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Profile: BlackRock Smaller Companies

12th June 2024

UPDATE: In early 2026, BlackRock Smaller Companies merged with its sister fund, BlackRock Throgmorton. It has switched to paying quarterly dividends and will offer triennial, performance-related 100% tender offers.

BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC) dates back to 1906 and has long been a UK small-cap specialist. It was run by 3i for many years before its manager, Mike Prentis, and its management contract was moved to Merrill Lynch in 2005 after 3i decided to stop managing public equity funds. Merrill Lynch Investment Management soon became part of BlackRock and Prentis went on to deliver 16 ...

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