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Explore factor-based investing strategies

Combining human ingenuity and modern technology, BlackRock has been at the forefront of factor-based investing for decades. Our Factors, Solutions and Sustainability team continues to innovate new strategies, ranging from low-cost ETFs to flexible multi-asset strategies, to help clients capture these time-tested drivers of return.
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Advantages of factor-based investing

Investing in factors can help improve portfolio outcomes, boost diversification and target excess returns in an efficient and low-cost way.
Enhanced diversification:
Harness different factors together in a strategic allocation.
Flexible portfolio construction:
Implement modest tilts and allocate across factors with low correlations to balance opportunities.
Information edge:
Leverage the power of big data and cutting-edge technology to systematically tap into time-tested principles.

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Explore factor-based strategies

BlackRock offers a range of solutions designed to tap into the potential of factors – from low-cost, efficient factor ETFs to dynamically managed enhanced factor strategies.

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Don’t pay active fees for factor-based returns

Modernize your approach to the traditional style box and use factors to target specific sources of return.

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Seek market-like exposure with below-market risk

Don’t let market volatility get in the way of achieving long-term investment outcomes. Consider minimum volatility strategies to manage risk while also participating in the market.

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Performance data represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate with market conditions and may be lower or higher when you sell your shares. Current performance may differ from the performance shown. For most recent month-end performance and standardized performance, click here.

Performance data represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate with market conditions and may be lower or higher when you sell your shares. Current performance may differ from the performance shown. For most recent month-end performance and standardized performance, click here.

Performance data represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate with market conditions and may be lower or higher when you sell your shares. Current performance may differ from the performance shown. For most recent month-end performance and standardized performance, click here.

Seek an alpha advantage with active factor rotation

BlackRock’s U.S. Equity Factor Rotation ETF (DYNF) actively adjusts exposure to factors as market environments shift.

Scroll over the chart to view the regime-aware characteristics of DYNF and how this ETF has historically navigated challenging markets like the post-pandemic recovery of 2021, rising rates and inflation in 2022, and the market rebound of 2023 with dynamic factor tilts.

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Learn more about factor-based investing

Are you seeking to improve portfolio outcomes, reduce volatility or enhance diversification? Discover how factors work to better capture the potential for excess return and reduced risk.

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There can be no assurance that performance will be enhanced or risk will be reduced for funds that seek to provide exposure to certain quantitative investment characteristics ("factors"). Exposure to such investment factors may detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, a fund may seek to maintain exposure to the targeted investment factors and not adjust to target different factors, which could result in losses.