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Greek Blood In The Water, BlackRock Dips In Toe To Find Value

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Mark Melin
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Is BlackRock buying when blood is in the water in Greece? The $4.7 trillion bond manager recently dipped their toes in the water as the Greeks, apparently, have succumb to German desires and outwardly appear on a path that doesn't feature debt default.

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BlackRock: Aggressive strategy bought "tiny bit of Greece"

“For the more aggressive total-return accounts, we actually bought a tiny bit of Greece a week ago,” Michael Krautzberger told Jonathan Ferro in a Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move” interview. “Obviously the headlines didn’t look good, but if you looked at the pricing terms we thought that the pessimism...

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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.