
Here for you in Switzerland

For a future we all want to live in
Investing capital, managing assets, providing for the future. We have been serving you in Switzerland since 1996. We have made sustainability our investment standard and offer a wide range of different investment options to secure your financial well-being.
Our core activities in Switzerland include distributing investment products through banks and supporting pension funds and insurance companies in their asset management. Whether you want to invest with us as a banking client or increase the potential returns on your pension capital through your pension fund, your financial well-being is close to our hearts.
A sustainable future for everyone
Mirjam Staub-Bisang on BlackRock's progress in Switzerland and how we help you invest in a better, more sustainable future.

As an asset manager, we act in a fiduciary capacity, managing the capital that the Swiss entrust to us through their banks or pension funds. We see ourselves as an expert partner, working side-by-side with our clients. We support banks and pension funds in areas such as mastering the increasingly complex and volatile global investment markets and in meeting the growing regulatory requirements.
We have been on the ground with a Swiss team of over 100 employees for 25 years and aim to create the best conditions to help our clients achieve their investment goals.
But there is more to a secure future than just capital. The future should be worth living for all of us and that's why sustainability is central to BlackRock. One of the areas we focus on as part of exercising our shareholder rights and engaging regularly with companies, is sustainable corporate governance and business practices. This includes presenting a plan to adapt business processes and activities that is compatible with the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2ºCelsius in order to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions globally by 2050. We require this of all companies in which we are invested on behalf of our clients.
At the same time, it is also about ensuring that we are all aware of our environmental and social responsibilities. BlackRock stands by this responsibility and is committed to it, with over 16'000 employees globally - as well as locally in Switzerland.
Join us in paving the way for a future worth living.
Yours
Mirjam Staub-Bisang
Country Head BlackRock Switzerland

Investing for financial well-being
Our vision is to help our clients invest with sustainability and social issues in mind. Our aim is to help every individual achieve financial well-being. We do this by offering our clients investment opportunities in which you can invest via your bank or pension fund. A such, our intention is to make investing easier and more accessible for everyone.
The majority of the capital we manage serves to secure your retirement. The trust you place in your pension fund or your bank - and thus in us - goes hand in hand with great responsibility. We fulfil this responsibility by acting as a link between you and your bank or pension fund. We embrace this fiduciary duty and provide your bank or pension fund with comprehensive investment solutions, which ultimately have an impact on your assets.

Sustainability as an investment standard
We regard climate risks as investment risks and therefore promote sustainable investment. This is because incorporating sustainability criteria into investment processes can help build more resilient portfolios and generate better, risk-adjusted returns over the long term.
At an operational level, BlackRock is already carbon neutral. As a company, we have taken further internal actions to promote continued transition to a net-zero emissions world. This includes imposing the same transparency standards on ourselves that we require other companies to meet.
We are convinced that climate-related changes bring unprecedented investment opportunities. That is why we want to actively support our clients in preparing their portfolios for a climate-neutral world.
Sustainable investment products play a crucial role in this change. We make them affordable and available to all our clients, including you.

Acting out of responsibility for people and society
For us, taking responsibility for the future also means making a contribution to Switzerland.
We are aware of our size and our role model function and therefore try to work for the common and social well-being of all. Our employees play a central role in this. We work with various non-profit organisations to promote inclusion and sustainability.

Insieme
In July 2019, 30 BlackRock employees volunteered for 107 hours with Insieme at the Züri Fäscht. Together with our Grant Programme, this enabled us to secure over CHF 10’000 for Insieme.
Pro Juventute
For the Swiss organisation Pro Juventute, we spend a whole day in a secondary school in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland with two teams of four supporting young people in their apprenticeship application training. We provide tips and feedback on the interviews and the corresponding application documents.
Pfuusbus Zurich
In February 2019, seven BlackRock employees cooked dinner for two evenings at the Pfuusbus to care for and interact with homeless people in Zurich.

Our team: At home in Zurich & Geneva
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Long local roots |
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You can find more information about what we stand for here >
1Source: BlackRock in Switzerland (BlackRock, 2021), 29 billion US dollars, as of 01.04.2021
Our history
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BlackRock's history in Switzerland begins. 10 employees start work in the centre of Zurich. |
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Ten years later, the BlackRock office opens in Geneva. At the same time, BlackRock acquires Merrill Lynch. |
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The data-driven risk management platform Aladdin® helps our clients optimise their investment portfolios. In 2009, we are awarded the first Aladdin mandate with a leading Swiss insurance company. |
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BlackRock acquires Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, establishing a strong private equity and infrastructure investment presence in Switzerland. The acquisition consolidates BlackRock's position as the leading provider of private market solutions in continental Europe. |
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BlackRock acquires the ETF business of Crédit Suisse. BlackRock thus expands the ETF division with iShares in addition to the active fund business. |
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BlackRock becomes authorised as a FINMA-regulated fund management company. This paves the way for BlackRock to launch Swiss-domiciled funds via its own Swiss iShares platform. |
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BlackRock gets involved locally and has been supporting the Insieme organisation since 2016, whether at the Züri Fäscht or at the annual joint Christmas dinner. |
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Portfolio analyses directly from Switzerland: with the BlackRock Portfolio Analysis & Solutions Team, BPAS for short. Switzerland has been represented in the strategic team since 2019 and offers institutional clients a locally based portfolio analysis approach. |
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12 ETFs and 9 index funds on the Swiss BlackRock investment platform. The platform's investment volume has grown to 14.8 billion Swiss francs2 to date. |

Today
Invest in Switzerland. Invest for Switzerland.
2Source: *Source: BlackRock in Switzerland (BlackRock, 2021), 16 billion US dollars, as of 08.04.
3Source: What we stand for. BlackRock's contributions in Switzerland (BlackRock, 2020), 151 billion US dollars, as of 01.04.2021.
BlackRock in Switzerland - who we are
BlackRock opens up. Get to know some of our representatives in Switzerland.
Country Head BlackRock Switzerland
