Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...BlackRock has rolled out two actively managed equity exchange traded funds for European investors. The Ireland-domiciled iShares World Equity High Income and iShares U.S....
...Few have drawn more interest than BlackRock’s first fund to be tokenised on a blockchain, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (Buidl)....
...debt....
...But BlackRock hit back hard after the Texas fund made its announcement....
...“We have made it clear from the outset that we do not expect our strategy, or indeed any strategy, to outperform the market or even make a positive return in all reporting periods and market conditions,”...
...Historically, BlackRock has managed its ETF products separately from other funds, a legacy of the 2009 purchase of the iShares index fund business from Barclays....
...BlackRock is seeking to push further into higher-margin alternatives strategies....
...While high-frequency traders and hedge funds have become increasingly interested in bitcoin ETFs and the potential for arbitrage, the bulk of new assets moving BlackRock’s new cryptocurrency products appear...
...The continued popularity of income-generating ETFs, active fixed income ETFs amid interest-rate uncertainty and financial adviser interest in core strategies from firms such as Capital Group and JPMorgan...
...BlackRock’s market capitalisation is $118bn....
...BlackRock and Schroders said they would use credit as collateral for gilt repo in separately managed accounts for LDI funds....
...“There was a huge outflow from ESGU and into QUAL as a result of BlackRock changing their weighting,” said Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research for North America at Morningstar....
...BlackRock has appointed BNY Mellon as an additional custodian for €673bn Dublin-domiciled iShares exchange traded funds, splitting custody for the business between two post-trade service providers....
...“This is not a complex derivative-type strategy, the risks of which are unknown,” Kerr argues....
...BlackRock manages two of the five-largest US ESG funds, according to Morningstar, and has more than $48bn of ESG assets under management....
...While the percentage has moderated — US and Europe-domiciled EM ETFs accounted for 18 per cent of the total in February, according to Karim Chedid, head of investment strategy for BlackRock’s iShares arm...
...“BlackRock has downplayed the extent to which ESG considerations drive its investment strategies across all holdings, even in non-ESG funds,” it added. Read more about the Tennessee lawsuit here...
...More than half of BlackRock’s $10tn in assets under management are retirement savings, including institutional pension funds, corporate defined contribution plans known as 401(k)s and individual accounts...
...The lawsuit goes on to claim that “BlackRock has downplayed the extent to which ESG considerations drive its investment strategies across all holdings, even in non-ESG funds” and “overstated the extent to...
..., broad-based strategies, said Bryan Armour, Morningstar’s director of passive research for North America....
...BlackRock Fund Advisors, the investment adviser to the ETF, agreed to waive a portion of its management fee through February 28, 2025, the filing notes....
...,” a BlackRock spokesperson said....
...BlackRock said in a note that it was dropping its corporate membership because it believes the phase 2 strategy, which takes effect in June, conflicted with US laws requiring money managers to act solely...
...“BlackRock was mentioned by some candidates in last night’s debate more than inflation or the national debt,” Fink wrote in a LinkedIn post on Thursday....
International Edition