BMED News and Press, BLACKROCK ETF TRUS From 06/11/21

From a consumer perspective, the consumer is actually now demanding a focus on environmental, social, governance factors. If public expectations for inflation do rise, that is going to be a change from years past. There’s going to be an opportunity to make medical progress ...

Historic efforts to develop COVID-19 vaccines have had two huge effects on the industry. Efforts to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines to help reduce costs for emerging markets are also stuck. Since healthcare is an industry that has a profound impact on society, there’s a ...

Opportunities and risks in the healthcare sector. The next big areas of innovation in healthcare. Extreme winners and losers in the healthcare sector. For further details see: Building A Healthy Portfolio: Spotlight On Healthcare

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

We still favor above-benchmark strategic allocations to China exposures, and see the recent weakness in Chinese markets offering an attractive entry point. The Federal Reserve made clear its commitment to be well "behind the curve" on inflation and wait to see it to materialize. I...

If two strategies or portfolios are correlated highly enough (higher than 0.84), then their types of risk overlap sufficiently to be part of the same asset class or to serve the same strategic purpose in a portfolio. The demand for acute care has an inelastic demand curve, meaning tha...

I think we're not alone in being quite amazed by the resilience that the US market has shown following the very violent selloff in February and March. One of our big themes, digital innovation, continues to lead, transforming what I would call the more traditional or, sort of, classic...

All alpha-seeking active ETFs will be BlackRock branded and all index-based ETFs will remain iShares branded BlackRock’s commitment to helping clients build better financial futures is underscored today in the renaming of three alpha-seeking, actively managed exch...

Healthcare stocks are once again in focus as a result of promising news of COVID-19 vaccines. Historically, vaccine success rates are 33% from phase 1 trials to approval. Identifying healthcare companies with strong business models is a much better strategy. For further deta...