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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[SSD] Simpson Manufacturing
what did Warren Buffett see in Simpson Manufacturing?
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Wise and the business of cross-border transfers: part 2
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Wise and the business of cross-border transfers: part 1
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[AEP.V] Atlas Engineered Products
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Building materials: part 3a (BLDR, AEP.V)
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