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  • Fixed Income Adjustments: Reducing Duration & High Yield [00:02:03]

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  • Macro Drivers: The Battle of Mega Forces [00:00:33]
  • Equity Strategy: Upgrading Developed Markets [00:01:28]
  • Fixed Income Adjustments: Reducing Duration & High Yield [00:02:03]
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Upping developed stocks strategically | Market take | BlackRock

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  • Host: Devon Nathwani, portfolio strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute [00:00:14].

Macro Drivers: The Battle of Mega Forces []

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May 20, 2026
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00:00:33

Mega forces are actively reshaping portfolio opportunities and shifting where the firm takes growth risk [00:00:33]. Markets are being pulled in opposite directions by two competing forces: AI and geopolitical fragmentation [00:00:47]. Because it is impossible to determine which mega force will dominate over the long term, capital market assumptions anchor to multiple plausible scenarios [00:00:55].

  • The AI Productivity Scenario: AI could drive a productivity boom that supports economic growth, corporate earnings, and equity valuations [00:01:02].
  • The Fragmentation Stagflation Scenario: Geopolitical fragmentation could fuel stagflationary pressure, resulting in weaker equity valuations as investors demand more compensation for taking growth risk [00:01:11].
  • Current Baseline: The firm's starting point allocation represents its latest thinking on how these competing forces will evolve [00:01:21].

Equity Strategy: Upgrading Developed Markets [00:01:28]

The firm has upgraded developed market equities to an overweight position on its strategic horizon of 5 years or more [00:00:22].

  • Earnings Momentum Data: Earnings momentum for developed market stocks looks solid. Only three quarters since 1988 have recorded larger jumps in expected 24-month US equity earnings than the increases observed in each of the past two quarters [00:01:33].
  • Asset Class Distinctions: AI's impact is cutting across asset class labels. The technology sector now accounts for a larger share of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index than it does of the S&P 500 Index [00:01:41].
  • Emerging Markets Stance: This granular impact of mega forces underpins both the developed equity upgrade and the firm's existing overweight position in emerging market equities [00:01:54].

Fixed Income Adjustments: Reducing Duration & High Yield [00:02:03]

To execute the upgrade to developed market equities, the firm is reducing its exposure to fixed income assets [00:02:03].

  • High-Yield Credit Downgrade: The firm likes high yield within fixed income, but because portfolios are not built in asset class silos, high yield is downgraded on a strategic horizon. The firm explicitly prefers to take its growth risk through equities instead [00:02:10].
  • Government Bonds Cut: Developed market government bonds are reduced to an underweight position [00:02:22].
  • Duration Risk and Inflation: The reduction in government bonds supports a preference to hold less duration risk at the total portfolio level. Additionally, the firm views inflation as being more persistent than broader markets currently expect, maintaining a preference for inflation-linked government bonds over nominal ones [00:02:22].

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