BlackRock Expands AI and Tech Investment Opportunities with New Active ETFs

The ETFs target global AI and technology sectors, providing investors access to evolving industry trends.

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Oct 22, 2024
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  • BlackRock positions AI as a long-term investment theme with broad market implications.
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BlackRock (BLK, Financials) has introduced two actively trading exchange-traded funds, increasing investor access to artificial intelligence and technology businesses. Made to catch changing trends in the worldwide artificial intelligence and technology sectors, the two exchange-traded funds are the iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF and the iShares Technology Opportunities Active ETF.

Members of BlackRock's Fundamental Equities Technology Group, Tony Kim and Reid Menge, oversee both of these products, the investment giant revealed in a statement. Investing in twenty to forty artificial intelligence and technology companies, BAI will focus especially on companies related to artificial intelligence infrastructure, intelligence, and applications. TEK targets a portfolio that includes fifty to seventy technology businesses spread all throughout the world inspired by the BlackRock Technology Opportunities Fund. These businesses work in fields like hardware, software, and semiconductors.

BlackRock oversees thirty-two billion dollars out of over forty active exchange-traded funds in the United States. Artificial intelligence is a major issue for long-term investment, which the company sees as having effects on the market overall.

Head of U.S. iShares Product at BlackRock Rachel Aguirre said the release marks a turning moment for active exchange-traded funds. This shift will let investors profit from the opportunities artificial intelligence and technology provide within the simplicity of an ETF.

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