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BlackRock, Inc., founded in 1988 and based in New York City, is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm caters to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors, including corporate, public, union, and industry pension plans, insurance companies, mutual funds, endowments, public institutions, governments, foundations, charities, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, official institutions, and banks. In addition to investment management, BlackRock provides global risk management and advisory services. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios, and offers a range of mutual funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles.

BlackRock's investment portfolio spans public equity, fixed income, real estate, curency, comodity, and alternative markets globally. The firm invests in growth and value stocks across various market capitalizations, including small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies, as well as dividend-paying equity securities. In the fixed income sector, BlackRock invests in investment-grade municipal securities, government securities, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis, focusing on both bottom-up and top-down investment approaches, and uses various strategies including liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies. In the real estate sector, BlackRock has notable investments in Poland and Germany.

BlackRock benchmarks its portfolio performance against a range of indices such as S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch. The firm has a significant global presence, with additional offices in Boston, London, Gurgaon, Hong Kong, Greenwich, Princeton, Edinburgh, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Toronto, Wilmington, and San Francisco. This extensive network supports its diverse investment and advisory services, making BlackRock a leading player in the global financial industry.

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