BlackRock Inc

BlackRock Inc is a publicly owned investment manager The firm primarily provides its services to institutional intermediary and individual investors including corporate public union and industry pension plans insurance companies thirdparty mutual funds endowments public institutions governments foundations charities sovereign wealth funds corporations official institutions and banks It also provides global risk management and advisory services The firm manages separate clientfocused equity fixed income and balanced portfolios It also launches and manages openend and closedend mutual funds offshore funds unit trusts and alternative investment vehicles including structured funds The firm launches equity fixed income balanced and real estate mutual funds It also launches equity fixed income balanced currency commodity and multiasset exchange traded funds The firm also launches and manages hedge funds It invests in the public equity fixed income real estate currency commodity and alternative markets across the globe The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of smallcap midcap SMIDcap largecap and multicap companies It also invests in dividendpaying equity securities The firm invests in investment grade municipal securities government securities including securities issued or guaranteed by a government or a government agency or instrumentality corporate bonds and assetbacked and mortgagebacked securities It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottomup and topdown approach to make its investments The firm employs liquidity asset allocation balanced real estate and alternative strategies to make its investments In real estate sector it seeks to invest in Poland and Germany The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against various SP Russell Barclays MSCI Citigroup and Merrill Lynch indices BlackRock Inc was founded in 1988 and is based in New York City with additional offices in Boston Massachusetts London United Kingdom Gurgaon India Hong Kong Greenwich Connecticut Princeton New Jersey Edinburgh United Kingdom Sydney Australia Taipei Taiwan Singapore Sao Paulo Brazil Philadelphia Pennsylvania Washington District of Columbia Toronto Canada Wilmington Delaware and San Francisco California