Why the Euro High-Yield Market May Be Worth the Risk
Meanwhile, the amount of distressed debt is small and is concentrated in the low single B/CCC part of the market, so we don’t expect it to become a systemic concern. For the
What’s in Your Evergreen Private Equity Strategy?
Given the dispersion of returns in private equity between the best and worst performing managers, manager selection is critical. Top-performing managers have historically earned 14% higher returns than bottom quartile performers. However,
Beyond the Trump Trade: US Equity Investing in a New Policy Era
Subsidies provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022—a key policy move of President Joe Biden—are likely to be targeted by Trump. IRA incentives for electric vehicles (EV) and renewable energy
Mapping Out the 2025 Investment Landscape Across Asset Classes
Global markets will face powerful disruptive forces next year. How can investors prepare in fixed-income, equity and alternative investment strategies? Investors are grappling with a multidimensional set of challenges as we turn
Multi-Asset Income 2025 Outlook: Broader Is Better
Investment-grade bonds are also appealing from a risk management perspective, in our view. While not our base case, a hard landing scenario should help investment-grade bonds perform strongly, with a fall in
How to Invest in Emerging Market Equities as New US Policies Bite
Plenty of Manufacturing Will Stay Put in EM Trump’s policies are designed to bring manufacturing back to the US. Yet whatever incentives may be provided to US companies, we think it’s unrealistic
Merger Arbitrage: The Stars Could Be Aligning
Is an M&A boom brewing? There’s a shift underway in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market. The headwinds of rising rates, price volatility and increased global regulatory scrutiny appear to be fading—and
US Equities: Perspectives on Recent Volatility
It’s been a rough start to the year for US equity investors. Yet the volatility hasn’t been too far out of the ordinary in historical context. The S&P 500 fell by 3.3%
Systematic investing | BlackRock Investment Trusts
Systematic investment process The world is more data-driven than ever before. Our systematic process leverages vast sets of data, both traditional and alternative, to provide investment insights faster, at greater scale and
US Equities: Perspectives on Recent Volatility
It’s been a rough start to the year for US equity investors. Yet the volatility hasn’t been too far out of the ordinary in historical context. The S&P 500 fell by 3.3%
US Economic Forecast Q1 2025
Scenarios Baseline (50%)2: Our baseline scenario aims to represent a “middle of the road” outcome. It is our assessment of the likely trajectory of the economy in the absence of major upside