Retirement is changing, with people living longer and investing in more challenging markets. As a global defined contribution investment-only provider, BlackRock provides a breadth of capabilities and depth of knowledge across asset management, plan design, and participant communications.
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10 years of Read on Retirement®
This year’s survey provides insights into the confidence, concerns and behaviors of workplace savers, plan sponsors and retirees to help build a more secure retirement for everyone.
Retirement is changing
With people living longer and investing in more challenging markets, workers are looking for help answering the question, how much of my nest egg can I spend in retirement… and not run out?
The power of private markets in DC plans
How we're thinking about private markets in target date strategies
Why defined contribution plans work with BlackRock
Innovative solutions
We pioneered the target date strategy to help people better prepare for retirement without the guesswork of managing market ups and downs.
Designing lasting futures
We’re creating lasting options for retirement that can help deliver better risk-adjusted returns and outcomes.
Sharpening plan design
Our technology analyses plan features and connects the decisions made today to help participants better prepare for retirement tomorrow.
Our investment capabilities
Defined contribution plans have become the primary way most Americans save for retirement. Our dedicated BlackRock defined contribution team can help you design a plan that’s built to help achieve participants’ retirement goals.
Target date strategies
At BlackRock, we’ve created powerful investment solutions like the target date strategy, giving more and more people access to professional management for their retirement savings.
Our target date strategies are designed to deliver a unique combination of extensive experience, advanced strategic insights and flexible investment implementations.
LifePath® target date strategies
With over thirty years of choice built on a foundation of research and experience, our target date strategies have the potential to help participants navigate uncertainty and prepare for retirement.
Improving outcomes with 403(b) plans
BlackRock has extensive experience working with 403(b) plan sponsors in healthcare, public schools and universities, religious organizations and other tax-exempt organizations.
Retirement income
With a new generation entering retirement dependent almost entirely on savings, we are building solutions for plan sponsors that seek to provide participants with access to retirement income.
BlackRock offers a range of solutions that simplify access to retirement income, including innovative tools, resources, and research-driven investment insights.
Fixed income
Plan sponsors seeking to achieve positive returns with historically lower risk than other asset classes may wish to consider flexible fixed income strategies within their retirement plan investment menu.
BlackRock offers a comprehensive fixed income platform, managing assets across the entire fixed income spectrum – from public to private, fundamental & systematic, active & index – to help deliver better outcomes, convenience, value, and transparency for our clients.
Additional fixed income strategies
Unconstrained
BlackRock’s unconstrained fixed income strategies have the potential to navigate across sectors to optimize for stable attractive returns, while managing downside risk.
Core and Core Plus
Designed to seek consistent, attractive active returns across all market cycles via a dynamic multi-sector approach.
Active equities
Plan sponsors may seek opportunities for growth and diversification in uncertain markets. Active strategies that are low-cost and seek to deliver consistent, incremental alpha may help plan sponsors construct a plan menu that solves potential savings challenges in retirement plans.
BlackRock offers both fundamental and systematic strategies that combine human insight and technology in varying degrees to seek differentiated retirement savings outcomes.
Systematic active equity
BlackRock's systematic active equities platform leverages proprietary techniques with the aim of delivering consistent, differentiated outperformance.
Fundamental active equity
Our fundamental equity investment strategies are designed to meet client demands for higher alpha and outcome-oriented strategies.
Index investing
Plan sponsors seeking more diversified market exposure in their retirement plan menu may consider index strategies that are low cost, with transparent methodology.
BlackRock index investing strategies seek to provide cost-effective access for plan sponsors desired market exposures through both widely used and customized benchmarks, all through our proprietary, in-house Aladdin® technology. In addition to core allocations, clients use our flexible platform of index strategies for a range of investment needs, including risk management, tactical adjustments, and cash equitization.
Cash management
Plan sponsors may seek cash management strategies as a capital preservation option in a retirement plan for participants.
BlackRock considers cash management a unique investment discipline requiring a distinct skill set to effectively hedge against risk and deliver on a client needs. While our investment strategy is conservative by nature, we strive to deliver competitive, consistent returns over time.
Latest insights, research and thought leadership
‘Inside retirement’ is BlackRock’s hub for retirement insights and thought leadership for institutional investors and plan sponsors, featuring market recaps, outlooks, and expert‑led webinars that provide perspective on the evolving retirement landscape.
Resources
Strategic plan design
BlackRock's technology analyses plan features to help you understand, prioritize and advocate for changes to your plan design to help drive better participant outcomes.
Participant engagement
Leverage modern, compelling participant communication resources that are designed to engage and educate participants to help them get the most out of their retirement plan.
Contact our dedicated defined contribution team
Meet our defined contribution team
Our defined contribution team
With regional offices throughout the United States, BlackRock’s dedicated defined contribution team serves as a consultative resource to clients as well as thought leaders on industry trends.
