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Dutch pension fund PFZW has dropped a $17 billion mandate with BlackRock, citing concerns over climate risk and sustainable investing priorities.
September 3 -
Through collaboration with BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Franklin Templeton and State Street, professionally managed model portfolios with alternative allocations are available via the firm's unified managed accounts.
June 18 -
Texas and nine other Republican-led states are ratcheting up pressure on Wall Street's diversity programs, asking firms about their policies on hiring and supplier selections as the Trump administration moves to gut DEI.
January 24 -
The founders of HPS will lead a new private financing business unit in BlackRock.
December 3 -
The money managers slashed their support of ESG shareholder proposals amid a Republican-led backlash against sustainable investing.
September 20 -
The offering comes amid a slowdown in large insitutional investors' funding of private credit and equity.
September 12 -
Fund managers are betting that nuclear energy, an area traditionally off-bounds for investors with environmental mandates, is set to make a comeback.
September 12 -
Firms like BlackRock and Invesco are among those signaling they want to offer access to private markets via ETFs.
July 31 -
CEO Larry Fink predicts will prove the key to 'democratizing' alternative investments.
July 2 -
Wealthtech platform Envestnet has agreed to offer its in-house unified managed account tools to BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and State Street to boost more customized direct indexing for advisors.
June 5 -
As the letters "ESG" fall out of favor, BlackRock and other firms are shifting their language to terms like "climate," "green" and "transition."
April 22 -
The world's largest asset manager has posted net ESG inflows every quarter for the past two years.
February 15 -
Study finds that the two large investing firms tend to not support shareholder proposals meant to combat climate change.
January 9 -
Apollo and other alternative asset managers are vying for executives with connections to the world's biggest fortunes.
December 13 -
The stock market's largest companies have the best chance of weathering the Fed's rate hikes, BlackRock's strategists believe.
November 8 -
The closings underscore shifting fortunes for sustainable investing as returns disappoint investors and anti-ESG rhetoric persists
September 21 -
The move disappointed advocates just days after a court ruling viewed by many as clearing a path for the long-awaited product.
September 1 -
A new book by Harvard Law School professor and former SEC official John Coates warns of "a deep tension" threatening the American economy and politics.
August 28 -
JPMorgan, which accounted for 9% of overall ETF flows in 2023 so far, is eyeing Blackrock's ETF throne.
July 27 -
The giant asset manager and its rivals like Vanguard and Schwab are all benefiting from offering advisors funds bundled into ready-made strategies.
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