About BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock, Inc. is a leading privately owned investment manager offering a wide range of financial services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors worldwide.
Services and Offerings
- Investment Management: Manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios.
- Fund Management: Launches and manages open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles.
- Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs): Offers equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset ETFs.
- Hedge Funds: Launches and manages hedge funds for diverse investment strategies.
- Global Risk Management: Provides advisory services to help clients navigate market risks.
Investment Strategies
- Invests in public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets globally.
- Focuses on growth and value stocks across small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies.
- Targets dividend-paying equity securities and investment-grade municipal, government, corporate, asset-backed, and mortgage-backed securities.
- Employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with bottom-up and top-down approaches.
- Uses liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies.
Real Estate Focus
The firm actively invests in real estate markets, with a particular emphasis on Poland and Germany.
Performance Benchmarking
BlackRock benchmarks portfolio performance against leading indices, including:
- S&P
- Russell
- Barclays
- MSCI
- Citigroup
- Merrill Lynch
Company Background
Founded in 1988, BlackRock is headquartered in New York, New York, with a vast global presence spanning offices in:
- North America: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Greenwich, Houston, Miami, Newport Beach, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, Princeton, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, Washington DC, West Palm Beach, Wilmington, Canada, Mexico.
- Europe: Netherlands, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, England, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Austria.
- Asia-Pacific: India, China, Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan.
- Latin America: Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil.
- Middle East & Africa: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, South Africa.