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Shifting Gears - Moving to a Goals-Based Fixed Income Strategy
For traditional fixed income investors, much of the last 40 years have been a relatively enjoyable ride. This benefit has slowly evaporated over the past 10 years, as rates have plunged to near zero and now extreme market turmoil from the COVID-19 pandemic has put investors at a crossroads: high-quality, traditional fixed income will always be a crucial bedrock for investment portfolios but emerging from this crisis with extremely low – or even negative – government bond rates means this “insurance” might become more expensive. It’s no wonder, then, that many investors are viewing the fixed income implications of the COVID-19 crisis as existential.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Model Specialists Coverage Map
Get in touch with a model specialist to learn how incorporating models, as well as technology, into your practice can help make things more transparent and uncover key areas your clients want to discuss, like risk.
Client Experience
Which Advisors Had A Smoother Ride During COVID
Advisors should treat the pandemic as a turning point, making strategic changes to add the most value for what clients need today and do more with less.
Client Experience
Enhance Client Relationships with Tech
The end of the year is an ideal time to check in with clients to gauge their financial and emotional wellbeing. Especially in the current environment, your clients may want reassurance that they’ll be okay.
Tax Management
2021 Financial Planning Limits and Tax Rate Schedules
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Addressing the complexities of financial planning can be difficult.
Portfolio Construction Insights
[Presentation] How to Build Wealth with a Behavioral Approach to Portfolio Construction | Webinar 2
2020 has been an unprecedented and emotionally-charged ride—the most difficult for advisors in over a decade.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Portfolio Diagnostics Report: Shifting Gears
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For traditional fixed income investors, much of the last 40 years have been a relatively enjoyable ride; the 1980s began with double-digit interest rates that have steadily fallen, creating large amounts of bond return and income as well as crisis management along the way. Instead of investors paying a premium for portfolio crisis management, traditional fixed income paid investors that premium.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Bond ETFs: Financial Advisors Drive Use With Specialized Applications
BlackRock sponsors this Cerulli Associates report that asks 378 financial advisors about their use of bond ETFs.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Building Better Benchmarks
The BlackRock Portfolio Solutions team explores benchmarks and how to build them appropriately.