Accessing targeted asset classes using iShares ETFs

Asset allocation can play a large role in determining the overall potential return of a portfolio. This section covers the benefits of different asset classes — large-cap and small-cap, emerging and developed international markets, the fixed income landscape, and important categories like alternatives — to help you carefully determine the asset class weighting that will help you strike the right balance between risk and return in your portfolios.

By investing across a variety of asset classes and across a range of geographies, sectors, and styles, you can help reduce the impact of a poor-performing single investment in a portfolio. The broad family of iShares ETFs makes it easy to help you diversify both across and within asset classes, with low-cost, efficient funds tracking established indexes in virtually every asset class.

Additionally, the iShares Portfolio Builder Funds are a convenient, single transaction way to access tailored portfolios that offer cost-effective, efficient and diversified solutions to meet specific needs based upon your clients’ risk tolerance (from growth to conservative) or an allocation to complete global or alternative portfolios. Both solutions are dynamically managed by professionals who constantly monitor and rebalance to the specific allocation parameters.

Large-Cap Equity

Large-cap ETFs can offer efficient, low-cost core large-cap equity exposure with transparency and trading flexibility, making them ideal for both strategic and tactical uses.
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Fixed Income

Fixed income has the potential to offset some of the volatility associated with equities, and to provide a measure of principal protection for investors. Investors can also obtain exposure to a certain segment of the bond market in one trade, reducing the need to research, price, purchase and manage a large number of individual bonds.
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Emerging Markets

By offering access to companies—and even entire industries—that may not exist in Canada, emerging market equities can play important strategic and tactical portfolio roles. Visit our Emerging Markets page to learn how an allocation to emerging markets equities can provide diversification and enhance your portfolio's risk/return profile.
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