How the world’s largest asset manager is using nearly $28 billion of acquisitions to reinvent itself

How the world’s largest asset manager is using nearly  billion of acquisitions to reinvent itself


Marquee at the main entrance to BlackRock headquarters building in Manhattan.
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BlackRock has been on a buying spree that will change the makeup of the world’s biggest asset manager. 



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