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Financial cracks show: what to do now

This week’s market commentary calls out three clear takeaways for portfolios as financial cracks from the most rapid hiking cycle since the early 1980s start to emerge: First, we stay underweight equities and downgrade credit to neutral. Second, we overweight very short-term government paper for income. And third, we like emerging market assets.
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Larry Fink: I really believe the transformation of leadership, the transformation of businesses is about more and more leaders in their focusing on things about their stakeholders. They're connecting with their employees deeper and broader, they’re connecting with the client broader and they're certainly trying to be more connected to their society. So much of that is in this letter it is about moving forward on better disclosure, more complete disclosure, especially in that zero climate change. And investing is something that is a powerful economic result. As we move towards a more sustainable world it's going to create great jobs, is going to create a you know a great environment, and so we should not be afraid of it we should all be embracing it and finding ways that we could you know be a part of that and I think this is one of the big messages in the 2021 letter.

Larry Fink on our sustainable future

Larry Fink, BlackRock’s Chairman and CEO, discusses how the energy transition, including the widespread adoption of net zero, will fundamentally reshape the global economy.

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1 WRI (May 2020), Water: mapping, measuring and mitigating global water challenges.
2During stressed markets, iShares UCITS fixed income ETFs traded an average of US $17.5B (21 Feb - 20 Mar 2020), more than twice the 2019 weekly average of $7.8B. All amounts in $USD.

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