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BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
In pursuit of our purpose, a focus on long-term sustainability is embedded across our business.
BlackRock manages assets on behalf of diverse clients around the world. We dedicate ourselves, as a fiduciary, to looking after and growing the value of our clients’ assets over the long-term. That includes a focus on sustainability.
ESG integration is the practice of incorporating ESG information into investment decisions to help enhance risk-adjusted returns, regardless of whether or not a strategy has a sustainable mandate. There is no one-size-fits-all approach but at BlackRock we see it as being about making research, data and insights available to all of our portfolio managers, and working with them to identify potential process enhancements across all investment activities.
ESG investment process integration
As a fiduciary investor, we advocate for sound corporate governance and sustainable business practices that result in long-term value creation for our clients.
In-line with our purpose of helping more people experience financial well-being, we embrace a broader set of responsibilities to advocate for public policies that increase financial market transparency, protect investors and facilitate responsible growth of capital markets for all investors.
Our Aladdin technology gives us an enterprise view of BlackRock. In addition, an independent group provides risk oversight of the investment management processes, identifies and helps manage counterparty and enterprise risks, coordinates standards for firm wide investment performance measurement and determines risk management-related analytical and information requests. This includes cybersecurity and information security, where we employ an in-depth, multi-layer strategy of control programs that protect confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
2022 TCFD Report
2021 Sustainability Disclosure (SASB-aligned)
2022 Operating Principles for Impact Management Disclosures
2022 Proxy Statement
2021 SFDR Principal Adverse Sustainability Impact Statement
SFDR Sustainability Risk Statement
BlackRock’s Supplier Code of Conduct & Ethics
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Reporting Framework is a key step in the journey towards building a common language and industry standard for reporting responsible investment (RI) activities. Its primary objective is to enable signatory transparency on RI activities and facilitate dialogue between investors and their clients, beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
As a PRI signatory since 2008, BlackRock has committed to the annual effort of upholding all six PRI principles.
In 2020, BlackRock received A's across every category in the PRI Assessment Report.
Learn more about this year’s results
A strong corporate governance framework is critical for running a sustainable business. Our corporate governance framework is a set of principles, guidelines and practices that support consistent financial performance and long-term value creation for our shareholders.
BlackRock and its Board believe diversity in the boardroom is critical to the success of the Company and its ability to create long-term value for our shareholders. The Board has and will continue to make diversity in gender, ethnicity, age, career experience and geographic location – as well as diversity of mind – a priority when considering director candidates. The diverse backgrounds of our individual directors help the Board better evaluate BlackRock’s management and operations and assess risk and opportunities for the Company’s business model. BlackRock’s commitment to diversity enhances Board involvement in our Company’s multi-faceted long-term strategy and inspires deeper engagement with management, employees and clients around the world.
By focusing on the key elements of our business that we can control, we look to generate differentiated and sustainable organic growth, and demonstrate the benefits of scale through operating leverage while re-investing in our business for future growth. In addition, we are committed to returning excess cash to shareholders through a consistent capital management strategy.
As an asset manager, the long-term sustainability of our firm is heavily dependent on our people. We make a deliberate effort to unify culture, encourage innovation, ensure that we are developing, retaining and recruiting the best talent, align employee incentives and risk taking with those of the firm, and to incorporate inclusion and diversity into all levels of our business. We are also committed to protecting human rights, which we do through policies that seek to provide equal treatment and are dedicated to providing a safe and healthy working environment for all employees.
We strive to cultivate and advance diversity in all forms because we believe a wide range of perspectives and talent is crucial to creating a richer culture for our employees and better results for our diversified global client base.
In the US, we disclose our consolidated EEO-1 reports for the US workforce.
In the UK, we disclose our gender pay gap. All organizations with 250+ employees must report their gender pay data. In our report, we outline the steps we are taking to increase the number of women in our senior-most ranks, and across the firm in general.
Representation data as of January 1, 2022
Hiring and representation figures rounded to the nearest whole number
Senior leaders include Directors and above
“Other” includes Native American or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and “two or more races”.
Senior leaders include the Executive and Non-Executive Management categories that are included in BlackRock’s SASB disclosure. For a more detailed breakdown, please see BlackRock’s SASB disclosure.
We care about our employees’ physical, emotional and financial well-being and design our benefits to support employees in all aspects of their lives. To help employees stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO).
We provide a wide range of opportunities for employees to grow their skills and develop in their careers. From virtual and classroom courses for all employees through to more selective leadership development programs that help us to identify and grow our leaders from within.
Our reputation is one of our most important assets. We hold ourselves to standards that not only meet those required by the laws and regulations that apply to us, but also to our principles, which are rooted in exceeding our clients’ expectations.
As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, BlackRock is committed to aligning our operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to take actions that advance societal goals.
We partner with nonprofits, start-ups, corporations and our employees to create impact in line with our mission to help more people achieve financial security and opportunity, whether in our own communities or on a global scale.
BlackRock recognizes that sound environmental management is central to our business, important to our employees and clients and key to securing our future. In our operations, BlackRock works to decouple company growth from environmental impact, while increasing the efficiency and resiliency of our operations.
BlackRock's expectations of our suppliers and global providers are outlined in its Supplier Code of Conduct and Ethics ("Code"). We have aligned our Code with our broader sustainability and diversity & inclusion commitments and added a set of recommendations for all vendors to consider as business practices.