GCEIP 500 Company profile
BlackRock
BlackRock reported $14 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2025. The figure is client money entrusted to its funds and accounts, not cash the firm owns.
The company
What it does
BlackRock manages investments for institutional and retail clients and sells financial technology and subscription services. Its products cover equities, fixed income, cash management, multi-asset portfolios and private markets.
Across markets
The company’s 2025 filing reports about 24,900 employees in more than 30 countries and clients in more than 100. It managed $3.9 trillion for pension plans at year end, including plans for corporations, governments and unions. Investment management gives BlackRock a role in how client savings enter capital markets; those assets remain tied to client mandates and investment outcomes. Proxy votes are another point of influence. Morningstar’s review of 50 US asset managers found that BlackRock supported 6.4% of shareholder resolutions on average during the 2023–25 proxy years, and 6.6% in 2025, within the study’s defined universe of US large- and mid-cap companies. The figures describe voting, not the effects of those votes on companies or pensioners.
The company’s footprint and context are linked to the public sources below.
GCEIP view
What the record tells us
TIME included BlackRock in its 2024 and 2025 TIME100 Companies lists. Those are editorial selections, not judged awards. Fortune’s 2025 Most Admired Companies All-Stars page lists BlackRock at #22, but that programme remains under review in this project. Forbes Global 2000 rank #191 is a company-size measure and earns no recognition points. The evidence supports two provisional TIME list placements; BlackRock’s final total and GCEIP position remain pending the same programme and identity checks applied to every company.
Published recognition
Selected results
See published awards and company-list results 4 sources
- TIME100 Most Influential Companies · 2025View source
TIME100 Companies selection
Named by TIME editors among 105 businesses for company-specific influence, impact, innovation, ambition or success; analysis of the specific business case pending
- Fortune World's Most Admired Companies All-Stars · 2025View source
Securities/Asset Management
Overall All-Stars rank #22; published industry: Securities/Asset Management
- Forbes Global 2000 · 2025View source
Public-company scale ranking; evidence for discovery/context only
Forbes Global 2000 size-rank #191 of 2,000
- TIME100 Most Influential Companies · 2024View source
TIME editorial company list; unranked placement
Named company entry in TIME’s 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies list; no numbered rank published.
Sources for this profile
- BlackRock 2025 Form 10-K, SEC: clients, employees, AUM and pension assets
- Morningstar: US proxy-voting trends, 2025 in review
- BlackRock 2025 Investment Stewardship Annual Report
- TIME: How the 2025 TIME100 Companies were selected
- TIME: BlackRock’s 2024 TIME100 Companies profile
- Fortune: World’s Most Admired Companies All-Stars 2025