BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock, Inc. is a premier investment management firm catering to a wide range of clients globally.

The firm provides its services to Institutional, intermediary and individual investors, including:

• Corporate, public, union and industry pension plans

• Insurance companies

• Third-party mutual funds

• Endowments, foundations and charities

• Public institutions and governments

• Sovereign wealth funds, corporations and official institutions

• Banks

• Global risk management and advisory services

BlackRock’s investment offerings include:

• Separate client-focused portfolios in equity, fixed income, and balanced strategies.

• Mutual funds: Open-end and closed-end funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles, including structured funds.

• Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs): Covering equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset strategies.

• Hedge funds

• Real estate investments

The firm employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down investment approaches. It applies strategies across liquidity, asset allocation, balanced portfolios, real estate, and alternative investments.

BlackRock benchmarks its portfolio performance against indices from S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch.

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.