FILE PHOTO: A sign for BlackRock Inc hangs above their building in New York Reuters Blackrock has ordered its 16,000 employees to inform their managers of romantic, sexual, or personal relationships they have with...
Steve Marcus/Reuters BlackRock's Rick Rieder told Bloomberg on Friday that the stock market's sell-off Thursday was a "healthy" recalibration. He said the volume and price of call options leading up to...
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst for Malwarebytes, about...
Christoph Koch didn’t get into activist investing to boost his stock portfolio. He did it for his honeybees. In the spring of 2008, the German beekeeper nearly lost his livelihood when his bees started dying—at...
Ask a broad swathe of leaders in the public, private, and academic sectors what the most likely risks to the global economy are, and the top five will be variations on environmental destruction. But ask a group only...
American automotive technology startup Rivian has raised $1.3 billion in new funding, the company announced today. The new investment is the fourth round of capital announced by the company in 2019 alone, following prior announcements of $700 million led by Amazon, $500 million from Ford (which includes a collaboration on electric vehicle technology) and $350 million from Cox Automotive. That’s a lot of money, but Rivian’s not...
During my recent conversation with Peter Kraus, which was supposed to be focused on Aperture and its launch of the Aperture New World Opportunities Fund, I couldn’t help veering off into tangents about the market in general. Below is Kraus’ take on the availability of alpha generation, the Fed, inflation versus Amazon, housing, the cross-ownership of U.S. equities by a few huge funds and high-frequency trading. Gregg Schoenberg:...
No essay today, as I'm racing to the finish line on a magazine story. But I will leave you with a little inspiration from the world of big finance. It comes by way of Laurence D. Fink, the founder and CEO of the investment firm BlackRock, which manages some $6 trillion in investments through 401(k)s, mutual funds and other financial instruments. It's a pointed call to action to other leaders to get busy saving the world. He's written a...
SPEAKER BIOS Andrew Rothstein Andrew Rothstein, Managing Director, is a member of BlackRock Solutions’ Financial Modeling Group currently leading the Advanced Data Analytics team. Mr. Rothstein’s primary responsibilities include managing a team of quantitative analysts and software engineers practicing data science in the pursuit of higher quality more predictive residential mortgage prepayment and credit models. Prior to focusing...
