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Improve your income potential with a tactical, unconstrained strategy that sources opportunities across geographies and asset classes. BlackRock Multi-Asset Income Fund takes a risk-first approach while seeking to deliver a consistently attractive yield.
Performance and positioning update
- Stocks and bonds rallied into year-end driven by soft-landing optimism and improving economic sentiment. The fund delivered a positive return.
- We added exposure to dividend growth equities and high yield bonds during the month, modestly increasing risk to seek to capitalize upon the improving risk sentiment driven by relatively dovish Fed posturing at the latest Federal Open Market Committee. The growth, jobs, and inflation backdrop likely allow the Fed to cut rates in 2024, although current expectations may be too aggressive, in our opinion.
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Stock and bond values fluctuate in price so the value of your investment can go down depending on market conditions.
International investing involves risks, including risks related to foreign currency, limited liquidity, less government regulation and the possibility of substantial volatility due to adverse political, economic or other developments. These risks often are heightened for investments in emerging/ developing markets or in concentrations of single countries.
Fixed income risks include interest-rate and credit risk. Typically, when interest rates rise, there is a corresponding decline in bond values. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the bond issuer will not be able to make principal and interest payments.
Non-diversification of investments means that more assets are potentially invested in fewer securities than if investments were diversified, so risk is increased because each investment has a greater effect on performance.
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