was planning to sell iShares to CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm that had agreed to pay more than $4 billion. However, under a 45-day "go shop" clause, a later bid by BlackRock was announced on 11 June 2009 for the whole of the parent division Barclays Global Investors including iShares, in a mixed cash-stock deal worth around US$13.5 billion (37.8 million shares of common stock and US$6.6 billion in cash). iShares has increased the number of its "iShares Core" funds. iShares is among the asset managers with the largest amount of sustainable fund flows in 2020 with $14.5 billion as of September 30, 2020. See also ETF Securities IPath List of exchange-traded funds PowerShares SPDR References External links Exchange-traded funds Financial services companies established in 2000 2009 mergers and acquisitions BlackRock