{"id":16849,"date":"2010-07-22T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16849"},"modified":"2010-07-22T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:19:20","slug":"hedge-fund-giant-blackrocks-profit-up-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/hedge-fund-giant-blackrocks-profit-up-98.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Giant BlackRock&#8217;s Profit Up 98%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Bloomberg reports that BlackRock&#8217;s  second-quarter profit rose 98% after the acquisition of Barclays Global Investors boosted their income.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing into the merger we knew that some clients would have to address concentration issues and that the active quantitative style was under stress industrywide,\u201d Chief Executive Officer Laurence D. Fink said in a statement, according to Bloomberg. \u201cAs expected, these two issues continued to drive outflows, and are expected to do so for at least another quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Net income rose to $432 million, or $2.21 a share, from $218 million, or $1.59 a share, a year earlier.&#8221; The mega hedge fund manager said\u00a0in\u00a0the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <br \/>Editor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Bloomberg reports that BlackRock&#8217;s second-quarter profit rose 98% after the acquisition of Barclays Global Investors boosted their income. \u201cGoing into the merger we knew that some clients would have to address concentration issues and that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news","category-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849","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=16849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16851,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16849\/revisions\/16851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}