BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund
Turn Asian equities into a high-income opportunity.
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Important Information
i. BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund seeks to generate a high level of income and provide capital growth. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in the equity securities of companies domiciled in, or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in Asia Pacific.
Important Information
i. BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund seeks to generate a high level of income and provide capital growth. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in the equity securities of companies domiciled in, or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in Asia Pacific.
ii. The Fund's investments in equities could incur significant losses due to higher fluctuation of equity values. The Fund's income-oriented investment strategy, which seeks to preserve capital growth may reduce its future income potential.
iii. The Fund is subject to currency risk and currency conversion risk including Renminbi denominated classes, geographical concentration risk in the Asia Pacific region, emerging market risk, foreign investments restrictions risk and liquidity risk. The Fund is subject to quantitative model risk, as the proprietary models used may not perform as expected or result in effective investment decisions.
iv. Class 6 Shares pay dividends gross of expenses and/or from capital at the Directors’ discretion. Negative interest rate differentials may decrease the dividends paid. Paying dividends gross of expenses may result in more income being available for distribution; however these shares may effectively pay dividends from capital and may amount to a partial return or withdrawal of an investor’s original investment or capital gains. All declared dividends result in an immediate reduction in the NAV price of the share class on the ex-dividend date.
v. The Fund may use derivatives for hedging and for investment purposes. However, usage for investment purposes will not be extensive. The Fund may suffer losses from its derivatives usage. Investment in covered call options may limit potential gains on the underlying assets, which may adversely affect the Fund’s value.
vi. The value of the Fund can be volatile and can go down substantially within a short period of time. It is possible that a certain amount of your investment could be lost.
vii. Investors should not make investment decisions based on this document alone. Investors should refer to the Prospectus and Key Facts Statement for details including risk factors.
IMPORTANT:
• The Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund seeks to generate a high level of income and provide capital growth. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in the equity securities of companies domiciled in, or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in Asia Pacific.
• The Fund's investments in equities could incur significant losses due to higher fluctuation of equity values. The Fund's income-oriented investment strategy, which seeks to preserve capital growth may reduce its future income potential.
• The Fund is subject to currency risk and currency conversion risk including Renminbi denominated classes, geographical concentration risk in the Asia Pacific region, emerging market risk, foreign investments restrictions risk and liquidity risk. The Fund is subject to quantitative model risk, as the proprietary models used may not perform as expected or result in effective investment decisions.
• Class 6 Shares pay dividends gross of expenses and/or from capital at the Directors’ discretion. Negative interest rate differentials may decrease the dividends paid. Paying dividends gross of expenses may result in more income being available for distribution; however these shares may effectively pay dividends from capital and may amount to a partial return or withdrawal of an investor’s original investment or capital gains. All declared dividends result in an immediate reduction in the NAV price of the share class on the ex-dividend date.
• The Fund may use derivatives for hedging and for investment purposes. However, usage for investment purposes will not be extensive. The Fund may suffer losses from its derivatives usage. Investment in covered call options may limit potential gains on the underlying assets, which may adversely affect the Fund’s value.
• The value of the Fund can be volatile and can go down substantially within a short period of time. It is possible that a certain amount of your investment could be lost.
• Investors should not make investment decisions based on this document alone. Investors should refer to the Prospectus and Key Facts Statement for details including risk factors.
What if your income strategy could do more: aiming to generate compelling income while keeping you invested as markets evolve?
Meet the BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund, which seeks to bring together competitive income, regional growth exposure and systematic investing expertise.
The fund offers 3 key benefits:
First, a competitive income target. It seeks to deliver competitive income by combining dividends from Asia Pacific companies with an option overlay strategy.
Second, access to Asia Pacific’s growth potential. As a high-income strategy with a beta of 1.01, the Fund seeks to fully participate in the long-term trajectory of Asia Pacific equities – across growth themes such as the AI buildout, energy transition, consumption growth, and shifting supply chains.
Third, broader, more flexible access. Unlike many traditional Asian equity strategies, the Fund invests across the wider Asia Pacific region, including Japan and Australia, giving you access to more markets, sectors and dividend cycles to capture income opportunities as they emerge.
Behind it all is BlackRock’s Systematic platform. Asia Pacific’s breadth, diversity and depth of data make it well suited to systematic investing, helping uncover opportunities across markets with discipline, scale and agility.
For compelling income today and the potential to participate in Asia’s future growth, consider the BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund.
1BlackRock, as of 31 Aug 2026.
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What if your income strategy could do more?
See how the Fund brings together income potential, Asia Pacific growth exposure and BlackRock’s systematic investing expertise.
Turning Asia Pacific’s complexity into opportunity
Asia Pacific spans thousands of companies across different markets, languages and economic cycles. BlackRock’s systematic platform helps the Fund navigate this complexity, drawing on a broad range of information and local insights to uncover opportunities across the region.
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Local language documents analysed
From media sources to company filings, capturing sentiment in local languages builds a deeper picture of companies and markets.
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Locations across Asia Pacific
Local nuances, varied data availability and cross-sectional dispersion across markets may create selective return opportunities for those that know where to look.
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Asia Pacific equities assessed every day
Thousands of companies are evaluated each day, helping the team turn a vast investment universe into a focused portfolio of high-conviction ideas.
Transforming how we see the world
Just think about how much data is out there and how it escalates rapidly. In 2024, Amazon.com saw 2.57 billion visits on average per month, while Alibaba generated over US$74billion in e-commerce sales. And every minute of every day, we have about 97 million WhatsApp messages, and 500 hours of new videos on YouTube. And it goes on.
The funny thing is, we don’t just want data or information. Instead, we want to know what it all means, why it matters to us, and to be able to use the insights we have to predict outcomes
At BlackRock, our systematic investing platform has been doing this for over 35 years with a track record of innovation, creativity and reinvention. Our diverse team of 200+ financial professionals, academics and data scientists, blends the best of humans and machines to unlock new ways to generate differentiated outcomes
They harness cutting-edge technology such as AI and machine learning to review 800-plus data signals, assessing the fundamentals, sentiment, macro, and ESG characteristics of thousands of securities, at scale, and on a daily basis. They can then analyze and combine traditional inputs along with unconventional data sources in faster and more effective ways than any human could ever do.
So, how does this work in the real world?
Since 2007, we have been using natural language processing techniques to capture local text in the form of regulatory filings, news articles, broker reports, social media updates, and other sources to gather timely, nuanced views about a company’s outlook at scale
For example, our model can identify early investment signals by using sentiment analysis, tracking the number of positive and negative words included in a document, and assigning an overall sentiment score based on word counts.
Our approach also constantly evolves. We now apply transformer-based large language models like ChatGPT. These can process long sequences of elements – such as words in a sentence – accounting for the relationship between each individual word with other words, and focusing on the most important points.
And language is not a barrier as we can read text with 7 major languages, which allows us to get local context.
Another source of AI-led alpha might come from the physical world. Here, we can use AI as a tool to compile and analyze location-specific data – such as GPS signals from cell phones, and more to track consumer traffic. Or we can track trucking routes across a country, based on a view that heightened traffic may be a proxy for increased company fundamentals like future sales.
AI and data availability also allow us to better understand corporate intentions and macro dynamics. For example, in the US we tracked millions of online job postings to gauge the health of a company or to target future growth areas based on the skill-sets in demand. The rate of hiring can also be a proxy for activity at the company, industry, or country level.
Yet despite this outlook, machines will not take over. Human input and analysis is a critical component, and fundamental and classic information still have a major role to play. We call this a human-machine-team approach to investing.
Investing evolved
Harness systematic investing for a new approach to income
Systematic investing combines large-scale data analysis, advanced technology and human expertise, to evaluate many companies consistently and identify patterns that traditional research alone may not capture.
Frequently asked questions
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The BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity High Income Fund is an equity income fund that invests across Asia Pacific. It seeks to provide income and potential capital growth by combining dividends from companies with premiums generated through a covered call strategy.
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Systematic investing uses data-driven insights, scientific testing and advanced computer models to evaluate investments and build portfolios around specific objectives. BlackRock combines these tools with human expertise to turn research and data into investment opportunities.
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Asia Pacific contains many markets, languages, sectors and companies. A systematic approach can analyse this broad opportunity set consistently and at scale, while investment professionals oversee portfolio construction and risk.
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Asia Pacific equities may give investors access to a wide range of companies, economies and long-term growth themes. They may also help diversify a portfolio, although diversification does not guarantee returns or protect against losses.
