Rick Harper

CIO, Fixed Income


Rick Harper serves as the Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Fixed Income at WisdomTree Asset Management, where he oversees the firm’s suite of fixed income and currency exchange-traded funds. He is also a member of the WisdomTree Model Portfolio Investment Committee and takes a leading role in the management and oversight of the fixed income model allocations. Rick has 28 years investment experience in strategy and portfolio management positions at prominent investment firms. Prior to joining WisdomTree in 2007, Rick held senior level strategist roles with RBC Dain Rauscher, Bank One Capital Markets, ETF Advisors, and Nuveen Investments. At ETF Advisors, he was the portfolio manager and developer of some of the first fixed income exchange-traded funds. His research has been featured in leading periodicals including the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Indexes. He graduated from Emory University and earned his MBA at Indiana University.

Latest Insights From Rick Harper

The fixed income market has seen a resurgence of income this year, with asset classes continuing to offer attractive yields to long-term investors. Behnood Noei and Rick Harper outline how the WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund (AGGY) seeks to provide investors a favorable alternative to conventional Agg products.
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Against the backdrop of an approaching mild recession, Behnood Noei outlines an asset class that could perform well amid an economic downturn: EM local currency debt.
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With income back in fixed income, it’s prudent to examine market composition more closely. Rick Harper looks at U.S. corporate borrowers, analyzing both investment-grade and high-yield issuers across duration, quality and sector allocations.
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Investors have faced a lot of challenges in recent years, but few have been more impactful than the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates by 450 basis points in the last year. Against this backdrop, Rick Harper highlights the high-yield market and how it provides excellent opportunity for long-term investors.
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As interest rate volatility remains elevated, we continue to monitor the trade-offs between risk and potential returns across fixed income markets. With this in mind, our Model Portfolio Investment Committee discusses the latest updates to our fixed income portfolios.
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We launched our Short Duration Fixed Income Model in 2021 with the goal of reducing interest rate risk while generating close-to-index levels of yield. A year later, Scott Welch, Rick Harper and Kevin Flanagan provide an update on how this Model Portfolio has performed given the current Fed rate hike regime. 
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2023 Mid-Year Economic and Market Outlook

The economic and market landscapes continue to evolve, and we expect some significant changes as we make our way through the remainder of 2023. In our Mid-Year Economic and Market Outlook for 2023, we lay out some of the “known unknowns” we believe could significantly affect the investing landscape and dive into our thoughts covering Equities, Fixed income and Real assets and alternatives. 

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2023 Economic and Market Outlook

The economic and market landscapes continue to evolve, and we expect some significant changes as we make our way through 2023. In our Economic and Market Outlook for 2023, we lay out some of the “known unknowns” we believe could significantly affect the investing landscape and dive into our thoughts covering Equities, Fixed income and Real assets and alternatives. 

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Planning for Potential 2020 Election Results
We are entering the homestretch of the 2020 presidential election season. With two polarizing presidential candidates, an ongoing pandemic, a recession, social unrest and a mail-in ballot controversy, this cycle is truly like no other. With the current environment in mind, we lay out four possible election outcomes, with our thoughts on how the markets may react to each one. Our hope is that advisors and investors can begin to think ahead and plan for different potential scenarios.
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