Back in June 2009, reeling from the financial crisis and desperate to fix its balance sheet, Barclays agreed to sell Barclays Global Investors (BGI) to BlackRock, who paid ~$13.5bn in cash and stock for BGI’s ~$1tn in assets, which included $385bn in AUM from its vaunted iShares ETF franchise. Over the last 8 years, iShares […]
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[DHR] Danaher
[DHR] Danaher
May 23, 2023
Related post (read this first): [TMO] Thermo Fisher The life sciences behemoth we now know [...]
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yet another Schwab post
May 14, 2023
(our regularly scheduled life sciences programming resumes in a week or so) Schwab lost a [...]
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[TMO] Thermo Fisher
April 23, 2023
Most of the time the subjects of my writing are more similar than they appear. [...]
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[APH] Amphenol + quick $APG follow-up
April 5, 2023
Soon after I published a bullish post on APi Group last week, a few Twitter [...]
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[APG] APi Group
March 28, 2023
I was going to combine APG and APH into a single write-up but now I’m [...]
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