James Bristow

BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies.

FTIML offers an extensive range of funds designed for UK investors and showcases some of the firm’s strongest investment capabilities in key markets such as the UK, Europe and the US, as well as in broader global fixed income and equity.

BIL is an active manager which performs in-house fundamental and technical research, supplemented by external research, to construct portfolios. They primarily invest in growth and value stocks of small-, mid- and large-cap companies employing a thematic investment approach. The firm manages all non-US equity portfolios from Edinburgh, communicating regularly with the US equity and fixed-income management teams to capitalize on global themes, including macroeconomic interest rate trends and information on multinationals.

Functions as a College/University

BIM-UK utilizes their market insights, global reach, proprietary technology, culture of information sharing and focus on risk management to deliver performance in all market environments. For their equity investments, the firm utilizes style-neutral (core and high performance), value and growth processes. They have combined a top-down and bottom-up approach for their fixed-income and balanced products. The fixed-income investment team specializes in market segments and focuses on quantitative analysis.