{"id":16498,"date":"2010-07-01T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16498"},"modified":"2010-07-01T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:29:19","slug":"blackrock%e2%80%99s-novick-goes-to-washington-as-firms-step-up-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/blackrock%e2%80%99s-novick-goes-to-washington-as-firms-step-up-lobbying.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock\u2019s Novick Goes to Washington as Firms Step Up Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; BlackRock Inc.\u2019s Barbara Novick was  contemplating retirement a year ago when Chief Executive Officer  Laurence D. Fink asked her if she would jumpstart lobbying efforts in  Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Barclays Global Investors on  Dec. 1 had made BlackRock the world\u2019s biggest asset-management firm.  With $3.4 trillion client assets held in investment vehicles ranging  from money-market funds to hedge funds, Fink realized he couldn\u2019t rely  on industry groups or outside lobbyists as lawmakers discussed the  biggest regulatory overhaul since the 1930s. Novick, one of the firm\u2019s  eight founders, accepted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-07-01\/blackrock-s-novick-goes-to-washington-as-firms-step-up-lobbying.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; BlackRock Inc.\u2019s Barbara Novick was contemplating retirement a year ago when Chief Executive Officer Laurence D. Fink asked her if she would jumpstart lobbying efforts in Washington. The acquisition of Barclays Global Investors on Dec. 1 had made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16500,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions\/16500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}