BlackRock - Investor Profile
Institutional Investor Background
BlackRock was founded in 1988 by current CEO Laurence D. Fink as a division of the Blackstone Group. The firm is now owned by Bank of America (34.1%), the PNC Financial...
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Founders and Key Executives of BlackRock: Laurence D. Fink
Entities related to BlackRock: BlackRock Equity Funds; Bank of America; PNC Financial Services; State Street Research & Management; Merrill Lynch Investment Managers; Barclays Global Investors; Blackstone Group*
Related Firms (See Investor Background for more Details): Barclays Capital; | Fortress Investment Group | *Denotes that the person or entity is no longer related to the firm.
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Top hedge funds lead industry assets to $1.3 Trillion mark |
| Date: March 14th, 2011 |
| Hedge fund industry assets in the United States for managers with more than $1 billion in assets under management grew by $115 billion during 2010, reaching... |
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Investors Will Win the ETF Price War |
| Date: March 1st, 2011 |
| Many hedge fund traders are unhappy about the current near monopoly enjoyed by the top three ETF issuers, |
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Hedge Fund Job Report: GoldenTree, Tudor Investment Corporation, RAB Capital, Matrix Group |
| Date: December 20th, 2010 |
| In this week’s hedge fund job report, we look at recent moves made by GoldenTree Asset Management LLC, Tudor Investment Corporation, RAB Capital and... |
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How Powerful are Proxy Advisors? |
| Date: October 28th, 2010 |
Anyone else catch this interesting artifact of the recent tiff between Len Riggio and Ron Burkle?
So, what made the difference [in the... |
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Goldman Principal Strategies’ Stars are Moving on: Perella Weinberg, Carlyle, PIMCO, KKR, BlackRock? |
| Date: September 10th, 2010 |
| Since last week’s announcement that Goldman Sachs was shutting down its venerated principal strategies group to comply with the Dodd-Frank act, news... |
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BlackRock to launch an Asian Credit Hedge Fund |
| Date: March 4th, 2010 |
| BlackRock Inc is planning to launch the BlackRock Asian Credit Hedge Fund sometime this month. According Bloomberg, the hedge fund will invest in Asian... |
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Fortress Investment Group launching new hedge funds to meet demand |
| Date: December 11th, 2009 |
| Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG.N), a global hedge fund and asset management firm, has benefitted from the recent increase in demand for alternative... |
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Elliott Management, WestSpring Advisors, Marshall Wace and Scout make New Hires |
| Date: September 16th, 2009 |
| In this week’s hire report, we look at recent hires made by hedge fund managers Elliott Management, WestSpring Advisors and Marshall Wace Asset Management... |
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Martin Whitman’s Third Avenue Management Launches Value-Focused Credit Fund |
| Date: September 9th, 2009 |
| Third Avenue Management announced yesterday that it was launching the Third Avenue Focused Credit mutual fund. Third Avenue and its Co-Chief Investment... |
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Kapstream Plans to Double Assets |
| Date: July 23rd, 2009 |
| Kapstream Capital has announced plans to nearly double its total assets under management over the course of the next month, according to Bloomberg. The... |
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BlackRock's Power to Influence |
| Date: June 18th, 2009 |
| BlackRock's(BLK) announcement last week that it would purchase Barclays Global Investors from U.K. bank Barclays(BCS) for $13.5 billion confirmed that... |
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BlackRock Leading Race for iShares and BGI |
| Date: June 8th, 2009 |
| BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) and Barclays plc (BCS) confirmed this morning in separate press releases that BlackRock is engaged in discussions to purchase Barclays’... |
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BlackRock Co-Founder Ralph Schlosstein Joins Evercore as CEO |
| Date: May 25th, 2009 |
| On Friday, Evercore Partners (EVR) announced that Ralph Schlosstein has joined the firm as President and Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Evercore’s... |
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Fortress Takes Over Zwirn’s Hedge Fund Assets |
| Date: April 29th, 2009 |
| Bloomberg reports that Fortress Investment Group (FIG) has been chosen by the board and top investors of D.B. Zwirn & Co. to liquidate the Zwirn’s $2.5... |
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Funds investing in Agriculture |
| Date: June 5th, 2008 |
| Investment funds are starting to show interest in not only commodities
like wheat and corn but also farmland and other necessary structures
for agriculture.... |
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