Articles tagged "BlackRock"
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Vanguard Group shows up as 'alpha' disciple with two new fixed-income fund launches as it surpasses PIMCO's $2 trillion with ex-Goldman Sachs partner now calling the shots
The $8 trillion Malvern, Pa. manager owns beta investing, but RIAs are demanding higher income -- hence market timing and cherry picking -- from their fixed-income allocation.
August 10, 2021 at 11:46 PM
Suddenly Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street not only have the assets but the power of ESG mandates, which make them a growing threat to shareholder democracy, critics say
A handful of super-charged fund managers control $34 trillion of assets and most of the ESG inflows, giving them 'carte blanche' to shape corporate policies.
July 28, 2021 at 10:35 PM
RIAs are just not that into ESG investing -- at their peril, a new study says. That makes a leap: This is the one case where the customers -- both RIAs and their clients -- are wrong.
Cerulli is the latest to question RIAs for 'not fully understanding' ESG as an emerging megatrend, which could lead to a potential disconnect with Next Gen investors.
May 18, 2021 at 1:12 AM
Despite tepid net flows in 2020, Aperio finds its white knight; BlackRock makes a deal to compete with buyers of Parametric, Motif and Folio
The Sausalito, Calif., direct indexing firm's owner watched as competitors got snapped up by Morgan Stanley, Schwab and Goldman Sachs but ultimately scored a $1-billion offer from the giant's petty cash.
November 26, 2020 at 1:42 AM
Chiding [but not naming] Vanguard Group, Larry Fink answers whether BlackRock will compete directly with RIAs: 'We are not a threat'
The BlackRock CEO reverse spun the success of big rivals in retail advice : 'We don't go to the customer like some other asset managers do'.
September 19, 2020 at 4:00 AM
The BlackRock-Microsoft 'reimagining' of the 401(k) market, arrives looking more like a remix of existing third-party products
The New York-Seattle cross-breeding combines annuities and BlackRock target-date funds but the superpowers expended little imagination, RIA annuity executives say.
July 27, 2020 at 9:43 PM
With Brinker Capital its first big proof of concept, BlackRock moves Aladdin onto Microsoft's cloud to automate portfolios at the RIA-client level to surpass what it always did at the fund level
The Berwyn, Pa.-based $21-billion TAMP contracts for Aladdin portfolio construction help after BlackRock chooses Azure to maximize Aladdin to become a 'language'
May 11, 2020 at 10:47 PM
New class of robos lay siege to 'antiquated' target-date-funds (TDF) market; even defender of the 401(k) citadel, Vanguard, sees handwriting on the wall
Fidelity, Ascensus, and Morningstar are all making 401(k) moves that could see automated advice replace the Vanguard-dominated TDF market but maybe Vanguard just woke up in time to cannibalize the market itself.
October 8, 2019 at 3:02 AM
Oisin's Bits: Sierra Club slams Larry Fink's 'lip-service' to green future • Pre- VC raise SmartRIA is winning an RIA a day. Brian Hamburger counters: 'What happens when the tide goes out?' • Eric Clarke pairs up with Raj Udeshi's HiddenLevers
The un-wowed greens question BlackRock's white hat act ; SmartRIA doubles in size on flood tide; Orion gets business intelligence for RIAs from the guy in spat with Envestnet
June 5, 2019 at 8:59 PM
HiddenLevers' Raj Udeshi takes victory lap after nabbing Focus Financial account: 'We dropped a bomb in BlackRock's backyard;' But it's just a battle not the war, analysts say
The founder's analytics software firm had to beat out Aladdin but the reward is a doubling of assets and $1-million-plus contract
March 27, 2019 at 9:41 PM
Fidelity Investments takes another leap into the future, enlisting Amazon to turn advisors into virtual reality avatars, but some say it's pie-in-the-sky
Abby Johnson's metamorphing Boston financial firm needs the Seattle owner of Alexa to make its vision of remote advisors with the human touch a reality,
February 4, 2019 at 11:41 PM
BlackRock buys Envestnet's love for $123 million to crack its 'open-architecture' platform and sets stage for another juicy Envestnet acquisition
The $6-trillion New York mega-manager buys 5% stake in the $2-trillion Chicago clearinghouse to get most-favored-vendor status in 'open architecture' environment
November 29, 2018 at 1:20 AM
Why Eric Clarke is pressing to give Orion's 1,500 RIAs first crack at BlackRock's Aladdin -- including two that already have feeds
The Orion Advisor Services CEO is working with a $5-trillion AUM asset manager but it boils down to his personal relationship with BlackRock's Brad Stanger
June 15, 2018 at 7:58 PM
How Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street -- which manage RIA trillions of AUM for a pittance -- may artfully make the bill come due by beating active managers at their own game
The ETF giants' latest mutual fund-killing trick is free management of ETF portfolios -- perhaps the seeds of a massive freemium model
June 6, 2018 at 9:42 PM
BlackRock poaches a DFA big to head its efforts to get RIAs to use iShares and connect more to BlackRock itself
The $6T New York manager gets Michael Lane to instill community building, Dimensional Fund Advisors-style, but it won't get him to leave Austin
