As a fiduciary to our clients, BlackRock equips corporate pensions with access to the full spectrum of our capabilities, from liquid to private market investment strategies across asset classes, risk management and technology solutions, to help safeguard retiree assets.
Corporate pensions
Opportunities in fixed income and LDI
Allocations in fixed income such as Liability-Driven Investing (LDI) can help corporate pensions preserve and grow their retirement funds by targeting a sustainable source of income balanced with capital appreciation.
Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO)
We leverage our investment and technology platforms to provide OCIO services and whole-portfolio solutions that help corporate pensions meet their objectives while alleviating day-to-day burdens.
How we serve corporate pensions
We provide corporate pension investors full access to the breadth and depth of BlackRock to help each client achieve their unique investment goals:
• Comprehensive OCIO services and whole portfolio solutions
• Stable streams of income via targeted strategies within our global fixed income platform
• Liability-driven investment solutions to drive stable streams of income
• Portfolio construction analyses from our dedicated Client Solutions Group team
• Cash management through our dedicated cash team to help meet liquidity needs
• Risk mitigation through our Aladdin technology
2025 U.S. corporate pensions themes
In this year’s corporate pensions outlook, we undertake a more comprehensive review of different ways corporate pension plan sponsors can use their surplus.
Investing strategies for corporate pensions
With access to BlackRock’s extensive suite of investment strategies across asset classes, our dedicated pensions team creates a tailored client experience built to address each client's unique objectives.
Fixed income
Corporate pensions seeking to achieve positive returns with historically lower risk than other asset classes are utilizing fixed income strategies such as Liability Driven investing (LDI) within their broader portfolio.
With Rick Rieder as BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock helps 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 corporate pensions
Core and Core Plus
BlackRock's Core and Core Plus strategies are designed to seek consistent, attractive active returns across all market cycles via a dynamic multi-sector approach.
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.
Securitized
BlackRock's Securitized Assets platform employs an investment process focused on analytics, and ongoing surveillance at both the borrower and portfolio level.
Liability-driven investing (LDI)
Our LDI platform provides defined benefit plan sponsors with the power and flexibility of one of the most comprehensive fixed income businesses in the world, combined with proprietary asset-liability focused technology.
Investments
LDI investors require both diversifying credit investments and capital-efficient rates strategies.
Technology and innovation
LDI investors can benefit from both a direct license to our risk management technology and the ability to engage our LDI team, tools and reporting.
Custom liability expertise
As your plan’s LDI strategy evolves over time, our services keep up with your changing needs.
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 expertise in liability-driven investing, portfolio construction tailored to preserve funded-status levels or increasing transparency and flexibility, we begin every client relationship by 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 to 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.
Equities
Corporate pensions seeking resilient medium-to-long-term capital appreciation 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 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.
Diversified alternatives
As corporate pensions look to expand beyond traditional allocations in search of alpha generation, such as 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 seek outperformance across a range of investment solutions such as private credit, private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds.
Spotlight strategies for corporate 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 corporate pension objectives and seeks 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
Corporate pensions investors need effective cash management solutions that offer the liquidity needs for retirement plans in addition to broader corporate solutions 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 provide liquidity options.
Tools and resources
Client Solutions Group (CSG)
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.
More tools and resources
Latest insights for corporate pensions
U.S. LDI Pension MarketWatch
Read our latest Monthly LDI Pension MarketWatch where we look at estimated average funded status and monthly market moves including treasury yields, corporate credit and inflation markets.
Common questions
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