BlackRock, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York City. It operates as a publicly traded investment management company in the United States. The company provides a variety of investment management services to institutional clients and to individual investors through different investment channels. It also offers risk management, investment system outsourcing and financial advisory services to institutional investors under the BlackRock Solutions brand name. The company’s investment management services primarily consist of the active management of fixed income, cash management and equity client accounts, the management of various open-end and closed-end mutual fund families and other non-U.S. equivalent retail products serving the institutional and retail markets, and the management of alternative funds developed to serve a variety of customer needs. The company offers various fixed income, equity and balanced, cash management and alternative investment products. The company provides bond portfolios denominated in U.S. dollars, Pounds Sterling, Euros, Yen and Australian dollars. The company also expanded its alternative investment capabilities, adding real estate expertise in Australia and the U.K., single strategy hedge funds and private equity and hedge funds of funds, as well as capabilities in portable alpha strategies, liability driven investing and multi-asset class solutions. The company offers a range of fixed income products across various bond markets and sectors as well as various maturities along the yield curve. It designs portfolios to meet specific client risk and return profiles. The company also serves the international fixed income market. In addition, it has established investment teams in London, Sydney and Tokyo.
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