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BlackRock to Cut ETF Fees

Firm acts after losing market share to rivals like Vanguard.

By Alexis Leondis | Updated on September 10, 2012
BlackRock Inc.’s Laurence D. Fink, who heads the world’s largest asset manager, said the firm will announce fee reductions for large exchange-traded funds next quarter, after losing market share to rivals.

“We expect to be announcing a whole strategy in how are we addressing the fee issue related to these large, liquid, core types of ETFs,” Fink, who is chief executive officer of New York-based BlackRock, said today at the Barclays 2012 Global Financial Services Conference.

BlackRock, the world’s largest ETF provider, has lost market share as rivals such as Vanguard Group Inc. attract investors. BlackRock’s U.S. market share in the ETF business fell 1.4 percentage points in the first half of this year to about 41 percent, compared with an increase of 1.7 percentage points for Vanguard to 18 percent, according to a report by State Street Global Advisors.

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