BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager that provides services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors. Founded in 1988 and based in New York City, the firm has grown to become one of the largest asset management companies in the world. It manages over $7.4 trillion in assets and employs over 14,000 people across the globe.

BlackRock offers a wide range of investment products and services, including global risk management and advisory services, separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios, open-end and closed-end mutual funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles such as structured funds. It also offers equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset exchange traded funds, as well as hedge funds. The firm invests in a variety of markets, including public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets.

BlackRock employs a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis, with a focus on bottom-up and top-down approaches to make its investments. It also uses liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies. In the real estate sector, the firm seeks to invest in Poland and Germany. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against various S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch indices.

BlackRock has a presence in many countries and regions around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Australia, Taiwan, Canada, and the Middle East. It also has offices in major cities such as New York, London, Boston, Gurgaon, Greenwich, Princeton, Edinburgh, Sydney, Taipei, Sao Paulo, Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto, Wilmington, and San Francisco. The firm has been recognized for its commitment to sustainability, and has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the past 11 years.