BlackRock collaborates with boards of trustees and their investment professionals to help uphold and secure the benefits pledged to members and their families. Through a variety of investment strategies and a dedicated team of industry specialists, BlackRock is well positioned to assist trustees in fortifying and sustaining the fund's future.
Taft-Hartley & multi-employer plans
Building America: investing in infrastructure and the workforce
Infrastructure-related jobs in skilled trades are projected to grow notably faster than the national average over the next decade, but retirements and limited training capacity risk leaving critical roles unfilled.
Powering the next generation of America workers
BlackRock is launching a national $100 million philanthropic initiative to train and support workers for careers in skilled trades.
How we serve Taft-Hartley & multi-employer plans
Custom solutions
Bespoke solutions that span asset classes from public to private markets.
Golden age of income
Seeking stable streams of income via targeted strategies within our global fixed income platform.
Navigating private markets
To generate consistency, we partner with clients and take a new approach to illiquid assets given unique deal sourcing capabilities, scale and access to global resources.
Fundamental and Systematic solutions
Equities solutions across active and passive strategies as a core portfolio allocation.
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Investment strategies for multi-employer funds
With access to BlackRock’s full suite of investment strategies across asset classes, our dedicated team creates a client experience built to address each plan's unique objectives, while minimizing the need for multiple investment managers.
Flexible
Flexible fixed income solutions have the potential to navigate nimbly across sectors to optimize for attractive yield and returns.
Spotlight strategies for multi-employer funds
U.S. investment grade (IG) credit
The Investment Grade Credit strategy seeks to provide diversification within US IG Credit by focusing on relative value assessments in a process to help limit downside exposures.
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
Unconstrained fixed income strategizes, including BlackRock’s Strategic Opportunities Fund, navigate across sectors to optimize for stable attractive returns, while managing downside risks.
Equities
Multi-employer funds seeking to ensure the funded status of their portfolio over the long term 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 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 trustees with insights that aim to deliver consistent, differentiated outperformance.
Spotlight strategies for multi-employer funds
Fundamental
Our fundamental active equity investment strategies leverage BlackRock’s resources in efforts to meet plan 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 alpha.
Index
Index investing strategies, including ETFs and direct index customization, can help reduce portfolio volatility, create liquidity sleeves and reduce costs.
Diversified alternatives
As plans 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 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 deliver favorable performance across a range of investment solutions such as infrastructure, private equity, private credit, hedge funds and real estate.
Spotlight strategies for multi-employer funds
Infrastructure
BlackRock's extensive expertise and strong sourcing capabilities form the cornerstone of a robust infrastructure platform, investing in assets that drive economies around the world.
Real Estate
BlackRock offers a suite of solutions across direct lending, opportunistic and special situation strategies to deliver for clients across market cycles.
Private equity
Our private equity platform takes a holistic approach to portfolios, offering both direct strategies and solutions that align with plan objectives.
Cash and liquidity solutions
Multi-employer funds need effective cash management solutions that offer the liquidity needs for retirement 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 deliver on liquidity needs.
Meet our dedicated team
BlackRock works with plan trustees and their investment partners to navigate the latest regulatory and market trends, ensuring the delivery of promised benefits to workers and their families.
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Capital market assumptions
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