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Emerging market debt offers higher yield and diversification – but proceed carefully

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The search for yield – especially when markets are in turmoil – has investors digging into emerging market debt for new opportunities and to diversify their portfolios. Investors poured $152 billion into emerging market debt exchange-traded products in 2025, according to BlackRock and Markit. That compares to the $103 billion that flowed into emerging market …

BlackRock’s Rick Rieder is locking in attractive yields in this corner of the bond market before the opportunity slips away

by InfoVera Team

The window is still open for investors to grab attractive income in the bond market, but it won’t last forever, according to BlackRock’s Rick Rieder. These days, he is gravitating toward emerging market bonds, and locking in double-digit yields before the opportunity slips away. Bond yields move inversely to prices. “I’ve never seen this sort …