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BlackRock ETF Dominance Slips

Asset manager loses market share in exchange-traded funds to Vanguard.

By Alexis Leondis, Bloomberg | Updated on July 19, 2012

For years, BlackRock Inc. has struggled to profit from an investor preference for actively managed bond funds that has largely eluded the world’s largest asset manager. Now Chief Executive Officer Laurence D. Fink is facing a new headache.

BlackRock, the world’s biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, is losing market share in the ETF business to Vanguard Group Inc., the company best known for its low-cost index funds. BlackRock’s U.S. market share declined by 1.4 percent this year to about 41 percent as of June 30, according to a report by State Street Global Advisors. Vanguard, the third largest ETF manager after No. 2 State Street Corp., had a market share increase of 1.7 percent to 18 percent.

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