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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[APO] Apollo
Apollo and what even is private credit?
June 19, 2026
The term “private credit” labors under the weight of negative connotations, yet remains poorly defined. [...]
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[scuttleslops] AAPL, NVDA, TYL, FISV, APO, ROL
June 17, 2026
Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Gartner, Visa/Mastercard, Tractor Supply, U-Haul, Apollo, Zoetis, and CCC [...]
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[scuttleslops] AMZN, CME, IQV, WIX, SNOW, VEEV, GWRE
June 10, 2026
What are scuttleslops? [scuttleslops] AMZN, CME, IQV, WIX, SNOW, VEEV, GWRE Mobile Dev Memo Podcast [...]
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[VRSK] Verisk has standards
June 8, 2026
Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Gartner, Verisk, Visa/Mastercard, Tractor Supply, U-Haul, Apollo, Zoetis, and [...]
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[scuttleslops] SPOT, UMG, TXN, SPGI, TRU, ADSK, MTCH, CSGP, DLTR
June 1, 2026
What are scuttleslops? The very first scuttleslop! Let me know what you think. Again, the [...]
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