The issuer’s popular S&P 500-tracking fund also recently made history by amassing $1 trillion in assets.
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The fund would become the first ETF to hit the trillion-dollar milestone.
The world’s largest asset manager launched an active fund, the iShares $ EM Bond Active Ucits ETF, in April.
While some clean energy products have outperformed this year, it’s not all sunshine and daisies for ESG.
Cyclical industries can provide some regularity for ETF investors, but not without downsides.
Silver’s role as an inflation hedge, its industrial uses and a supply deficit have created strong tailwinds.
Wealthier people are less likely to value financial advice, but there are consequences to trading ETFs outside of advisory relationships.
BlackRock and Vanguard have raked in cash in very different places, highlighting some of the differences in their ETF customer bases.
Issuers are pumping out funds to meet investor demand, but there’s a growing risk that many of the new ETFs will have short shelf lives.
The fund pulled in more than $18 million in assets over two days last week but has seen negligible interest from investors long term.
Numerous products have been awaiting approval by the SEC, and more, such as an index-based crypto ETF, are in development.
The asset manager disclosed that it will close and liquidate the mutual funds and ETFs, including the BlackRock Impact Mortgage Fund.
The world’s leading asset manager says the cryptography underlying Bitcoin could be compromised by quantum hackers.
An iShares ETF caps individual holdings at 3%; it isn’t the first to skew allocations away from the largest companies.
BlackRock is prepping an ETF that would focus on companies based in the Lone Star State. There are few equity funds like it.