Market insights

Markets got off to a rocky start in 2022. Portfolio manager Michael Fredericks considers what this might mean for investors seeking income as the year progresses.

Market update from BlackRock's municipal bond team.

Impact investing in public equities can provide exposure to disruptive innovation and structural growth opportunities that are often overlooked. Learn more.

For the first time in decades, investors need to focus on the impact of higher inflation. Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD, Portfolio Manager discusses how.

It is time to rebalance the lopsided 60/40 portfolio with alternative sources of diversification and return. Learn how long-short strategies improve portfolios.

Rick Rieder and team identify 11 themes that could drive returns in 2022, as the greatest monetary experiment since the advent of fiat currency enters its next phase.

What might equity investors expect in 2022? Active stock picker Tony DeSpirito reviews the potential positives and impediments in his Q1 market outlook.

The wage and wealth gap for women is well known, and the retirement savings gap is just as pronounced, especially since it spans across racial and income lines. Understanding the factors that perpetuate this gap could help lead to solutions.

BlackRock managing director and portfolio manager Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD discusses the recent volatility and how to hedge the risk it will continue.

The path for further gains in risk assets looks to have narrowed after a long run higher, but we reaffirm our tactical pro-risk stance.

Supply chain issues are contributing to higher prices and delayed deliver times. Two Fundamental Equities stock pickers offer four key investment insights.

The closed-end fund market has been strong in 2021, but some CEFs still trade at potentially attractive discounts

Change brings investment opportunity ― and change is happening fast in the consumer space. Active investor Sophie Steel identifies three trends to watch.

Rick Rieder and team examine the parallels, or lack of them, between the economy, markets and policy of the 1970s and today.

BlackRock Portfolio Manager, Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD discusses his preference for the US dollar over a long Treasury hedge in the current markets.

What is impacting investing? How is it different from ESG? Equity investor Eric Rice answers these questions and more in this one-minute read.

Portfolio manager Michael Fredericks reflects on markets and investing to generate income while managing risk over the last decade.

BlackRock bond experts reveal the top themes driving our fixed income outlook. Learn the latest key risks and opportunities in today’s bond market.

As the “green” transition plays out, we take a nuanced approach to investing in energy, with opportunities and risks varying over different time horizons.

BlackRock’s systematic investment experts discuss the potential link between hiring more veterans and achieving organizational excellence.

Recent research provides insight into the ways debt unequally burdens workers, and even impacts the ways people think about spending once they retire.

BlackRock portfolio manager Russ Koesterich, CFA discusses the headwinds gold is facing and alternative hedges to consider in current markets.

This Halloween season, Rick Rieder and team shed light on today’s market ghosts, ghouls and goblins and how to build a resilient investment portfolio around them.

BlackRock portfolio manager Russ Koesterich, CFA discusses why earnings trumped rates as the catalyst for September’s poor equity performance. Read more now.

Investing can be as much an emotional as an intellectual pursuit. A professional investor and a behavioral finance expert discuss how to navigate the two.

Countries have a stake in avoiding mounting climate risk, but emerging markets will play a key role in the net-zero transition. Read our Global insights.

Company earnings have exceeded expectations. That has some worried about an inevitable slowdown. U.S. equity CIO Tony DeSpirito offers some perspective.

While much of the conversation has centered around amassing a nest egg, it’s important to look at what else can be done to improve retirement readiness.

We evaluated if a more finely-tuned approach to LifePath’s fixed income allocations could help achieve the objective of greater lifetime consumption over a participants’ lifecycle. Our research findings indicate the answer is yes.

Rick Rieder and team examine the myriad investment opportunities that are available in an environment dominated by negative real interest rates.

In this market insight piece, BlackRock portfolio manager Russ Koesterich discusses how calmer bond markets have actually benefited equities.

Retiring participants may need more help transitioning into a decumulation mindset. Find out why.

Retirement income solutions need to be part of a culture shift that overcomes participant bias in order to succeed. Here's how.

BlackRock’s systematic bond experts decode the markets to reveal why real rates continue to trend negative and what it means for your bond portfolio.

Rick Rieder and team argue that there are times in fixed income markets when some things seem out-of-whack, making it critical to be truly ‘vested’ in your investing.

Read the latest market insights to see where BlackRock's Multi-Asset Income team sees potential risks and opportunities across global income assets.

BlackRock Investment Institute members recommend their favorite books – across topics and genres – for your reading during this summer and beyond.

With traditional hedges not working as effectively, portfolio manager Russ Koesterich discusses how the dollar may serve in that role.

Impact investing is gaining in popularity. BlackRock’s Eric Rice met with the “Father of Impact Investing” to discuss how it is redefining risk and reward.

Closed-end funds are often overlooked, but can offer access to high growth private markets in a investor friendly structure with daily liquidity.

Equities, especially cyclical stocks, have had a strong run in the first half of 2021. What’s next? Tony DeSpirito addresses three key questions for Q3.

Markets enjoy distilling information in the form of an emoji/tweet, but Rick Rieder and team argue that simple headlines can conceal more than they reveal.

Russ Koesterich, portfolio manager of the Global Allocation Fund, discusses why low vol and quality stocks are exhibiting surprisingly strong performance.

Finding the best new investment opportunities as the recovery rolls on is both a challenge and source of excitement for active stock investor James Bristow.

BlackRock's DC Pulse survey provides timely insights into the minds of participants, retirees and plan sponsors to help build and inform a better retirement.

Russ Koesterich, portfolio manager of the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund, discusses interest rate volatility and how to insulate the portfolio against it.

Inflation’s role can be misinterpreted and therefore policy seeking to achieve positive ends can ironically become the means by which those ends are undone.

The view by many is that ESG investing is concessionary. Our history shows that isn’t true and that unique ESG data can be predictors of company results.

Rick Rieder and team argue that investors need to balance income with valuation as the overarching force shaping markets evolves from pandemic to policy.

In times of rapid change, companies with an innovative edge can be primed for outperformance. Active stock investor Will Broadbent reviews the opportunity.