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Thursday, August 15, 2013 Three Things to Know From BlackRock's Q2 2013 Earnings BlackRock [profile] posted second quarter earnings of $4.15 a share, above the analyst consensus of $3.82 according to Zacks Consensus Estimate. It also surpassed the 2012 second quarter earnings of $3.10 a share. Total revenue came in at $2.48 billion, up 11 percent from last year's second quarter, above the Zacks analyst estimate. Net inflows came to $5.07 million for retail and $1.3 million for institutional active funds, with $6.4 million for institutional index funds. Total institutional inflows came to $7.7 million. MFWire found three important points to note from Seeking Alpha's transcript of BlackRock's earnings call. POINT 1: Unconstrained bond fund fees are higher than constrained, but that may change as those funds see more growth. POINT 2: BlackRock is seeing more fixed income specialists using bond ETFs in their portfolios. POINT 3: CEO Larry Fink has not seen a dramatic shift from passive into active. To elaborate more on each of those points: POINT 1: Unconstrained bond fund fees are higher than constrained, but that may change as those funds see more growth. Michael Carrier of Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Larry, just one question on the fixed income business. You gave a lot of detail. Just in terms of BlackRock, how you guys are setup from a fixed income product mix, what's your offering when you look at the mix of, say, like the core products versus the -- what you characterize as either the alternative or the flex products? And then also just from like a fee perspective. If we continue to see more of that shift over time, what tends to be the fee rate in those products versus some of the more core products?POINT 2: BlackRock is seeing more fixed income specialists using bond ETFs in their portfolios. Marc Irizarry of Goldman Sachs: So just following up on fixed income allocations from institutions, just in terms of going from maybe core to non-core products, how are fixed income ETFs playing into those discussions? And just following on, on some of the discussions around the -- what sounds like sort of market dislocations, if you will, that were temporary versus sort of tracking our long-term for fixed income. Maybe you could talk about sort of the market share opportunity?POINT 3: CEO Larry Fink has not seen a dramatic shift from passive into active. Irizarry: Okay. And then if you can just give some color on your EM -- on active EM business both in equity and debt. Obviously, we saw -- we've seen a pretty good bout of volatility here. Are you sensing or seeing from your clients any change in thinking about being active in EM versus passive in their allocations toward EM?See Seeking Alpha's earnings call transcript of BlackRock's earnings call and the earnings release for more on how BlackRock is doing. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=45532 Copyright 2013, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |