BlackRock, Inc.

About BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment-management corporation headquartered in New York City. The company is the world's largest asset manager by assets under management and provides investment, advisory, and risk-management services to institutional and retail clients in more than one hundred countries. BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, Robert Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater, Ralph Schlosstein, and Keith Anderson. It was originally launched as the BlackRock Financial Management subsidiary of The Blackstone Group, and was spun out as an independent company in 1994. BlackRock has grown through transformative acquisitions including Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2006, Barclays Global Investors in 2009 (which brought the iShares exchange-traded-fund business), eFront in 2019, and Global Infrastructure Partners and HPS Investment Partners in the 2020s. The firm is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLK and is a constituent of the S&P 500. Its product range includes active and index equities, fixed income, multi-asset, alternatives, and cash-management strategies, and its iShares exchange-traded-fund family is one of the largest in the world. BlackRock is also a significant financial-technology business through its Aladdin platform, an end-to-end investment-management system used internally by BlackRock and licensed to external asset managers, asset owners, and insurers. The company operates technology, operations, and analytics centres in Mumbai, Gurugram, and Atlanta, and its India presence includes a major office in Mumbai and a fast-growing innovation hub in Gurugram. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at BlackRock typically targets analyst, software-engineering, data-engineering, and quantitative-research roles, with applications routed through careers.blackrock.com.

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