A tighter look at the products that matter most to BlackRock, along with the free, open, decentralized, or cooperative alternatives already creating pricing pressure and the original disruption concepts that could widen that pressure further.
Products
These pages zoom into the products and services that matter most to each company, the alternatives already nibbling at them, and 4 structured disruption concepts across the current product set.
Exchange-traded funds and index investment products
2 conceptsiShares is BlackRock's ETF and index-investing franchise, offering broad market, bond, sector, factor, active, outcome, commodity, and digital-asset exposure through regulated fund wrappers.
Investment management and risk analytics platform
2 conceptsAladdin is BlackRock's institutional investment management, operations, and risk platform for asset managers, insurers, pension funds, wealth managers, and related financial institutions.
Paper trail
These sources shaped the scoring and writing. The site is opinionated, but it should not behave like it is improvising facts in a dark room.
BlackRock · annual report
Primary source for BlackRock AUM, business mix, iShares ETF AUM, financial performance, and Aladdin discussion.
Reviewed 2026-05-26
CompaniesMarketCap.com · market data
Point-in-time market capitalization reference for the registry snapshot.
Reviewed 2026-05-26
StockAnalysis · market data
Market-data reference for BLK valuation context.
Reviewed 2026-05-26
BlackRock · product page
Official product page for the iShares ETF franchise.
Reviewed 2026-05-26
BlackRock · product page
Official product page describing Aladdin as an investment management and risk platform.
Reviewed 2026-05-26