims to allow investors to find opportunities on the front end of the curve by offering dedicated separate accounts with customizable guidelines ranging from enhanced cash to total return oriented short duration, in addition to commingled offerings and registered strategies.

  • 03

    The investment team focuses on sourcing bonds, analyzing credit curves, selecting individual securities, and implementing relative value decisions for our short duration portfolios.

Portfolio managers

Akiva Dickstein
Co-Head of Customized Multi-Sector Portfolios and co-Head of Global Inflation Linked Portfolios
Scott Maclellan
Scott Maclellan
Managing Director, Global Fixed Income Group

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