BlackRock, Inc. is an American global investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is one of the world’s largest asset managers with $6.84 trillion in assets under management as of August 2019.[3] BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries.

Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., (since 1995, d.b.a. Edward Jones Investments), simplified as Edward Jones, is a financial services firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It serves investment clients in the U.S. and Canada, through its branch network consists of more than 14,000 locations. The company currently has relationships with nearly 7 million clients and $1 trillion in assets, under management worldwide. The firm focuses solely on individual investors and small-business owners. Edward Jones is a subsidiary of The Jones Financial Companies, L.L.L.P., a limited liability limited partnership owned only by its employees and retired employees and is not publicly traded. Edward Jones appointed Penny Pennington as managing partner, effective January 2019, making her the firm’s sixth managing partner and the only woman to lead a major U.S. brokerage firm.