BlackRock Income Trust

NYSE:BKTUnited States

BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to manage a portfolio of high-quality securities to achieve both preservation of capital and high monthly income. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 65% of its assets in mortgage-backed securities. The Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities that are issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its agencies or instrumentalities or rated at the time of investment either AAA by S&P Global Ratings or Aaa by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. The Fund may invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives. The Fund invests in various sectors, including agency mortgages, United States government-related, securitized products, cash and/or derivatives and others. The Fund's manager is BlackRock Advisors, LLC.

Contact Information

Headquarters

MUTUAL FUND DEPARTMENT 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAYWILMINGTON, DE, United States 19809

Phone

800-882-0052

Fax

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Executives

Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Trustee

Robert Hubbard

President, Chief Executive Officer, Trustee

John Perlowski

Non-Executive Independent Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustee

W. Carl Kester

Chief Financial Officer

Trent Walker

Chief Compliance Officer

Aaron Wasserman