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Big Three Profile

BLACKROCK

Latest public watch: about $13.46T reported for Q3 2025; verify against latest 10-Q/earnings release before quoting.

Big Three HubMachine DataEvidence Vault

Management / board

  • Laurence D. Fink — chairman and CEO watch route
  • Robert S. Kapito — president watch route
  • Board, executive committee, risk committee and stewardship leadership to be refreshed from annual report / proxy statement

Control layers

  • index funds and ETFs
  • iShares
  • Aladdin risk and portfolio platform
  • private markets / infrastructure expansion
  • proxy voting / stewardship
  • public-company ownership concentration

Contracts / mandates to track

  • USASpending.gov entity search
  • SAM.gov entity search
  • SEC material agreements and acquisition filings
  • public pension and state investment board mandates
  • sovereign wealth / institutional mandate references

Source routes

  • BlackRock investor relations
  • BlackRock annual report / 10-K
  • SEC EDGAR company filings
  • SEC 13F filings
  • Form ADV adviser search
  • N-PX proxy voting records
  • USASpending.gov
  • OpenSecrets lobbying search

Watch triggers

  • AUM movement
  • ETF flows
  • top 13F holdings
  • proxy voting themes
  • public pension mandates
  • government or central-bank-adjacent work
  • Aladdin / technology partnerships
  • acquisitions and private-market expansion
  • regulatory actions and lawsuits

Missing records

  • latest official AUM table
  • current executive committee list
  • latest 13F parsed holdings
  • latest proxy voting dataset
  • government contract extract
  • public pension mandate list
  • lobbying spend summary

What cannot be concluded

Asset ownership, index exposure, custody, fund voting, platform use or public contract appearance is not proof of wrongdoing by itself. Upgrade only with records.

Uploaded Video Research

BlackRock Viral Claim Audit

The uploaded videos are now treated as source leads: one shows repeated asset-manager holder screenshots and Bank of America / Giannini history; the other frames families, orders and policy groups as a control structure. This page separates visible claims, public-record routes and unsupported speculation.

What the screenshots really show

  • Do not read the screenshots as “BlackRock owns everything.” Read them as “index money causes the same asset managers to appear across many companies.”
  • The real power question is not just share ownership. It is voting rights, proxy policy, fund mandates, pension mandates, stewardship, Aladdin technology, private-market expansion and government-adjacent work.
  • The strongest BlackRock brief should ask: who owns the shares, who votes them, who sets the policy, who benefits from the mandate, and what record proves it?

What public records can verify

  • BlackRock is one of the world’s largest asset managers and reported roughly $11.6T AUM at the end of 2024; later reports place it higher, so every quoted figure needs date/version control.
  • BlackRock often appears as a top holder because funds and ETFs hold shares on behalf of clients. The key distinction is beneficial ownership versus voting/stewardship influence.
  • BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street create common-ownership concentration across many listed companies. This is a serious structural question even when no wrongdoing is alleged.
  • A. P. Giannini founded the Bank of Italy, which became Bank of America. The 1906 earthquake story is a banking-history route, not proof of a BlackRock control chain.
  • The most important evidence routes are 13F holdings, 13D/13G beneficial ownership, N-PX proxy votes, Form ADV, annual reports, litigation, lobbying and public mandate records.

Evidence routes to pull next

  • BlackRock annual reports and investor relations
  • SEC EDGAR: 10-K, 10-Q, 13F, 13D/13G, 8-K
  • N-PX proxy voting records
  • Form ADV adviser records
  • Reuters / major finance reporting for date-specific AUM snapshots
  • Bank of America historical material on A. P. Giannini
  • public pension and procurement databases

Watch next

  • Parse latest BLK 10-K and 10-Q for AUM, risk factors, acquisitions and client mix.
  • Parse latest BlackRock 13F and compare top holdings against Vanguard and State Street.
  • Build N-PX voting summary: how often BlackRock votes with management, against management and on climate/social/governance proposals.
  • Add public mandate table for pensions, sovereign institutions, state funds and central-bank-adjacent work where records exist.
  • Separate viral claims into proven, partly supported, unproven and false/misleading buckets.

Boundary

Uploaded videos are treated as leads. Claims are upgraded only through filings, official records, court records, annual reports, ownership data and proxy-voting records.

Open Machine Audit