KATE CHENG: My name is Kate Cheng I’m a graduate analyst at BlackRock Client Solutions. Our team does a lot of risk advisory and investment advisory services to the largest institutional investors at BlackRock. At BlackRock, it’s a tradition to have all the graduate analysts from all over the world go to New York for an orientation. And afterwards all the graduates would go back to their home offices and start work.
What was surprising to me about BlackRock’s culture is that everybody is really friendly. At first, I felt that I didn’t really know much, and I needed a lot of help from the other associates. And they were very friendly and patient with me. I built relationships with the New York client solutions team.
Afterwards, I came back to Hong Kong, and I started to work with my team here. And being a native Hong Kong person, seeing that I can bring that skill set back and serve the clients in the APAC region. It’s a privilege to work for client solutions, where it’s really a one BlackRock team and can mobilize other teams to achieve a common assignment.