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...Fink said big pension funds that have large allocations to private equity have been particularly reluctant to invest because those funds have been slow to return money to investors amid a slowdown in takeovers...
...At the end of December, index funds and ETFs accounted for $6.6tn in assets under management, two-thirds of BlackRock’s $10tn in assets....
...European investor allocations to environmental, social and governance exchange traded funds slowed down in the first quarter of 2024 as the sector endures an “existential crisis”, Morningstar research shows...
...Few have drawn more interest than BlackRock’s first fund to be tokenised on a blockchain, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (Buidl)....
...When price discovery evaporates, poor capital allocation decisions are not appropriately rewarded....
...BlackRock’s change in allocations in its popular model portfolios led to a surge on the equity side as well, according to Morningstar analyst Ryan Jackson....
...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....
...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...
...But BlackRock said last month that he would seek re-election for one more year to oversee the integration of BlackRock’s $12.5bn acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners....
...Asked for comment on the market share trends, BlackRock pointed to its $220bn in global inflows in 2022 and said it was on pace to be a global inflows leader again in 2023....
...But BlackRock hit back hard after the Texas fund made its announcement....
...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 to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5bn BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink has been searching for years for the right private markets partner to make his $10tn money manager as formidable...
...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...
...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....
...BlackRock said in a statement that “since the underlying securities in DYNF are large-cap US equities, and some of the most liquid stocks in the market, liquidity was not a challenge when the fund was added...
...In the 10 years to the end of June 2023, 77 per cent of actively-managed sterling-denominated UK equity funds had failed to beat the index and 95 per cent of global equity funds had done the same....
...BlackRock and Schroders said they would use credit as collateral for gilt repo in separately managed accounts for LDI funds....
...Overall, the global ETF industry recorded net inflows of $965bn last year, according to data from BlackRock, up from $867bn in 2022. This was the second-highest figure on record, behind 2021’s $1.3tn....
...BlackRock manages two of the five-largest US ESG funds, according to Morningstar, and has more than $48bn of ESG assets under management....
...In infrastructure, BlackRock will combine its existing $50bn business with GIP under the leadership of Ogunlesi, who will join BlackRock’s global executive committee and board....
...’s recently announced deal to buy Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading asset manager in private infrastructure investment, is a striking move....
...Earlier this month, BlackRock made a splashy deal to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5bn....
...This was once a relatively simple process when dealing with a low-cost passive ETF product from Vanguard, iShares and State Street Global Advisors....
...BRK 0-1 HMRC: BlackRock has lost an appeal relating to UK tax it sought to reclaim from HM Revenue & Customs on its $13.5bn acquisition of Barclays Global Investors back in 2009....
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