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Key Takeaways
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Stable income
Bonds can provide a predictable stream of income through regular coupon payments. Across various segments, from government to corporate debt, yields have become more attractive offering meaningful income potential.
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Capital preservation
Fixed income is often used to help preserve capital, especially in uncertain or volatile market environments. High-quality bonds tend to hold their value and may even benefit when interest rates decline.
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Diversification
Adding fixed income to a portfolio can help reduce overall volatility. Historically bonds have shown low correlation with equities providing balance during periods of market stress.
Risk: Diversification and asset allocation may not fully protect you from market risk.
Global Fixed Income Outlook
What’s next for markets? Our key investment managers and CIOs evaluate regional opportunities and share their insights on the main themes driving the market.
Why BlackRock for fixed income?
BlackRock offers a comprehensive fixed income platform, managing assets across the entire fixed income spectrum – from public to private, fundamental & systematic, active & index – to help deliver better outcomes, convenience, value, and transparency for our clients.
Risk: While proprietary technology platforms may help manage risk, investment risk cannot be fully eliminated.
Fixed income investing solutions
BlackRock offers one of the largest and most diverse array of fixed income solutions, across our fundamental, systematic and credit platforms. Our Aladdin® platform, dedicated team and proprietary technology infrastructure enable bespoke client engagements and the delivery of solutions to institutions around the world.
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BlackRock is a leader in fundamental fixed income. With a focus on alpha generation and risk management, the team uses top-down views from lead portfolio managers and bottoms-up expertise from our sector specialists to drive consistent alpha. The breadth and depth of our platform puts us in a strong position to deliver returns regardless of macroeconomic regime, volatility or interest rate environment.
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Systematic fixed income strategies employ differentiated data-driven insights backed by disciplined risk management that seeks to deliver differentiated portfolio outcomes to investors.
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BlackRock brings decades of experience in liability-driven investing. Designing and executing investment strategies to reflect specific liability hedging objectives is a core part of our success in managing assets for pension, insurance and other institutional clients.
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BlackRock fixed income index funds platform has provided clients with beta exposure across a broad range of sectors and credit qualities. Investors employ index investing strategies to help achieve a variety of goals including reducing portfolio volatility, creating liquidity sleeves and reducing plan investment costs.
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With more than 2,400 iShares fixed income ETFs available globally, investors today have greater choice and flexibility than ever before. By investing in these solutions, you gain access to BlackRock’s deep fixed income expertise—helping you build stronger, more resilient portfolios.
Whether index-based or actively managed, iShares fixed income ETFs represent powerful investment technology, delivering transparency, access, liquidity, and efficiency to investors worldwide.
I think we're in a pretty special period. I think this is the golden age of fixed income.
Think about for years, for decades, we're at very low interest rates and credit quality was a question. Companies were at risk and you had volatility. Now we went through a very low interest rate period. Companies trimmed out their debt.
Individuals trimmed out their debt. So the credit quality is as good as it's ever been.
But because of service level inflation still being high. The fed is lagging in terms of bringing down interest rates. So today you're able to capture yields that you haven't seen in decades. I think five years from now, three years from now, two years from now, people are going to look back and say, wow, that was an attractive time. We got an awful lot of yield. Almost like equity, like returns or yield availability.
And you're not taking the risk. That's a pretty, pretty good time to be in fixed income.
Key opportunity in bonds: income is back
Rick Rieder, Senior Managing Director, BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team, gives an update on why he thinks the greatest opportunity right now is income.
Meet our fixed income leadership team
Rick Rieder
Senior Managing Director, CIO of Global Fixed Income, Head of Fundamental Fixed Income, Head of Global Allocation Investment Team
Tom Parker
Chief Investment Officer, Systematic Fixed Income
Alex Claringbull
Managing Director, Global Head of Indexed Fixed Income & LDI
James Turner
Managing Director, Co-Head of European Fundamental Fixed Income
Simon Blundell
Managing Director, Co-Head of European Fundamental Fixed Income
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