BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors including corporate, public, union, and industry pension plans, insurance companies, third-party mutual funds, endowments, public institutions, governments, foundations, charities, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, official institutions, and banks. It also provides global risk management and advisory services. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also launches and manages open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles including structured funds. The firm launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and real estate mutual funds. It also launches equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset exchange traded funds. The firm also launches and manages hedge funds. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying equity securities. The firm invests in investment grade municipal securities, government securities including securities issued or guaranteed by a government or a government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments. The firm employs liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies to make its investments. In real estate sector, it seeks to invest in Poland and Germany. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against various S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch indices. BlackRock, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in New York City with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; Gurgaon, India; Hong Kong; Greenwich, Connecticut; Princeton, New Jersey; Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington, District of Columbia; Toronto, Canada; Wilmington, Delaware; and San Francisco, California. |
Insider Trading |
Relationship |
Date |
Transaction |
Cost |
#Shares |
Value ($) |
#Shares Total |
SEC Form 4 |
FORD WILLIAM E | Director | Apr 18 | Buy | 681.44 | 2,000 | 1,362,880 | 14,915 | Apr 18 06:06 PM | FORD WILLIAM E | Director | Apr 14 | Buy | 701.00 | 1,000 | 701,000 | 12,915 | Apr 18 06:06 PM | McCombe Mark | Senior Managing Director | Feb 07 | Sale | 819.32 | 1,400 | 1,147,049 | 22,588 | Feb 09 05:52 PM | FINK LAURENCE | Chairman and CEO | Dec 02 | Sale | 920.92 | 16,365 | 15,070,818 | 589,724 | Dec 03 08:20 PM | Kushel J. Richard | Senior Managing Director | Nov 08 | Sale | 964.45 | 405 | 390,602 | 5,245 | Nov 10 04:26 PM | FINK LAURENCE | Chairman and CEO | Oct 26 | Sale | 936.35 | 5,000 | 4,681,766 | 606,089 | Oct 27 05:11 PM | FINK LAURENCE | Chairman and CEO | Oct 25 | Sale | 925.68 | 22,247 | 20,593,675 | 616,524 | Oct 27 05:11 PM | McCombe Mark | Senior Managing Director | Aug 16 | Sale | 910.50 | 2,000 | 1,821,000 | 18,804 | Aug 18 04:24 PM | Meade Christopher J. | General Counsel and CLO | Jul 20 | Sale | 877.24 | 2,106 | 1,847,467 | 6,936 | Jul 22 05:01 PM | Wiedman Mark | Senior Managing Director | Jul 15 | Sale | 884.50 | 175 | 154,787 | 7,766 | Jul 16 05:12 PM |
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