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BlackRock Hits Record Assets as Acquisitions Drive Growth

The world's largest asset manager has reached a new record of $205bn in assets following acquisitions of HPS and Global Infrastructure Partners.

3 publishers · 3 articles · first seen 14 Oct 2026 · updated 30m ago

First reported by News Feed, 7 min ahead of the next publisher · who breaks stories first

The odds

How the odds moved · Digital Asset
0%50%100%99%14 Oct, 10:50 UTCnowQuartz: BlackRock posted a 26% profit jump as fees and assets hit $15.5 trillion · 14 Oct, 12:04 UTC

Each tick is a source publishing on this story · 2 more published before price tracking began

Price data
TimeChance of yes
now99%
14 Oct, 11:52 UTC82%
14 Oct, 11:24 UTC66%
14 Oct, 10:50 UTC92%

The story so far

3 publishers have covered this in 3 articles since 14 Oct 2026. News Feed published first, on 14 October at 10:33 UTC; MarketWatch followed 7 min later. The most recent article, from Quartz, appeared on 14 October at 12:04 UTC.

Outlets reporting it: News Feed (major outlet), MarketWatch, Quartz.

One prediction market prices this story:

  • Digital Asset — the market puts it at 99%, with $8k traded in the last 24 hours, closing 27 Oct 2026. The outcome is Yes if a BlackRock representative mentions Digital Asset during the company's next earnings call or Q&A session. The outcome is No if the term is not mentioned in that specific event. Readers often mistake any general news report for the official source of truth instead of waiting for the actual earnings call transcript.

Odds are the market's probability that the outcome happens, updated every few minutes. They are information about what traders expect, not a forecast we make and not investment advice.

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it published, with the odds on Digital Asset at that moment. A dash means the source published before we started tracking prices.

  1. News FeedBlackRock pulls in $205bn to take assets to new record—
  2. MarketWatchBlackRock’s assets equal half the size of the U.S. economy after 15% growth—
  3. QuartzBlackRock posted a 26% profit jump as fees and assets hit $15.5 trillion82%
  4. Current odds99%

Sources

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  1. BlackRock pulls in $205bn to take assets to new record News Feed ·
  2. BlackRock posted a 26% profit jump as fees and assets hit $15.5 trillion Quartz
  3. BlackRock’s assets equal half the size of the U.S. economy after 15% growth MarketWatch

Markets on this story

  • Kalshi Digital Asset 99% +7 $8k 24hends 27 Oct 2026

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  • BlackRock
  • HPS
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
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