BlackRock shares rose to a record, climbing as much as 2.5 percent to $331.90 in New York trading. The stock advanced 3.6 percent this year through yesterday, including reinvested dividends, compared with the 2 percent increase in the Standard & Poor's 18-company index of asset managers and custody banks.

Markets Rise

BlackRock, which earns fees based on the amount of money it oversees for clients, benefited from rising global markets in the second quarter, which boosted assets 4.4 percent to $4.59 trillion. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index increased 5.2 percent during the second quarter and the MSCI All Country World Index of global stocks rose 5.4 percent.

BlackRock, co-founded by Fink in 1988, acquired Barclays Global Investors in December 2009 to expand into passive investments such as exchange-traded funds. The firm also offers actively managed stock and bond funds, hedge funds and portfolios that use mathematical models.

The firm attracted about $30.4 billion into its iShares ETFs during the quarter, with more than two-thirds of that going into equity products. Investors pulled $5.3 billion from the firm's active stock funds, while putting $9.6 billion into actively managed bond strategies. About 90 percent of BlackRock's taxable bond assets are beating benchmarks or peer medians over the past three years, the firm said.

BlackRock's multi-asset offerings, including the Multi- Asset Income Fund, drew almost $7 billion in investor money during the quarter.

"Fastest-Growing"

"It's one of the fastest-growing multi-asset product funds in the world and it's just an example of the depth of our platform," Fink said today in an interview.

The firm has sought to increase assets in higher-fee products such as active stock strategies and non-traditional investments such as hedge funds. This month, BlackRock said it hired Chris Jones, formerly at JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s asset- management unit, as co-head of its global fundamental equity business. Last month, the firm hired Harvard Management Co.'s Mark McKenna to start an event-driven hedge fund.

Large money managers such as BlackRock are among nonbank financial companies that the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council is evaluating to determine whether they require Federal Reserve oversight. FSOC discussed and agreed to review BlackRock and Fidelity Investments, two people with knowledge of the matter said in November.

Fink said in the interview today that the regulatory process for identifying systemic risks needs to be more transparent and that there's "honestly no dialogue" between regulators and the companies.

Innuendos, Leaks

"We don't how how that process is going and unfortunately we learn it through innuendos and leaks," Fink said.

BlackRock has faced regulatory scrutiny this year, including a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed June 17. The regulator's staff is recommending action against one of BlackRock's units over a former money manager, Daniel J. Rice III, who used its funds to invest in a company with which he had financial ties. BlackRock said it doesn't believe it violated provisions mentioned by the SEC and it doesn't expect any resolution of the matter to have a material impact on its financial results.

–With assistance from Meghan Morris in New York.