A strong management team and sound investment process underpin BlackRock Future Tech ETF's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The strategy charges fees in line with its similarly distributed peers, priced within the middle quintile.  

 The strategy’s management team earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's sensible investment philosophy earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.  High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And a low quality exposure is rooted in stocks with higher financial leverage and lower profitability. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

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Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. BlackRock Future Tech ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. 

The leading factor in the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 59%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. The parent firm's superior risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.2 stars, also bolsters the rating. Lastly, the process is limited by being an actively managed strategy. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that actively managed funds have generally underperformed their passive counterparts, especially over longer time horizons.

 This strategy skews toward smaller, higher-growth companies than its average peer in the Technology Morningstar Category. Analyzing additional factors, the fund has held stocks with higher trading volumes compared to Morningstar Category Peers in the past few years. More-liquid assets contribute to more-flexible exit strategies without price changes and tend to be a ballast during market selloffs. For example, if the portfolio faces successive redemptions in a short period of time, it will be less likely to suffer from a significant loss. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. The strategy has also had a defensive tilt, demonstrated by lower exposure to the quality factor than peers in recent years. This means the fund has avoided holding companies that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. Such positions do not tend to provide much ballast for a portfolio. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Quality factor than peers. Additionally, the managers have consistently taken on more risk, demonstrated by higher volatility exposure than peers. This orientation tends to pay off most prominently when markets are hot. In this month, the strategy also had more exposure to the Volatility factor over its peers. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section. 

 The portfolio is overweight in technology by 4.6 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its industrials allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are financial services and healthcare; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The portfolio is positioned across 96 holdings and its assets are more dispersed than the typical peer in the category. In the most recent disclosure, 28.4% of the portfolio's assets were concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, as opposed to the category average's 52.3%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, on a year-over-year basis, 68% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

Above Average

Process

BlackRock Future Tech ETF earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. The team is backed by Tony Kim, the longest-tenured manager on the strategy, who provides 18 years of listed portfolio management experience. The average Morningstar Rating of the strategies they currently manage is 1.9 stars, reflecting below-average risk-adjusted performance versus category peers. Tony Kim has an experienced listed co-manager. Together, they average 11 years of listed portfolio management experience. As a team, they manage two investment vehicles together, with a Silver asset-weighted average Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating the potential to deliver positive alpha in aggregate. None of the portfolio managers here invest in this fund. This hurts the rating because manager investment would align their interests with the strategy's investors.

 Note: The People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. The longest-tenured manager of the fund also manages a different product rated by an analyst. Their analyst-assigned People Pillar rating is combined here with the People scores (algorithmic or analyst-assigned) for the fund’s other managers on a tenure-weighted basis.

People

BlackRock offers compelling options across asset classes and vehicles. It earns an Above Average rating for Parent. 
The firm’s approximately USD 8 trillion in assets under management, as of Sept. 30, 2022, gives it unparalleled scale and influence. It is a market-leading index fund provider globally, and its iShares exchange-traded fund franchise offers a low-cost lineup of core funds that investors can use to build a well-diversified portfolio for dirt cheap. The firm can be more adventurous in its ETF launches than some peers, so not everything it launches is appropriate for the masses. As a result, it is likely to have more ETF closures than peers that stick to the basic building blocks.  
The firm’s active fixed-income and multi-asset efforts also stand out as some of the best in the industry. Those benefit from BlackRock’s commitment to building a first-class risk management system via its Aladdin analytics software. The software is also available for sale to other firms and has proved to be a popular option for competitors, a testament to its usefulness. 
More recently, the firm has shifted its focus to ESG offerings and incorporating ESG across its investment lineup, leading to a political backlash in the United States.
BlackRock isn’t the best at everything it tries to do, but retail investors, financial advisors, and large institutions could all build robust portfolios using BlackRock’s products.

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