Karen Veraa, CFA

Karen Veraa, CFA

Fixed Income Product Strategist

Karen Veraa, CFA, is a Fixed Income Product Strategist within BlackRock’s Global Fixed Income Group focusing on iShares fixed income ETFs. She concentrates on supporting iShares clients, generating content on fixed income markets and ETFs, developing new fixed income iShares ETF strategies, and partnering with the iShares team on product delivery. She writes about fixed income ETFs and trends in that sector.

 

Mrs. Veraa is also a regular author on the BlackRock blog and has been interviewed on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and BNN.

 

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was an investment research analyst at a Registered Investment Advisory firm in Seattle, providing investment solutions for high net worth clients. Mrs. Veraa began her career as a short-term funding trader in the treasury department of Washington Mutual Bank.

 

Mrs. Veraa earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and is a CFA Charter holder.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Market Insights

Get back into bonds with iBonds® ETFs

May 15, 2024 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn how iBonds® ETFs can help investors capture today’s yields.

Investment Strategies

A case for getting off the sidelines and into bond ETFs

Apr 26, 2024 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn about the current yield opportunity in bond markets

Market Insights

Put cash to work with short-term bond ETFs

Mar 20, 2024 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn how short-term bond ETFs can help you keep up with inflation and diversify where your short-term assets are held.

Market Insights

Seeking higher income with BlackRock’s Rick Rieder

Mar 13, 2024 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn how an active ETF run by BlackRock’s CIO of Global Fixed Income may help investors access hard-to-reach segments of the fixed income market.

Market Insights

Should investors add duration to bond portfolios now?

Sep 20, 2023 | Karen Veraa, CFA

What is duration? Learn about how investors can take advantage of the recent rise in fixed-income yields.

Market Insights

Bonds still have a big role to play in portfolios

Sep 7, 2023 | Karen Veraa, CFA

With higher yields as the US Federal Reserve has increased interest rates, bond ETFs provide a way to diversify portfolios, generate income and preserve capital. Learn more about how the right mix of bond ETFs can help pursue your long-term investment goals.

Market Insights

3 ways bond buy-write ETFs can benefit investors

Jul 25, 2023 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn about buy-write strategies and how they can potentially add income and diversification to bond portfolios.

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Why this may be the most attractive bond market in 15 years

Apr 3, 2023 | Karen Veraa, CFA

Learn how the bond market is offering investors a great opportunity to seek income and potentially reduce portfolio risk.
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