NEW YORK, June 26, 2024--BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) today announced a strategic partnership with financial technology firm GeoWealth expanding BlackRock’s capabilities to meet client needs in the $37 trillion U.S. wealth market. Through the partnership, BlackRock will offer custom models via GeoWealth’s platform that enable advisors to meet client demand for private markets, direct indexing and fixed income SMAs – in addition to traditionally offered ETFs and mutual funds – in a single account.
TORONTO, June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (“BlackRock Canada”), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”) (NYSE:BLK) today announced certain risk rating changes and made permanent a previously implemented annual management fee waiver, each as specifically described below. Risk Rating Changes BlackRock Canada announced today an update to the investment risk rating of the iShares exchange-traded funds (the “iShares Funds” and e
BlackRock held onto board seats at six closed end funds last week after investment firm Saba Capital Management did not secure enough votes to replace directors or fire the fund manager, according to data released by BlackRock on Tuesday. "Based on the preliminary results from last week's shareholder meetings, it is clear that shareholders have rejected both Saba's nominees and its efforts to displace BlackRock as investment advisor to the Funds," BlackRock said in a statement. Saba, run by prominent investor Boaz Weinstein, and BlackRock, the world's biggest asset management company with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, have been locked in battle for months over the future of 10 BlackRock closed end funds.