As a fiduciary to our clients, BlackRock equips Canadian pension plans with access to the full spectrum of our capabilities. Across asset classes, we offer a full suite of public and private market investment strategies across asset classes, liquidity profiles and return objectives.
Public pensions
Alternative strategies
Today’s pension investors seek to enhance returns and diversify from traditional public markets exposure to achieve and maintain fully-funded status. Our alternatives platform is designed to deliver differentiated performance and help clients.
Opportunities in fixed income
Allocations in fixed income can help pension plans preserve and grow their retirement funds, promoting a sustainable source of income balanced with capital appreciation.
How we serve public pensions
We provide public pension investors full access to the breadth and depth of BlackRock to help each client achieve their unique investment goals:
• Whole portfolio solutions and partial or full portfolio outsourcing
• Integrated alternatives platform that is scalable, transparent and technology-enabled
• Stable streams of income via targeted strategies within our global fixed income platform
• Risk mitigation through our Aladdin technology platform
• Custom solutions that span asset classes from public to private markets
• Bespoke portfolio analysis and peer risk studies from our Client Insight Unit
Seizing the moment in fixed income markets
Our annual public pensions peer risk analysis assessed and underlying drivers of risk and return of more than 120 plans. While the implications vary by plan, one thing stands out: many plans have an opportunity to increase their allocations to fixed income.
Investing strategies for pension plans
With access to BlackRock’s extensive suite of investment strategies across asset classes, our dedicated pension team creates a tailored client experience built to address each client's unique objectives.
Fixed income
Pensions investors seeking to achieve positive returns with historically lower risk than other asset classes are utilizing fixed income strategies within their broader portfolio.
With Rick Rieder as BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock helps pension investors navigate the entire fixed income spectrum - from active & index, public to private, fundamental & systematic - to help deliver better outcomes, convenience, value and transparency for our clients.
Spotlight strategies for public pensions
Securitized
BlackRock's Securitized Assets platform employs an investment process focused on analytics, and ongoing surveillance at both the borrower and portfolio level.
Unconstrained
BlackRock’s Unconstrained fixed income strategies, including Strategic Income Opportunities Fund (SIO), navigate across sectors to optimize for stable attractive returns, while managing downside risk.
Diversified alternatives
As public pensions look to expand beyond traditional allocations in search of diversified alpha generation, with features such as potential capital appreciation and uncorrelated income streams, alternative strategies are playing an increasingly critical role in their portfolios.
At BlackRock we believe that the need for an approach to alternative investing that is scalable, disciplined, integrated, technology-enabled and transparent has never been greater. BlackRock's alternatives platform is designed to deliver favorable performance across a range of investment solutions such as private credit, private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds.
Spotlight strategies for public pensions
Private credit
BlackRock offers a suite of solutions across private credit, including direct lending, opportunistic and special situations investments strategies.
Private equity
Our private equity platform takes a holistic approach to private equity portfolios, offering both direct strategies and portfolio solutions that align with pension objectives and seek to deliver persistent outperformance.
Infrastructure
BlackRock’s global reach, deep experience and sourcing prowess make the foundations of a powerful infrastructure platform, enabling investments in the trends shaping the world of tomorrow.
Cash and liquidity solutions
Pensions investors need effective cash management solutions that offer the liquidity needs for retirement while offering the potential for an enhanced yield profile hedged against risk.
BlackRock offers investment strategies and vehicles such as money market accounts (MMAs), short duration strategies, ETFs and separately managed accounts (SMAs) to deliver for liquidity needs.
Equities
Pensions seeking to ensure the funded status of their portfolio over the long term and/or exposure to specific sectors in their diversified portfolio often look for investment opportunities across BlackRock’s extensive equity platform.
Our fundamental and systematic equity strategies offer public pension investors curated access to global markets as well as key investment insights. BlackRock’s equity investors and researchers combine company-specific research, innovative proprietary modeling and industry analysis to provide clients with insights that aim to deliver consistent, differentiated outperformance.
Fundamental
Our fundamental active equity investment strategies leverage BlackRock’s resources in efforts to meet client demands for higher alpha and outcome-oriented strategies.
Systematic
BlackRock’s systematic investment platform combines cutting-edge technology, scientific research and human insight in the relentless pursuit of investment performance.
Index
Index investing strategies, including ETFs and direct index customization, can help reduce portfolio volatility, create liquidity sleeves and reduce costs.
Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO)
BlackRock’s OCIO team aligns the firm’s investment expertise, robust research platform and advanced technology to help clients achieve their investment goals.
Whether it’s accessing industry leading alternatives, exploring options to improve investment returns, building mission-aligned portfolios or increasing transparency and flexibility, we begin every client relationship with a relationship seeking a deep understanding of their unique needs.
Dedicated CIO model
Our CIOs are aligned with specific client segments, helping them solve specific challenges.
Broad investment toolkit
Investing in today’s markets requires a full toolkit of investment capabilities, from active, index, factors to alternatives—all of which BlackRock can provide.
Daily monitoring
We help clients make timely investment decisions and use our Aladdin® technology to model risks in portfolios.
Cost-effective partnership
We serve as an extension of a client’s staff to help free up their time to focus on what’s important.
Tools and resources
Client Insight Unit (CIU)
CIU leverages BlackRock's Aladdin® platform and expertise across the firm to deliver dedicated portfolio analysis that helps clients reach their end goals and develop solutions reflective of their core philosophy.
BlackRock Educational Academy (BEA)
BEA is an industry leading academic platform providing real time education from our suite of experts. We cover a broad range of topics that suit your learning style and schedules, through our on-demand library, in-person and virtual events.
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Our public pensions team
Donald Perault
Head of U.S. Pensions, Americas Institutional Business
Latest insights for public pensions
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