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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:
- a supranational organisation whose members are either countries, central banks or national monetary authorities
• a government, government agency, central bank or other national monetary authority of any country or jurisdiction
• a public authority or state investment body
• an Authorised Market Institution, Regulated Exchange or regulated clearing house
• a Regulated Financial Institution or the management company of a regulated pension fund;
• a Collective Investment Fund or a regulated pension fund;
• a corporate body whose shares are listed or admitted to trading on any exchange of an IOCSO member country
• trustee of a trust which has, or had during the previous 12 months, assets of at least $10 million;
• a Single Family Office licensed under the Single Family Office Regulations
• a person classified as a ‘large undertaking’ who meetstwoof the following criteria (i) a balance sheet total of at least $20 million; (ii) a net annual turnover of at least $40 million or (iii) own funds or called up capital of at least $2 million
(ii) Service-based Professional Clients
A person is a ‘serviced-based’ professional client if
- the services provided to the client is in relation to the provision of credit including arranging and/or advising on credit
• the services provided to the client relates to corporate structuring and financing such as advice relating to an acquisition, disposal, structuring, restructuring, financing or refinancing of a corporation or other legal entity i.e. takeovers, mergers and capital raising
(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:
- the individual (and primary account holder, if relevant) has net assets of at least $1 million; and
• the individual is, or has been, an employee of an authorised firm or a regulated financial institution in the past two years; or
• the individual can provide evidence which demonstrates that they have sufficient knowledge and experience of relevant markets, products and associated risks
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:
- has own funds or called up capital of at least $1 million; and
• can evidence that they have sufficient knowledge and experience of relevant markets, products and associated risks
Market counterparties
A Market Counterparty is any person who is either:
- authorised firm;
• regulated financial institution; or
• professional client
SUSTAINABLE & TRANSITION INVESTING
Our range of sustainable and transition investing solutions
Align your portfolio to your goals with a range of index, active, cash, private markets and whole portfolio solutions. Choose from broad exposure to more tactical investments in sustainable and transition themes to transition-focused infrastructure.
Finding products that align to your goals
We offer choice with the industry’s largest sustainable and transition product range.1 Navigate the tabs below to discover products and portfolio use cases that could align to your investment goals.
Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the amount they originally invested.
BlackRock defines transition investing as: Investing with a focus on preparing for, being aligned to, benefitting from and/or contributing to the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Seek exclusions
Asset allocation approach:
Broad
- For clients looking to avoid investments in certain business activities while maintaining similar risk and return characteristics to traditional benchmarks.
Our active management capabilities
We help our clients align their whole portfolios to their investment objectives.
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• With a focus on alpha generation and risk management, the Fundamental Fixed Income team uses top-down views from lead portfolio managers and bottom-up expertise from our sector specialists to build fixed income portfolios that aim to drive consistent alpha.
• BlackRock’s PEXT/NEXT™ Externalities Profiler3 enables sustainable investing across the fixed income universe. The profiler is built using sector-specific methodologies to allow for easy portfolio construction and reporting.
• We use multiple ESG vendor datasets, public climate datasets and internal datasets for enriched coverage across fixed income markets including privates, securitised, municipals, etc.
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•Fundamental equity investors use deep research and insights of their regions, sectors and companies to assemble a concentrated, yet balanced portfolio of stocks aiming to deliver alpha.
•Through bottom-up expert insights, the teams build portfolios company-by-company, assessing the core merits of individual businesses to gain a thorough understanding of their long-term potential.
•The goal: outperform the market by constructing concentrated, yet diversified portfolios of fundamentally sound businesses at the right valuations.
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• Systematic investing emphasises data-driven insights, scientific testing of investment ideas and advanced computer modelling techniques to generate consistent, differentiated alpha.
• When it comes to sustainable and transition investing, a systematic approach goes beyond tilting towards off-the-shelf environmental, societal and governance (“ESG”) scores. Our systematic strategies combine bottom-up transition insights that leverage alternative data with top-down decarbonisation targets at the whole portfolio level.
• We believe that the ability to unlock insights from the huge volume, high velocity and diverse collection of alternative ESG data sources has advanced the sensibility around a systematic approach to sustainable investing.
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• Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions (MASS) draws on the toolkit of BlackRock's index, factor and alpha-seeking investment capabilities to deliver investment insights and precise investment management.
• Our multi-asset strategies bring together BlackRock's global capabilities, utilising the best ideas from across the firm and taking into account sustainability characteristics that may impact the financial performance of portfolios.
Our indexing capabilities
Clients can use BlackRock's index strategies for a range of investment needs, including risk management, tactical adjustments and cash equitisation.
1 Source: Morningstar, Global Sustainable Fund Flows as of 24 October 2024.
2 Source: Sustainable Investments as defined in Article 2.17 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), 2019 - “investments in an economic activity that contribute to an environmental or social objective,(…) provided that such investments do not significantly harm any [other environmental or social] objectives and that the investee companies follow good governance practices…”.
3 Source: PEXT/NEXT™ is our proprietary framework for externalities - it profiles the fixed income universe to identify securities with associated positive and negative externalities, as well as those holdings warranting additional issuer engagement.
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