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Variable Interest Entities (Tables)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Consolidated Variable Interest Entities [Member]  
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]  
Schedule of VIE Assets and Liabilities

Consolidated VIE assets and liabilities are presented after intercompany eliminations in the following table:

 

 

 

June 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

(in millions)

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Assets of consolidated VIEs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

74

 

 

$

84

 

Investments

 

 

1,194

 

 

 

1,008

 

Other assets

 

 

50

 

 

 

63

 

Total investments and other assets

 

 

1,244

 

 

 

1,071

 

Liabilities of consolidated VIEs

 

 

(295

)

 

 

(216

)

Noncontrolling interests

 

 

(255

)

 

 

(207

)

BlackRock's net interests in consolidated VIEs

 

$

768

 

 

$

732

 

 

Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary [Member]  
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]  
Schedule of VIE Assets and Liabilities

At June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the Company’s carrying value of assets and liabilities included on the condensed consolidated statements of financial condition pertaining to nonconsolidated VIEs and its maximum risk of loss related to VIEs for which it held a variable interest, but for which it was not the PB, was as follows:

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At June 30, 2017

 

Investments

 

 

Advisory Fee Receivables

 

 

Other Net Assets (Liabilities)

 

 

Maximum Risk of Loss(1)

 

Sponsored investment products

 

$

228

 

 

$

12

 

 

$

(7

)

 

$

257

 

At December 31, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored investment products

 

$

171

 

 

$

9

 

 

$

(8

)

 

$

197

 

 

 

(1)

At both June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, BlackRock’s maximum risk of loss associated with these VIEs primarily related to BlackRock’s investments and the collection of advisory fee receivables.