Tag Archives: bgi
Barclays and BlackRock: Passive-Aggressive
June 15, 2009 : Permalink
Barrons – A big question surrounding BlackRock’s $13.5 billion purchase of Barclays Global Investors, including its iShares exchange-traded-funds business, is how effectively a passive management group can work with an active one. The combined firm will have more than 9,000 […]
Barclays in talks with BlackRock on BGI sale
June 8, 2009 : Permalink
Financial Post – Barclays PLC, the U.K.’s third-largest bank, is in talks with BlackRock Inc. and other bidders to sell its asset management division for more than US$10-billion. BlackRock, the world’s biggest publicly traded asset manager, is the leading contender […]
