BlackRock urges credit investors to look beyond US junk

BlackRock’s global fixed income CIO Rick Rieder says US high-yield risk premiums are not wide enough to entice investors, and that there are other areas of credit to consider allocating to. 
BlackRock’s global fixed-income chief investment officer Rick Rieder | Photo: Jerry Goldberg/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
BlackRock’s global fixed-income chief investment officer Rick Rieder | Photo: Jerry Goldberg/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
By Olivia Raimonde and Katie Greifeld // Bloomberg

“Part of the argument against high yield this year has been the spread’s not interesting at all,” said Rieder, BlackRock’s global fixed income chief investment officer, on Bloomberg Television Monday. “You can get yield in a bunch of other places,” he added. 

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