BlackRock, Inc. reports developments from a global asset management and financial technology business built around investment products, institutional client services and technology platforms. Recurring updates include operating results, net flows across ETFs, active strategies and private markets, and product launches under the iShares brand, including fixed income ETFs tied to leveraged loans and other credit markets.
Company news also covers Aladdin and Preqin data, analytics and benchmark capabilities for private credit, infrastructure-focused activity through Global Infrastructure Partners, and philanthropic workforce initiatives funded by The BlackRock Foundation. These releases connect BlackRock's asset management platform with technology services, private markets data, infrastructure investment themes and skilled-trades workforce programs.
BlackRock (BLK) subsidiary Preqin released its annual private markets outlook, forecasting assets under management above $34 trillion by 2031. Its private markets universe includes private capital asset classes and hedge funds.
Preqin forecasts private equity assets of $11.6 trillion, private credit fund assets with corporate underlying above $5 trillion, and venture capital assets of $3.79 trillion by 2031. It projects infrastructure assets of $2.74 trillion, representing annualized growth of 9.8%. Regional forecasts put North America above $23 trillion, Europe above $7 trillion and APAC approaching $3 trillion. These are market-wide forecasts, not BlackRock asset-management targets.
BlackRock (BLK) launched the iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies Active ETF, expanding its actively managed investment offerings focused on AI. The fund trades as RBTX on NYSE Arca, has a 0.65% expense ratio and uses MSCI ACWI Net as its performance benchmark. It seeks total return through companies developing, supplying or implementing robotics and automation of physical tasks.
Tony Kim and Reid Menge will manage RBTX; their technology team oversees more than $50 billion across AI and technology strategies. BlackRock’s existing AI-focused active ETF, BAI, had amassed more than $14 billion since its October 2024 launch, as of October 15, 2026. The iShares active ETF business had nearly doubled its assets over the past year to approximately $200 billion, as of September 30, 2026.
BlackRock (BLK) released research showing generational differences in how family offices approach investment risk, private markets, liquidity and governance.
The survey, conducted with Preqin, covered more than 200 single-family offices across the Americas representing nearly $500 billion in investable assets. Nearly four in ten say the next generation is more willing to take investment risk; only one fifth say younger family members are more conservative. Governance and decision-making rank as a top concern for nearly 30%, ahead of investment returns.
Nearly 40% of newer offices plan to increase infrastructure allocations over the next 12 months, compared with just over 15% of established offices. More than three-quarters of respondents cite the exit environment as a concern for returns. Nearly two-thirds report limited or no next-generation involvement in investment decisions.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) reported record third-quarter Wealth Management net revenues of $9.1 billion as financial firms disclosed further client inflows. The unit recorded $232.4 billion in net new assets, $80.5 billion in fee-based flows and a 30.4% pre-tax margin. Client assets across wealth and investment management reached $10.5 trillion.
The broader backdrop included more than 440,000 new U.S. millionaires in 2025, bringing the total above 23.6 million, while inflation-adjusted median wealth per adult fell almost 20% since 2020. BlackRock reported $205 billion in third-quarter net inflows and $15.5 trillion under management at September 30. Schwab's quarterly core net new assets rose 38% year over year to $190.4 billion. Robinhood's second-quarter retirement assets under custody rose 82% year over year to $34.5 billion. LPL Financial recorded $13.5 billion in organic net new assets in August.
Morgan Stanley (MS) reported record third-quarter Wealth Management net revenues of $9.1 billion as client money flowed into financial firms. Its wealth business recorded $232.4 billion in net new assets, $80.5 billion in fee-based flows and a 30.4% pre-tax margin. Client assets across wealth and investment management reached $10.5 trillion.
Schwab (SCHW) reported record quarterly core net new assets of $190.4 billion, up 38% year over year. BlackRock (BLK) reported $205 billion in third-quarter net inflows and $15.5 trillion in assets under management at September 30. Robinhood (HOOD) reported second-quarter retirement assets under custody of $34.5 billion, up 82% year over year. LPL Financial (LPLA) recorded $13.5 billion in organic net new assets in August. These figures accompanied a UBS estimate that the United States added more than 440,000 millionaires in 2025.
BlackRock (BLK) announced the planned termination of three 2026 iShares iBonds exchange-traded funds, with liquidation expected on December 18, 2026.
The funds are the iShares iBonds 2026 Term High Yield and Income ETF (IBHF), the iShares iBonds Dec 2026 Term Corporate ETF (IBDR) and the iShares iBonds Dec 2026 Term Treasury ETF (IBTG). All three have a final trading day and final net asset value calculation date of December 15, 2026. IBHF trades on Cboe BZX, IBDR on NYSE Arca and IBTG on Nasdaq. The planned closures follow the funds’ design to cease trading and mature within a specified maturity window.
BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) released its financial results for the third quarter of 2026, with earnings materials available on its investor relations website. The earnings release and supplemental materials can be accessed at ir.blackrock.com/quarterlyresults.
BlackRock (BLK) announced a foundation-funded SaverLife financial wellness app launch for skilled trades apprentices, reaching nearly 75,000 eligible apprentices nationwide.
The SaverLife x BlackRock Future Builders app is available through the electrical training ALLIANCE, the training partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association. It provides tools to help apprentices manage debt, build credit and grow savings. Union apprentices in BlackRock Future Builders programs will also be eligible for cash incentives as they progress through training and build healthy financial habits.
BlackRock (BLK) launched Future of Wealth research examining affluent women’s financial priorities and gaps in their relationships with financial advisors. The report surveyed more than 1,000 affluent women and more than 400 financial advisors across the country. Nearly 40% of affluent women remain unadvised, rising to 45% among women with $10 million or more in assets.
Women ranked growing wealth as their top priority, while advisors believed it ranked eighth. Better tax outcomes were a priority for 41% of women, compared with 12% of advisors who believed this was a priority. Among those surveyed, 35% planned to switch advisors over the next two years because of unmet coordinated-advice needs; over 25% planned to switch because of unmet tax-related needs. Nearly 60% of advisors identified engagement before a major wealth transition as their largest relationship-building gap.
BlackRock (BLK) announced the planned termination of the iShares iBonds Dec 2026 Term Muni Bond ETF, with liquidation expected December 4, 2026.
The fund, trading as IBMO on Cboe BZX, has its last trading day and final net asset value calculation scheduled for December 1, 2026. Net asset value measures the fund’s assets minus its liabilities. Shareholders will receive liquidation proceeds on or around December 4, depending on their brokerage’s processes. As the bonds mature before the final distribution, the portfolio transitions into short-term instruments and cash, consistent with the fund’s defined maturity window.