BlackRock, Inc. is an American investment management company headquartered in New York City, founded in 1988 by Larry Fink and seven co-founders as a fixed income risk management business within the Blackstone Group before becoming independent in 1994 and going public in 1999. It grew into the largest asset manager in the world by assets under management, particularly after its 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors, which brought it the iShares exchange-traded fund business, and it is also known for Aladdin, a risk management and portfolio analytics platform used widely across the finance industry.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational investment company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersNew York City, United States 1 Connections
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The world's largest asset manager, central to institutional and retail investment-management practice within finance.
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A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.
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1. Wikipedia, BlackRock, Inc. Encyclopedia Article
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BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is by far the world's largest asset manager, with $15.3 trillion in assets under management as of 2026. Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock has 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries.
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