Aperio (BlackRock)
Tax-Managed Equity SMA
Open
- Assets
- $175B
- Fee a year
- 0.40%
- Minimum
- Not disclosed
- Tracking error
- Not disclosed
- Accounts
- 33,000
- Open to
- Anyone
- Lock-up
- None
- Holdings
- Not disclosed
- Benchmark
- Not disclosed
- Custodians
- Not disclosed
- Access
- Through an advisor, on advisor platforms
- Launched
- Not disclosed
- Assets, in detail
- As of 2026-09. BlackRock CFO, Q3 2026 earnings call (2026-10-14): long-only direct indexing AUM is $175B, with about $13B of net inflows in 2026 to date. Earlier: $149B and 33K accounts (2025-12-31, BlackRock Aperio page). Aperio's Form ADV Part 2A (2026-03-31) gives $152.1B regulatory AUM in 33,901 accounts at 2025-12-31, for all Aperio client assets.
- Fee schedule
- Aperio's Form ADV Part 2A (2026-03-31) says wrap program fees paid to Aperio range up to 0.40%, by product. The standard fee table in the brochure is an image, and the product page does not list fees.
- Tracking error, method
- Not disclosed.
- Loss harvesting
- BlackRock: about $3B gross losses harvested in 2025 across all Aperio tax-managed accounts.
Assets over time
Sources
Checked 2026-10. Confidence: high.
- BlackRock Aperio tax-managed equity SMA page
- BlackRock Q3 2026 earnings call transcript (2026-10-14)
- Aperio Group Form ADV Part 2A (2026-03-31): $152.1B AUM at 2025-12-31
- InvestmentNews: Aperio $110.9B in direct indexing assets (Cerulli, year-end 2024)
- Frec: tax-aware long short providers 2026 comparison (third party)
Where to get it
The same product costs a different amount through each door. The all-in fee adds the access provider's own fee to the product fee. Placement fees, financing, and fund expenses are extra.
No access provider in our data names this product yet.
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