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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Planet Money, Ep. #647 (Hard Work Is Irrelevant) “To get a job [at Netflix] and to keep it, you have to accomplish great things. Here’s another slide [from Netflix’s presentation on its principles]…’We are a team, not a family. And we are a Pro sports team, not a kid’s recreational team.’ In other words, if […]