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 third-party 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 client-focused equity fixed income and balanced portfolios. It also launches and manages open-end and closed-end 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 multi-asset 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 small-cap mid-cap SMID-cap large-cap and multi-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying 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 asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up and top-down 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 S&P 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