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Blackrock Recommends Lowering Bond Duration Amid 'Hypnotized' Markets

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Mark Melin
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Blackrock’s Chief Investment Officer for Fundamental Fixed Income Rick Rieder thinks that “markets are hypnotized” and, using an old Wayne Gretzky hockey expression, investors need to go “where the puck is headed.”

Speaking at a June 18 presentation, the slides of which were reviewed by ValueWalk, Rieder noted a historic benchmark at this unique point in time as he found the open area in the high slot, unnoticed to the side of the net.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.