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Client Solutions Group

The Client Solutions Group (CSG) delivers insights and solutions to help clients achieve unique goals - powered by institutional expertise and custom investment analytics.

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Access institutional investor client solutions through custom analysis

Leveraging the power of Aladdin® and the breadth of BlackRock’s global investment platform, we collaborate with clients to address your most pressing enterprise and investment concerns:

• Peer study: Evaluate positioning relative to industry peers
• Portfolio diagnostic: Assess risk/return portfolio profiles
• Strategic asset allocations: Optimize based on portfolio objectives
• Liquidity management: Balance long-term growth with liquidity needs
• Scenario testing: Prepare for various market environments

Our services are tailored for corporate and public pensions, Taft-Hartley and multi-employer plans, investment consultants, family offices, foundations and endowments, healthcare systems, insurers and nuclear decommissioning trusts (NDTs).

Expert insights and conversations with CSG

From analyzing the risk/return profile of a portfolio to calibrating operating assets and optimizing cash flow, CSG helps institutions understand the potential impact of their investment decision.

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How’s our pension positioned against industry peers?

That’s a question every CIO and CFO is thinking about – but many don’t know where to start.

That’s where BlackRock’s Client Solutions Group comes in.

Our custom peer studies can benchmark your pension against companies that actually look like you—same industry, size, and funding level.

And what we find can be eye-opening.

This analysis shows how your plan is impacting the bottom line.

We show how your plan materiality, asset mix, and expected returns stack up relative to industry peers—across the metrics that matter most to boards, treasurers, and investment committees.

Boards are asking sharper questions. So if you’re wondering how your pension compares, let’s talk.

Our team can leverage BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to design a custom peer study that’s tailored to your specific organization—so you make smarter, more strategic decisions.

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How’s our pension positioned against industry peers?

That’s a question every CIO and CFO is thinking about – but many don’t know where to start.

That’s where BlackRock’s Client Solutions Group comes in.

Our custom peer studies can benchmark your pension against companies that actually look like you—same industry, size, and funding level.

And what we find can be eye-opening.

This analysis shows how your plan is impacting the bottom line.

We show how your plan materiality, asset mix, and expected returns stack up relative to industry peers—across the metrics that matter most to boards, treasurers, and investment committees.

Boards are asking sharper questions. So if you’re wondering how your pension compares, let’s talk.

Our team can leverage BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to design a custom peer study that’s tailored to your specific organization—so you make smarter, more strategic decisions.

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Meet the Client Solutions Group

Calvin Yu, CFA
Managing Director, Co-Head of Client Solutions Group
Timothy (TJ) Jennings
Managing Director, Co-Head of Client Solutions Group

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FAQs about BlackRock’s Client Solutions Group

  • CSG caters to a diverse range of institutional investors and investment teams across the United States, Latin America, and Canada. Our services are tailored for corporate and public pensions, Taft-Hartley and multi-employer plans, investment consultants, family offices, foundations and endowments, healthcare and hospital systems, insurers, and nuclear decommissioning trusts (NDTs).

  • CSG stands out as an extension of staff and a valuable resource for clients, offering customized insights and analytics to navigate complex investment challenges. By harnessing BlackRock's extensive resources, including the industry-leading Aladdin® platform for advanced risk management analytics, insights from the BlackRock Investment Institute, and the breadth of our global investment platform spanning Private MarketsEquitiesFixed Income, and Multi-asset, we empower clients to make informed investment decisions that align with their unique objectives.

    Aladdin® is BlackRock’s investment and risk management platform that unifies the investment management process through a common data language. With a view of your whole portfolio, it enables investors to identify opportunities and make more informed decisions. In 2025, BlackRock announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Preqin, a premier independent provider of private markets data. This strategic transaction strengthens BlackRock’s ability to serve clients’ whole portfolios — across public and private markets.

  • CSG works closely with institutions and investment teams, offering personalized, one-on-one consultations, and analytics tailored to unique investment objectives. Our key capabilities include:

    Bespoke analytics:

    • Strategic asset allocation and portfolio optimization analyses
    • Reallocation analysis
    • Risk management analytics and stress testing using Aladdin®
    • Forward simulations
    • Capital market assumptions
    • Hurdle rate, surplus risk, and funded status projections for Defined Benefit pensions
    • Historical performance analysis
    • Private markets pacing analysis
    • Liquidity management strategies
    • After-tax considerations for taxable investors
    • Asset class deep dive analytics

    Thought leadership:

    • Peer studies offering comparative analytics and benchmarking relevant to your portfolio
    • Identification and analysis of emerging trends impacting institutional investors
    • Actionable implementation strategies and its impact on portfolios
  • CSG conducts comprehensive peer research using publicly available data, covering:

    • Public pensions
    • Corporate pensions
    • Multi-employer plans
    • Healthcare organizations
    • Endowments

    This research can be enhanced and further customized with investor provided portfolio data. Institutional investors interested in participating should contact us directly.

  • For further inquiries, insights, or to discuss your specific institutional investment needs, please contact us via our contact form, email us at ClientInsight@BlackRock.com, or reach out directly to your dedicated BlackRock Relationship Manager.