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Schwarzman

The surname appears without a firstname. I thought we only did that for musicians, like Cher, Bono and Madonna.

Article needs major expansion

From cover article in The Economist [1] [2], noting it is "easily the biggest investor in the world", it is clear that BlackRock matters. As well as its $4.1 trillion of directly controlled assets (almost as much as all private-equity and hedge funds put together)(already mentioned) it oversees another $11 trillion through its trading platform, Aladdin (needs own article?), we are told - together giving it control over around 7% of all the shares, bonds and loans in the world.
Also, let's say that the helping the US government in 2008-09 was after and because of the financial crisis. Much material from these sources but I don't feel qualified to mess with the lead. Moreover, it seems to be hardly mentioned in other WP articles. This needs to be embedded in places it links to, starting with the firms it holds significant stakes in.
Onanoff (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Aladdin, is part of BLK. Wall Street Guy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallstreetguy (talk • contribs) 23:53, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The points made in the OP here by Onanoff are still true, over 3 years later! Boscaswell talk 19:59, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested edit

FutureAdvisor employee here, so requesting an edit here to stay in line with WP:DISCLOSURE. The AUM figure is pretty old and, at the time of the acquisition, is off by a factor of 3. Could someone change the last sentence in BlackRock#2010 onwards to:

On August 26, 2015, BlackRock entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FutureAdvisor,[1] a digital wealth management provider with reported assets under management of over $600 million.[2]

142.254.23.146 (talk) 19:11, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Altamel (talk) 17:40, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ "BlackRock to Acquire FutureAdvisor". BlackRock Press Releases. BlackRock. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ Tepper, Fitz (June 24, 2015). "YC Alum FutureAdvisor Is Now Managing $600 Million In Assets". TechCrunch. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

Promo Lingo

Just removed some blatantly peacock promotional/PR language from the History section. Clear violation of WP:PROMO. Not having an inline citation to work with, I interpreted the peacock talk into more down to earth language. If anyone can do it better in the same spirit/intention, please do. I'm also intending to tag the article as not having enough inline citations, especially for the History section. Tapered (talk) 21:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Tapered: I agree, the History section needs far more inline citiations for support. If I can find the time, I'll go through and try and find reliable sources. Meatsgains (talk) 22:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm actually having a tough time finding sources verifying the content in the History section. While I don't necessarily think we should remove it, we may have to cut it back some until we can find references. Thoughts? Meatsgains (talk) 23:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Article *still* needs major expansion!

Some three years after Onanoff told everyone why. BlackRock is massive, as in *massive*. Boscaswell talk 20:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Wildfowl (talk) 18:50, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I took a glance at your edits, I think they look good. Benji the Pen (talk) 15:09, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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