BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock, Inc. stands as a globally recognized investment management powerhouse, publicly owned and operating across a diverse range of financial markets. Its services are primarily targeted towards a broad spectrum of investors: from institutional, intermediary, and individual investors to a wider audience including pension plans, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and public institutions. Its portfolio includes corporate bodies, banks, charities, foundations, and governments, showcasing a worldwide investment reach.

Beyond mere investment management, BlackRock also offers robust risk management and advisory services, adding another dimension to its comprehensive financial portfolio. It manages bespoke client portfolios focused on equity, fixed income, and balanced assets.

In the realm of investment vehicles, BlackRock exhibits an extensive array: it initiates and oversees open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, as well as alternative investment vehicles such as structured funds. It is adept in launching a variety of mutual funds, including equity, fixed income, balanced, and real estate. Furthermore, it displays a strong foothold in exchange-traded funds, covering domains like equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset classes. Additionally, BlackRock also engages in the management of hedge funds.

When it comes to investment strategies, BlackRock has a strong presence across public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets on a global scale. It diversifies its portfolio by investing in growth and value stocks of companies across different market capitalizations. The firm also pursues investment-grade municipal securities, government securities, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities.

To ensure effective and efficient investments, BlackRock applies a combination of fundamental and quantitative analyses, using a balanced blend of bottom-up and top-down approaches. Its strategies also encompass liquidity, asset allocation, real estate, and alternative investment. In the real estate sector, it shows a particular interest in markets like Poland and Germany.

In terms of performance evaluation, BlackRock benchmarks its portfolios against well-established indices like S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch.

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York City, BlackRock extends its global footprint with additional offices in key cities worldwide such as Boston, London, Gurgaon, Hong Kong, Greenwich, Princeton, Edinburgh, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Toronto, Wilmington, and San Francisco.

Team

The Global Executive Committee

Larry Fink - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Laurence D. Fink is one of the seven founders of BlackRock, and has been a large influence in its leadership since ints foundation in 1988. Prior to founding BlackRock he earned an MBA at the University of Los Angeles in 1976 and a BA from UCLA in 1974 and worked for The First Boston Corporation, an investment bank, being part of its management committee and a managing director. Additionally he is currently a member of a number of associations, including the Board of Trustees of New York University (NYU), the World Economic Forum, the board of the council of foreign relations, the advisory board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing and on the Executive Committee of the Partnership for New York City.

Rob Kapito - President

Rob Kapito is also one of the seven founders of BlackRock in 1988. Since 2007 he has been part of BlackRocks Global Executive Committee, Chairman of the Global Operating Committee and Director and President of BlackRock. Prior to founding BlackRock he achieved a bachelor in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983. Furthermore he served as Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation before co-founding BlackRock. He is member of many associations, including being the President of the Board of Directors for the Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund, recipient of the 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award and the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation's 2010 Semper Fidelis Award.