Capital Markets

BlackRock Alternative Investors’ Capital Markets team uses innovation, experience and insight to access investment opportunities that can provide exposure to distinctive sources of alpha and beta.

Global scale
Innovation
Disciplined risk management

Our capital markets and opportunistic product efforts are supported by the infrastructure and resources we offer as a global asset manager.

We create investment opportunities within existing or prospective alternative mandates with the support of BlackRock’s global investment platform.

Our approach to risk combines the expertise of dedicated risk professionals and the use of proprietary technology. Our goal is to maintain a level of risk that is deliberate, diversified and appropriately scaled.

In recent history we have either raised capital for or advised on over US$40 billion of investments (as of 31 December 2010). Some examples include:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (raised capital)
A large multinational bank (raised capital)
Distressed credit and mortgage opportunities (raised capital)
The Canadian Non-Bank Asset-Backed Commercial Paper restructuring (advisory)
BlackRock’s range of capital markets strategies includes:
Advisory assignments
Credit strategies
Government-financed strategies
Mortgage strategies
Sector-focused strategies
Structured credit