Earnings summaries and quarterly performance for BlackRock.
Executive leadership at BlackRock.
Laurence D. Fink
Chief Executive Officer
Caroline Heller
Global Head of Human Resources
Christopher J. Meade
Chief Legal Officer
J. Richard Kushel
Global Head of the Portfolio Management Group
Martin S. Small
Chief Financial Officer
Rachel Lord
Head of International
Robert L. Goldstein
Chief Operating Officer
Robert S. Kapito
President
Stephen Cohen
Chief Product Officer
Board of directors at BlackRock.
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Director
Amin H. Nasser
Director
Charles H. Robbins
Director
Cheryl D. Mills
Director
Fabrizio Freda
Director
Gordon M. Nixon
Director
Gregory J. Fleming
Director
Hans E. Vestberg
Director
Kathleen Murphy
Director
Kristin C. Peck
Director
Margaret "Peggy" L. Johnson
Director
Mark Wilson
Director
Murry S. Gerber
Lead Independent Director
Pamela Daley
Director
Susan L. Wagner
Director
William E. Ford
Director
Research analysts who have asked questions during BlackRock earnings calls.
Alexander Blostein
Goldman Sachs
5 questions for BLK
Craig Siegenthaler
Bank of America
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Michael Cyprys
Morgan Stanley
5 questions for BLK
Brian Bedell
Deutsche Bank
4 questions for BLK
Daniel Fannon
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
4 questions for BLK
William Katz
TD Cowen
4 questions for BLK
Benjamin Budish
Barclays PLC
3 questions for BLK
Patrick Davitt
Autonomous Research
3 questions for BLK
Michael Brown
Wells Fargo Securities
2 questions for BLK
Brennan Hawken
UBS Group AG
1 question for BLK
Glenn Schorr
Evercore ISI
1 question for BLK
Kenneth Worthington
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
1 question for BLK
Recent press releases and 8-K filings for BLK.
- BeToken tokenises Beself Brands, an 18-year European retail and e-commerce group with >€20 million in annual revenue, leveraging brands such as FITFIU Fitness, Greencut, Mc Haus, Beeloom, and Playkin.
- The token offering is priced at €2.75, with a €2,000 minimum investment and 5–15% tiered bonuses, providing investors proportional profit-sharing in the group’s performance.
- Beself Brands aims to surpass €95 million in sales within six years, using tokenisation to secure growth capital across ten European markets including France, Italy, and Germany.
- Structured under MiCA regulations, BeToken emphasises transparency and compliance, positioning itself as a scalable real-world asset tokenisation model in Europe.
- BlackRock launched the first index ETF providing single-fund access to the full taxable US bond market: iShares Total USD Fixed Income Market ETF (BTOT).
- BTOT tracks the Bloomberg US Total Fixed Income Market Index, expanding coverage by 28% beyond the Bloomberg US Aggregate Index and 9% beyond the Bloomberg US Universal Index.
- The ETF carries a net expense ratio of 0.09% (gross 0.10%) and adds bank loans, floating-rate notes and TIPS for greater diversification and potential income.
- BlackRock launched the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF (Nasdaq: IALT), a multi-strategy liquid alternatives fund designed to deliver absolute returns across market cycles via an ETF structure.
- IALT seeks lower correlation to traditional markets by blending equity market neutral, diversified bonds, and managed futures strategies with dynamic, data-driven portfolio adjustments.
- The fund leverages BlackRock Systematic’s 40 years of systematic investing expertise and its $378 billion systematic investment platform combining advanced analytics and AI-driven alpha streams.
- BlackRock is the largest U.S. liquid alternatives provider, capturing over 50% of year-to-date inflows in the category.
- On 8 December 2025, BlackRock, Inc. crossed a notification threshold, resulting in a 5.37% holding in Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc, equivalent to 1,037,639 voting rights.
- The new position comprises 5.02% direct voting rights and 0.34% via financial instruments.
- This follows a reduction from a prior combined stake of 5.54%.
- Caledonia Mining was notified of the change on 9 December 2025.
- BlackRock delivered 8% organic base fee growth over the last 12 months, with $100 billion of iShares ETF flows in Q4 to date and $450 billion year-to-date (a record), targeting 5%+ (6–7%) organic base fee growth for 2026.
- Targets 45%+ adjusted operating margin, achieving 46.3% fee-related earnings margin in Q3, up 110 bps YoY, driven by scalable franchises and recent acquisitions (HPS, GIP, Preqin) alongside a systematic expense-control framework.
- Completed HPS integration five months post-July closing, enhancing private credit origination, insurance-focused SMAs and private markets-for-wealth offerings; credit conditions remain benign with non-accruals and PIK at historical norms.
- Highlights shift from Strategic Asset Allocation to Total Portfolio Approach, noting ~$6 trillion of institutions adopting TPA and planning to launch LifePath target date funds with private allocations for DC plans in 2026 following regulatory advancements.
- Expanding digital asset capabilities, managing $65 billion in Circle stablecoin reserves, operating the tokenized money market fund BUIDL and IBIT ETF, with plans to tokenize iShares for digital wallet-native asset management within 3–5 years.
- BlackRock achieved 8% organic base fee growth over the past year, saw $100 billion of iShares inflows in Q4 (year-to-date $450 billion), and targets 6–7% organic base fee growth in 2026.
- Q3 fee-related earnings margin (ex-performance fees) was 46.3%, and BlackRock is targeting 45%+ adjusted operating margins, aided by accretive acquisitions (HPS, GIP, Preqin).
- Integration of HPS private credit is on track: origination funnel has doubled, focus on larger‐EBITDA borrowers (avg. ~$250 million), and default rates remain in line with historical norms.
- Plans to launch a family of 5–7 retail alternatives funds (H-series) and a LifePath target-date fund with private allocations in 2026, leveraging a $500 billion DCIO platform.
- In digital assets, BlackRock manages $65 billion of Circle stablecoin reserves, offers crypto ETFs and a tokenized money-market fund (BUIDL), and is developing workflows to tokenize iShares for digital-wallet-native portfolios in the next 3–5 years.
- BlackRock holds over $35 billion in Saudi equities, fixed income, and infrastructure, and plans to double or triple these investments, targeting AI, transportation, and digital infrastructure such as new airports and data centers.
- The strategy aligns with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, focusing on economic diversification through major projects like Riyadh’s metro expansion and data center development.
- Its Global Infrastructure Partners division led an $11 billion deal with Saudi Aramco and co-invested in a $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers, highlighting active regional involvement.
- Foreign direct investment to Saudi Arabia rose 24% to nearly $33 billion last year, underscoring growing international confidence in the kingdom’s transformation.
- As of September 2025, BlackRock manages $13.464 trillion in assets globally, with 55% in equities and 24% in fixed income, supporting its capacity to expand in emerging markets.
- BlackRock has increased its overweight exposure to U.S. equities to 3% across its $185 billion model-portfolio platform, citing confidence despite market volatility and AI rally skepticism.
- The move reflects optimism driven by strong corporate earnings, easing inflation, and anticipated Federal Reserve rate cuts.
- Factor exposures have shifted in favor of value and momentum stocks while reducing growth-oriented allocations, prompting significant ETF flows.
- Model portfolio assets have grown from $150 billion to $185 billion this year, amplifying the market impact of allocation changes.
- Bitcoin has formed a death cross—its 50-day moving average falling below the 200-day—after a ~25% drop from its October all-time high to around $94,000.
- Each previous death cross in the current cycle corresponded with a local bottom at $25,000 (Sept 2023), $49,000 (Aug 2024) and $75,000 (Apr 2025).
- Analysts outline two scenarios: a quick rebound within days or a deeper decline into a bear market lasting until late 2026 with prices potentially falling to $37,000–$57,000.
- Nearly 10,000 BTC have recently moved onto exchanges, adding downward pressure as traders reassess the rally.
- The scheduled end of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening on December 1 could catalyze a near-term bounce in digital assets.
- BlackRock’s $2.5B BUIDL fund launched on Binance BNB Chain and is now accepted as collateral on Binance.
- BUIDL offers a 4% yield with daily payouts, backed by U.S. Treasury bills.
- Managed by Securitize, BUIDL has expanded to eight blockchains since its March 2024 debut, including BNB Chain with $7.4B in TVL.
- Integration with Binance’s custody service Ceffu enables off-exchange collateral posting, boosting compliance and DeFi interoperability.
Quarterly earnings call transcripts for BlackRock.
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