iShares

BlackRock

iShares is the ETF brand of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, founded in New York in 1988. The iShares brand was born in 2000 inside Barclays Global Investors and joined BlackRock in 2009: today it accounts for roughly a third of the global ETF market, with Europe’s widest UCITS range.

What sets it apart. Scale is its edge: huge, liquid funds like the S&P 500 (CSPX), physical replication almost everywhere and systematic securities lending that often improves the tracking difference. The group also runs Aladdin, the risk platform used across half the financial industry.

ETF

893

Assets

1,268bn €

Median TER

0.20%

over 890 classes with a TER; 3 classes excluded from the median: 0 with another cost definition, 3 with a disputed TER

Median TD (12 months)

-0.07%

across 580 ETFs with TD

Securities lending

100%

of 781 ETFs with explicit data

Active management

of 893 ETFs (declared by issuer or KID)

White-list taxation: Rebalix tracks the white-list share certified by iShares for 5,259 funds, with coverage through 31 December 2026. Per-ISIN effective Italian tax rates in the ETF taxation database.

Range by asset class

Equity 445Bonds 408Real estate 15 Multi-asset 9 Commodities 8 Money market 7 Crypto 1

Main exchanges: Xetra · Londra (LSE) · SIX Zurigo · Euronext Amsterdam · Borsa Italiana

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