Equity

BlackRock manages a full range of equity funds that span the risk/return spectrum and which reflect three approaches to equity investing: Index, Scientific Active, and Fundamental strategies. These approaches are differentiated in terms of the level of tracking error and degree of manager discretion applied. Investment teams benefit from open access to firmwide proprietary research, the sharing of investment ideas, and BlackRock's Risk and Quantitative Analysis Group. This group collaborates with investment teams to manage various types of risk (investment, market, liquidity, counterparty, and operational) and improve the investment process.