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BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$11.5 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. [1]
In December 2009, BlackRock purchased Barclays Global Investors, at which point the company became the largest money-management firm in the world. [3] Despite his great influence, Fink is not widely known publicly, apart from his regular appearances on CNBC. [3] BlackRock paid Fink $23.6 million in 2010, [19] and $36 million in 2021. [20]
BlackRock is also spending $3.2 billion to buy Preqin, a private markets data provider, that has yet to close. Since surpassing $9 trillion AUM in early 2023, BlackRock was said to be on the hunt ...
The HPS deal is BlackRock's third sizable acquisition in 2024, and all involved a deeper push into alternative assets. Earlier this year, it agreed to buy London data provider Preqin for $3.2 ...
"Record government deficits and tighter bank lending means people, companies, and countries will increasingly turn to markets to finance their retirements, their business, and their economies", he ...
Prior to retiring from BlackRock in 2012, [10] Wagner expanded the company into Asia, the Middle East and Brazil. [11] Since retiring from BlackRock, she is on their board of directors, and a member of the board of trustees of the Hackley School. [12] In May 2014, Wagner was asked by Wellesley's class of 2014 to deliver the commencement address ...
(Reuters) -BlackRock will buy private credit firm HPS Investment Partners for about $12 billion in an all-stock deal, the companies said on Tuesday, as the world's largest asset manager seeks to ...
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [2]: 45–56 [3] The founders derived their firm's name from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros", or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα, the masculine and feminine rendering of the word, respectively) means "stone" or ...