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BlackRock: voting policy and stewardship reports

BlackRock’s published proxy voting policy, edition by edition, and its annual stewardship reports, its own account of how it voted and engaged. How it actually voted is on its N‑PX voting record.

Voting policy

The firm’s own guidelines for how it votes, by the year of the edition held in the policy library.

2026	BlackRock voting policy, 2026 PDF
2025	BlackRock voting policy, 2025 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2024	BlackRock voting policy, 2024 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2023	BlackRock voting policy, 2023 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2022	BlackRock voting policy, 2022 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2021	BlackRock voting policy, 2021 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2020	BlackRock voting policy, 2020 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2019	BlackRock voting policy, 2019 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive
2018	BlackRock voting policy, 2018 PDF · copy captured by the Internet Archive

Stewardship reports

The manager’s annual account of its stewardship, by the reporting year it covers. Self-reported: the figures in it are not audited.

2025	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 4.8 MB · blackrock.com Also: Stewardship report · UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by BlackRock Inc · PDF, 8.0 MB · frc.org.uk
2024	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 3.3 MB · archived copy, captured May 24, 2025 (originally on blackrock.com) Also: Stewardship report · UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by BlackRock Inc · PDF, 3.3 MB · archived copy, captured August 26, 2025 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)
2023	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 10.2 MB · archived copy, captured May 7, 2024 (originally on blackrock.com) Also: Stewardship report · UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by BlackRock Inc · PDF, 10.2 MB · archived copy, captured January 9, 2025 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)
2022	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 14.5 MB · archived copy, captured May 6, 2023 (originally on blackrock.com) Also: Stewardship report · UK Stewardship Code filing (FRC), filed by BlackRock Inc · PDF, 14.5 MB · archived copy, captured December 27, 2023 (originally on media.frc.org.uk)
2021	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 16.0 MB · archived copy, captured April 3, 2022 (originally on blackrock.com)
2020	Investment Stewardship Annual Report Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 13.0 MB · archived copy, captured March 1, 2022 (originally on blackrock.com) Also: Investment Stewardship Annual Report (proxy year to June 30) · Firm-wide report published by BlackRock Investment Stewardship · PDF, 6.9 MB · archived copy, captured October 29, 2020 (originally on blackrock.com)