The Diversified Strategies team takes a top-down macro research driven approach to asset allocation. Fundamental research is complemented by innovative implementation and a robust risk framework.
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Why BlackRock’s Diversified Strategies Team?
The Diversified Strategies team seeks to deliver macro-driven, regime-aware total return solutions across a global opportunity set spanning equities, fixed income, alternatives, currencies, and cash, designed to integrate seamlessly within clients’ existing allocations.
Dynamic asset allocation reflects high-conviction macro views, positioning portfolios for changing cyclical conditions. This is complemented by secular thematic exposures targeting the structural forces reshaping markets. Together, these differentiated and complementary alpha engines help enhance diversification and provide scalable access to the team’s capabilities across both multi-asset and targeted single-asset strategies.
Diversified Strategies: Our Edge
Macro Insight That Anticipates Markets
Forward-looking macro research grounded in a deep understanding of how geopolitics, policy, and financial markets interact, seeking to identify opportunities before they’re priced in.
Depth and Precision of Expression
A broad and flexible investment toolkit, aiming to enable the team to express high-conviction views with laser-like precision across assets, regions, and time horizons.
Seeking Alpha Across Regimes
A constant pulse on global markets, paired with strategic conviction, seeking to unlock structural alpha while actively navigating short-term dislocations.
Investment theory
The Diversified Strategies team focuses on the goal of delivering positive returns to clients through active asset allocation decisions. As such, the team focuses on establishing a ’top-down’ macro-economic view of the world and building portfolios that have a diversified set of research-driven investment ideas consistent with that view. The team fundamentally believes that there are better ways to gain exposure to asset markets than simply “buying the market”.
More robust ways of gaining ‘market exposure’ can include:
- Developing more risk-efficient ways of getting the “market” exposure, or capturing the risk premium in market
- Exploiting inefficiencies and mis-pricings within and between asset classes via active asset allocation decisions
- A combination of the above
Our investment theory is based on the following fundamental beliefs:
Macro-economic analysis
A strong understanding of the macro-economic environment is critical for building multi-asset portfolios that are able to navigate different market environments.
Risk awareness
Detailed understanding of risk is vital in helping avoid poor investment decisions.
Efficient implementation
A good investment idea counts for nothing if it is not efficiently implemented.
Investment process
The Diversified Strategies team employs a robust and scalable investment process that is underpinned by the team’s expertise across a wide opportunity set in addition to leveraging insights from the breadth of BlackRock’s investment platform. The process has 3 distinct stages:
This information should not be relied upon as research, investment advice, or a recommendation regarding any products, strategies, or any security in particular. This is for illustrative and informational purposes and is subject to change. It has not been approved by any regulatory authority or securities regulator. There is no guarantee that a positive investment outcome will be achieved. There is no guarantee that research capabilities will contribute to a positive investment outcome. Diversification and asset allocation may not fully protect you from market risk. Investment philosophy is subject to change and for illustrative purpose only. Source: BlackRock, as of 12 March 26.
Capabilities
The Diversified Strategies team manages outcome-oriented and benchmark- or peer group-aware strategies for institutional and wealth clients globally. The platform includes BlackRock multi-asset mutual funds and bespoke wrapped mandates, alongside standalone, modular capabilities that carve out distinct components of its multi-asset expertise, including thematic equity strategies, core equity with protection overlays, and step-in strategies that transition portfolios from fixed income to progressively higher equity exposure over time.
All strategies are underpinned by a unified research framework, with implementation tailored to client objectives, risk parameters, sustainable investing requirements and, where appropriate, specific guidelines. The team brings over 20 years of experience managing assets for a broad client base, including wealth, defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes, charities and endowments, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies.
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