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BlackRock rips page from hedge fund playbook, applies it to exchange-traded funds

Cnbc · · 399 words · By Blair Bao; Stephanie Landsman
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What to know about BlackRock rips page from hedge fund playbook, applies it to exchange-traded funds

BlackRock is applying hedge fund strategies to its exchange-traded fund business.

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What happened

BlackRock is applying hedge fund strategies to its exchange-traded fund business.

Why it matters

Jeffrey Rosenberg, the firm's senior portfolio manager on the systemic fixed income team, has a leading role in the firm's liquid alternatives ETFs — which use a long-short strategy in ETF wrappers.

Common ground

He contends the strategy provides valuable diversification amid the recent breakdown in the relationship between stocks and bonds.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “BlackRock is applying hedge fund strategies to its exchange-traded fund business.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about BlackRock applying hedge fund strategies to ETFs.
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Claim 2: “Our equity portfolios have been more and more dominated by the big, large cap tech winners.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about large-cap tech dominance in equity portfolios.
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Claim 3: “Overall, this is still relatively small compared to traditional equity [and] traditional fixed income, but we are seeing advisors looking for something that's going to zag when the market zigs.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about liquid alternatives ETFs being relatively small compared to traditional assets.
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Claim 4: “We're bringing the techniques that we've developed in the hedge fund side of our business, which primarily center around market neutral, long-short investing.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about BlackRock applying hedge fund techniques to ETFs.
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Claim 5: “This entire post-Covid environment has really challenged that bedrock principle of the 60-40 portfolio that bonds are diversifying.”
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Wikipedia results about U.S. presidents, the definite article 'The,' and disambiguation pages are unrelated to the 60-40 portfolio's performance post-Covid. No evidence confirms or refutes the claim.
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Claim 6: “Rosenberg is a portfolio manager on two BlackRock liquid alts ETFs: the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF (IALT) and the iShares Managed Futures Active ETF (ISMF). As of April 8, the firm's website shows IALT is up almost 8% so far this year while the ISMF is up nearly 5%.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about IALT and ISMF ETF performance as of April 8.
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Claim 7: “The great old adage around fixed income is 'my bonds go up when my stocks go down.' Now, we just went through a period in March with war risk where we clearly saw again on display... that doesn't hold. And, really saw it in 2022”
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Wikipedia results about 'March' and 'Ides of March' are unrelated to financial market dynamics in March 2022. No evidence confirms or refutes the claim about the breakdown of the traditional stock-bond relationship.
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Claim 8: “Client demand for liquid alts ETFs is growing because there's a desire to diversify your diversifiers.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about growing demand for liquid alts ETFs.
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Claim 9: “Jeffrey Rosenberg, the firm's senior portfolio manager on the systemic fixed income team, has a leading role in the firm's liquid alternatives ETFs — which use a long-short strategy in ETF wrappers.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about Jeffrey Rosenberg's role in BlackRock's liquid alternatives ETFs.
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