Inside the Adaptive U.S. Equity 7% Index, a next-generation approach to volatility control and market regime awareness.

When BlackRock’s Index Services team set out to design a new equity index, they didn’t start with a whiteboard, they started with client feedback. Institutional partners and distributors wanted something simple but smarter: an index that could deliver steady exposure to U.S. equities while dynamically managing risk. The combination of rate-regime awareness and adaptive volatility control makes this index different -  Igor Zamkovsky The result came in the form of the BlackRoc