This section includes investor type descriptions for professional clients and market counterparties.
Professional client
A Professional Client is either: (i) a ‘deemed’ professional client; (ii) serviced-based professional client; or (iii) an assessed professional Client
(i) Deemed Professional Client
A person is a “deemed” professional client if the person is:
(ii) Service-based Professional Clients
A person is a ‘serviced-based’ professional client if
(iii) Assessed-based Professional Clients
Assessed-based professional clients can be either (i) individuals; or (ii) undertakings
Individuals
An individual (and associated joint account holders) would be classified as an ‘assessed-based professional client’ if:
Where there is a joint account in place, the secondary account holder must obtain confirmation in writing that investment decisions relating to the joint account are made for or on behalf of the secondary account holder
Undertakings
Undertakings, which are generally not individuals, would be classified as ‘assessed-based’ professional clients if it:
Market counterparties
A Market Counterparty is any person who is either:
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This chart shows the product's performance as the percentage loss or gain per year over the last 10 years.
This chart shows the product’s performance as the percentage loss or gain per year over the last 10 years against its benchmark. It can help you to assess how the product has been managed in the past and compare it to its benchmark.
Prior to 23rd February 2024, the fund used a different benchmark which is reflected in the benchmark data.
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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Total Return (%) | -2.2 | 5.4 | 19.1 | -12.5 | 26.0 | 24.5 | 14.8 | -19.7 | 17.0 | 15.5 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | -0.8 | 9.1 | 23.7 | -8.2 | 27.9 | 15.1 | 21.7 | -16.5 | 23.4 | 17.4 |
Performance is shown after deduction of ongoing charges. Any entry and exit charges are excluded from the calculation.
1y | 3y | 5y | 10y | Incept. | |
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Total Return (%) | 7.04 | 8.44 | 11.23 | 7.08 | 6.79 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | 13.65 | 12.89 | 14.44 | 10.36 | 8.51 |
YTD | 1m | 3m | 6m | 1y | 3y | 5y | 10y | Incept. | |
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Total Return (%) | 1.55 | 7.13 | 1.99 | -0.95 | 7.04 | 27.53 | 70.22 | 98.21 | 254.40 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | 5.32 | 5.75 | 2.52 | 2.83 | 13.65 | 43.88 | 96.30 | 168.02 | 381.49 |
From 31-Mar-2020 To 31-Mar-2021 |
From 31-Mar-2021 To 31-Mar-2022 |
From 31-Mar-2022 To 31-Mar-2023 |
From 31-Mar-2023 To 31-Mar-2024 |
From 31-Mar-2024 To 31-Mar-2025 |
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Total Return (%)
as of 31-Mar-2025 |
65.95 | 3.04 | -9.91 | 21.40 | -1.03 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%)
as of 31-Mar-2025 |
54.34 | 10.50 | -6.12 | 24.07 | 7.15 |
The figures shown relate to past performance. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Markets could develop very differently in the future. It can help you to assess how the fund has been managed in the past
Share Class and Benchmark performance displayed in USD, hedged share class benchmark performance is displayed in USD.
Performance is shown on a Net Asset Value (NAV) basis, with gross income reinvested where applicable. The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations if your investment is made in a currency other than that used in the past performance calculation. Source: Blackrock
Name | Weight (%) |
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MICROSOFT CORP | 5.20 |
NVIDIA CORP | 4.86 |
MASTERCARD INC CLASS A | 2.67 |
WALMART INC | 2.55 |
ELI LILLY | 2.51 |
Name | Weight (%) |
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APPLE INC | 2.44 |
AMAZON COM INC | 2.29 |
HOME DEPOT INC | 2.29 |
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING | 2.26 |
RELX PLC | 2.17 |
Name | Weight (%) |
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REI AGRO LTD RegS 5.5 11/13/2014 | 0.00 |
% of Net Assets
Type | Fund | Benchmark | Net |
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Equity (EQ) | 97.51 | 100.00 | -2.49 |
Commodities | 3.41 | 0.00 | 3.41 |
Fixed Income (FI) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Other | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Cash Equivalents | -0.92 | 0.00 | -0.92 |
% of Market Value
Type | Fund | Benchmark | Net |
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Information Technology | 30.37 | 24.75 | 5.62 |
Financials | 16.20 | 17.97 | -1.77 |
Health Care | 12.99 | 9.13 | 3.86 |
Consumer Discretionary | 11.40 | 10.72 | 0.68 |
Industrials | 11.01 | 11.00 | 0.01 |
Communication | 5.40 | 8.40 | -3.00 |
Utilities | 3.31 | 2.69 | 0.62 |
Materials | 2.68 | 3.54 | -0.86 |
Consumer Staples | 2.61 | 6.20 | -3.59 |
Energy | 1.41 | 3.55 | -2.14 |
% of Net Assets
Investor Class | Currency | NAV | NAV Amount Change | NAV % Change | NAV As Of | 52wk High | 52wk Low | ISIN |
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Class A2 | USD | 36.18 | -0.27 | -0.74 | 13-Jun-2025 | 36.55 | 29.63 | LU0238689110 |
Class A2 | EUR | 31.39 | -0.08 | -0.25 | 13-Jun-2025 | 34.89 | 27.08 | LU0238689623 |
Class A2 Hedged | EUR | 20.49 | -0.15 | -0.73 | 13-Jun-2025 | 20.89 | 16.89 | LU0238690555 |
Class A4 | EUR | 31.30 | -0.08 | -0.25 | 13-Jun-2025 | 34.79 | 27.00 | LU0408221603 |
Class D2 | USD | 41.12 | -0.31 | -0.75 | 13-Jun-2025 | 41.54 | 33.64 | LU0368268198 |
Class D2 | EUR | 35.68 | -0.09 | -0.25 | 13-Jun-2025 | 39.56 | 30.74 | LU0827880856 |
Class D2 Hedged | EUR | 22.53 | -0.17 | -0.75 | 13-Jun-2025 | 22.89 | 18.55 | LU0326425609 |
Class D4 | EUR | 28.96 | -0.07 | -0.24 | 13-Jun-2025 | 32.10 | 24.94 | LU0938162772 |
Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Mr. Rieder is responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets. He is a member of BlackRock’s Executive Sub-Committee on Investments, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.
Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.
Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar.
From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.
Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the business school's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.
Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation, and Trustee for the US Olympic Foundation. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.
Randy Berkowitz, CFA, Managing Director, is a member of the Global Allocation Team . He is a Senior Investor and Head of quantitative strategies and research which serves to drive the Team’s asset allocation process, security sizing and risk management, in addition to covering sub industries within the Healthcare sector.
Randy Berkowitz, CFA, Managing Director, is a member of the Global Allocation Team . He is a Senior Investor and Head of quantitative strategies and research which serves to drive the Team’s asset allocation process, security sizing and risk management, in addition to covering sub industries within the Healthcare sector.
Mr. Berkowitz joined the BlackRock Global Allocation team in 2008 to oversee the build-out of the Team’s quantitative analytic capabilities and subsequently conduct fundamental research. In 2016, he led the development of the quantitative strategies and research for Global Allocation. He joined BlackRock in 2004 as an Analyst in the Portfolio Analytics Group where he helped design and deliver analytic solutions to BlackRock’s Portfolio Management teams. In this role, he led strategic initiatives to improve BlackRock's Green Package analytic suite. Mr. Berkowitz helped manage the Merrill Lynch Investment Managers / BlackRock Equity integration for the Portfolio Analytics Group in 2007.
Mr. Berkowitz earned a BA degree in Astrophysics from Columbia University in 2004. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is a member of the Global Allocation team and the lead portfolio manager of the GA Selects Model Portfolios.
Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is a member of the Global Allocation team and the lead portfolio manager of the GA Selects Model Portfolios.
Mr. Koesterich's service with BlackRock dates back to 2005, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. He joined the BlackRock Global Allocation team in 2016 as Head of Asset Allocation and was named a portfolio manager of the Fund in 2017. Previously, he was BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Strategist and Chairman of the Investment Committee for the Model Portfolio Solutions business, and formerly served as the Global Head of Investment Strategy for scientific active equities and as senior portfolio manager in the US Market Neutral Group. Prior to joining BGI, Mr. Koesterich was the Chief North American Strategist at State Street Bank and Trust. He began his investment career at Instinet Research Partners where he occupied several positions in research, including Director of Investment Strategy for both U.S. and European research, and Equity Analyst. He is a frequent contributor to financials news media and the author of three books, including his most recent “Portfolio Construction for Today’s Markets.“
Mr. Koesterich earned a BA in history from Brandeis University, a JD from Boston College and an MBA from Columbia University. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
Sarah Thompson, CFA, Managing Director, is a member of the Global Allocation Team, . She is a senior investor, primarily responsible for coverage of the chemicals, metals & mining, midstream and utilities sectors. global fundamental credit, private placements, distressed investments.
Sarah Thompson, CFA, Managing Director, is a member of the Global Allocation Team, She is a senior investor, primarily responsible for coverage of the chemicals, metals & mining, midstream and utilities sectors. global fundamental credit, private placements, distressed investments.
Ms. Thompson joined the BlackRock Global Allocation team in 2018. Her service with BlackRock dates back to 2013, when she joined as Head of Americas and Global Director of Credit Research. Prior to joining Blackrock in 2013, Mrs. Thompson was a Managing Director at Barclays heading the U.S. Distressed Desk Analyst Group. Prior to joining Barclays in September 2008, Ms. Thompson headed the Industrials pod for High Grade and High Yield Research at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Thompson joined Lehman Brothers in 1999 covering high yield manufacturing, services and automotive sectors. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, she covered similar industries for CIBC World Markets, which she joined in 1996 after working in the mortgage consulting group at KPMG Peat Marwick.
Ms. Thompson earned a BSBA degree in Accounting from Georgetown University. She is a CFA® Charterholder and completed the Certified Public Accountant exam.
Sustainability Characteristics provide investors with specific non-traditional metrics. Alongside other metrics and information, these enable investors to evaluate funds on certain environmental, social and governance characteristics. Sustainability Characteristics do not provide an indication of current or future performance nor do they represent the potential risk and reward profile of a fund. They are provided for transparency and for information purposes only. Sustainability Characteristics should not be considered solely or in isolation, but instead are one type of information that investors may wish to consider when assessing a fund.
The metrics are not indicative of how or whether ESG factors will be integrated into a fund. Unless otherwise stated in fund documentation and included within a fund’s investment objective, the metrics do not change a fund’s investment objective or constrain the fund’s investable universe, and there is no indication that an ESG or Impact focused investment strategy or exclusionary screens will be adopted by a fund. For more information regarding a fund's investment strategy, please see the fund's prospectus.
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To be included in MSCI ESG Fund Ratings, 65% (or 50% for bond funds and money market funds) of the fund’s gross weight must come from securities with ESG coverage by MSCI ESG Research (certain cash positions and other asset types deemed not relevant for ESG analysis by MSCI are removed prior to calculating a fund’s gross weight; the absolute values of short positions are included but treated as uncovered), the fund’s holdings date must be less than one year old, and the fund must have at least ten securities.
Business Involvement metrics can help investors gain a more comprehensive view of specific activities in which a fund may be exposed through its investments.
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Business Involvement metrics are calculated by BlackRock using data from MSCI ESG Research which provides a profile of each company’s specific business involvement. BlackRock leverages this data to provide a summed up view across holdings and translates it to a fund's market value exposure to the listed Business Involvement areas above.
Business Involvement metrics are designed only to identify companies where MSCI has conducted research and identified as having involvement in the covered activity. As a result, it is possible there is additional involvement in these covered activities where MSCI does not have coverage. This information should not be used to produce comprehensive lists of companies without involvement. Business Involvement metrics are only displayed if at least 1% of the fund’s gross weight includes securities covered by MSCI ESG Research.
The fund invests a large portion of assets which are denominated in other currencies; hence changes in the relevant exchange rate will affect the value of the investment. Compared to more established economies, the value of investments in developing Emerging Markets may be subject to greater volatility due to differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability. The fund may invest in smaller company shares which can be more unpredictable and less liquid than those of larger company shares.
Review the MSCI methodology behind the Sustainability Characteristics and Business Involvement metrics: 1ESG Fund Ratings; 2Index Carbon Footprint Metrics; 3Business Involvement Screening Research; 4ESG Screened Index Methodology; 5ESG Controversies; 6MSCI Implied Temperature Rise
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