Prepare, Donât Predict: Building Resilient Portfolios with Private Credit
For decades, investors climbed the 60/40 ladder with confidence. Now, every step feels less steady. High inflation that refuses to budge, interest rates that wonât come down anytime soon, and the growing correlation between stocks and bonds...
The surprising way the bond market matters for stocks
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock Stocks are expensive by most measures. Russ discusses why the bond market…
November 14, 2017
High yieldâs diminishing appeal
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock High yield bonds have been investor favorite the last year and a…
November 1, 2017
Energy and financials: The value within value
by Russ Koesterich, Chief Investment Strategist, Blackrock Investments Value stocks have started to show signs of life. Russ…
October 17, 2017
Value: Dead or just slumbering?
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock alue stocks have largely sat out the broader market rallies this year.…
August 30, 2017
Gold shines as Washington stumbles
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock Russ discusses the trend behind the surprising gold rally this year, and…
August 27, 2017
Is high yield today more resilient to oil volatility? Not at any price
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock High yield is not responding to the fall in oil prices like…
August 2, 2017
Donât fear the commodity slumpâyet
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock So far it has been a great yearâat least for paper assets.…
July 24, 2017
Whatâs behind the tech selloff?
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Blackrock Russ discusses why many technology stocks have tumbled recently, without any obvious…
June 18, 2017
International stocks: Popular but not too popular
by Richard Turnill, BlackRock Global Chief Investment Strategist, Blackrock Emerging market and European equities are becoming consensus trades,…
June 6, 2017
Reflation (as we define it) has room to run
by Jean Boivin, PhD, Head of Economic and Markets Research at the BlackRock Investment Institute Reflation means different…
May 28, 2017
Keep your eyes on the credit markets, not Washington
With political uncertainty on the rise in D.C., will market volatility spike? Russ discusses why the economy and…
May 25, 2017
What I learned at the Milken Conference
What I learned at the Milken Conference by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, Global Asset Allocation Team, Blackrock Russ…
May 10, 2017