Category: BlackRock

  • Visualizing BlackRock’s Top Equity Holdings

    BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $9 trillion in holdings. Here are the company’s top equity holdings. The post Visualizing BlackRock’s Top Equity Holdings appeared first on Visual Capitalist.

  • BlackRock MyMap: Designed for First-Time Investors

    First-time investors are faced with an overwhelming amount of information and choices. See how BlackRock is simplifying the process. The post BlackRock MyMap: Designed for First-Time Investors appeared first on Visual Capitalist.

  • How do Institutional Investors Choose ETFs?

    This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by iShares Download the ETF Snapshot for free. How do Institutional Investors Choose ETFs? Although there are roughly 7,000 ETFs available globally, the majority of assets under management (AUM) belongs to a relatively small number of funds. In fact, among the…

  • Four Reasons to Watch UK Equities

    This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by BlackRock. Over the past several years, UK equities have traded at a relative discount compared to other developed markets. This was largely due to ongoing Brexit negotiations, where uncertainty around trade deals and other legislation created significant headwinds. Fast forward…

  • Impact Investing: Building a Better World

    This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by BlackRock. Typically, an investor’s main objective revolves around building wealth and then turning that wealth into an income generator. As a result, financial returns are accepted as the default performance metric. But what if investing could also address the world’s…

  • Women’s health tech brand, Elvie, tops up Series C to $97M

    This post is by Natasha Lomas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Elvie, the women’s health tech pioneer behind a connected breast pump and smart pelvic floor exerciser, has topped up a Series C which it announced earlier this summer (July) — adding a further £12.7m to bring the total raised to £70 million ($97m).…

  • SoftBank pours up to $150M into GBM, a Mexico City-based investment platform

    This post is by Mary Ann Azevedo from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Grupo Bursátil Mexicano (GBM) is a 35-year-old investment platform in the Mexican stock market. In its first three decades of life, GBM was focused on providing investment services to high net worth individuals and local and global institutions. Over the past decade,…

  • Gojek and Tokopedia merge to form GoTo Group

    This post is by Manish Singh from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Ride-hailing giant Gojek and marketplace Tokopedia, Indonesia’s two biggest startups, said on Monday they have combined their businesses to form GoTo Group, the largest technology group in the Southeast Asian nation, the fourth most populous country that is currently navigating to contain the…

  • Real estate tech startup Offerpad to go public via SPAC merger in $3B deal

    This post is by Mary Ann Azevedo from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Offerpad is the latest proptech company to go public via a SPAC merger. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based company announced Thursday its plans to go public by merging with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company in a deal valued at $3 billion. The transaction is expected…

  • Jobandtalent takes $120M from Softbank to enter the US market

    This post is by Natasha Lomas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Spain’s Jobandtalent, a digital temp staffing agency startup which operates a dual-sided platform that matches temps with employers needing casual labor in sectors like ecommerce, warehousing, logistics and manufacturing, has grabbed €100 million (~$120M) in Series D funding from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.…