BlackRock's investment process for global fixed income is subject to the same discipline, oversight, and investment philosophy as all of its fundamental fixed income mandates. BlackRock employs a team-oriented effort to determine relative value within the particular sectors of the global fixed income markets while applying a disciplined risk-managed approach. In managing global fundamental fixed income portfolios, BlackRock seeks to identify multiple sources of value added. BlackRock's risk-managed approach limits active exposure to country, currency, and duration factors relative to the benchmark. The process focuses on exploiting relative value along the yield curve, across sectors, and among individual securities.

BlackRock's fundamental emerging market debt strategy is developed in conjunction with the Investment Strategy Group. The emerging market debt team establishes a fundamental view of world/global economies and market valuations and then seeks more transient valuation anomalies to produce (a greater number of) uncorrelated strategies versus the benchmark index. The input of our non-US equity team plus our sovereign and corporate credit analysts plays a key role in this process.

Strategy Focus Representative Benchmark
Global Bond Broad / Diversified and Sector - Specific Global Aggregate Indices
Global Credit Indices
Global Government Indices
Global Short Indices
Euro Bond Broad / Diversified and Sector - Specific European Aggregate Indices
European Credit Indices
European Government Indices
European Short Indices
Sterling Bond Broad / Diversified and Sector - Specific UK Aggregate Indices
UK Credit Indices
UK Government Indices
UK Short Indices
UK Long Indices
Yen Bond Broad / Diversified Japanese Bond Indices
Australian Dollar Broad / Diversified Australian Bond Indices
Canadian Bond Broad / Diversified Canadian Bond Indices
Emerging Market Debt Broad / Diversified JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index

For inquiries on these products, please email: institutional.canada@blackrock.com.