{"id":1156,"date":"2009-06-12T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:33:09","slug":"blackrock-creates-behemoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/12\/blackrock-creates-behemoth\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock creates behemoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a title=\"$13.5 billion purchase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aP8IpRzYSu2o\" target=\"_blank\">$13.5 billion purchase <\/a>of Barclays Global Investors, the re-named BlackRock Global Investors will have more than $2.7 trillion in assets under management &#8212; about twice its nearest competitor.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Israel Shaked\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/ShakedIsrael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Shaked<\/a>, an M&amp;A expert, can discuss the scope and impact of this deal.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Israel Shaked, 617-353-2665, <a href=\"mailto:shaked@bu.edu\">shaked@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the $13.5 billion purchase of Barclays Global Investors, the re-named BlackRock Global Investors will have more than $2.7 trillion in assets under management &#8212; about twice its nearest competitor.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Israel Shaked, an M&amp;A expert, can discuss the scope and impact of this deal. Contact Israel Shaked, 617-353-2665, shaked@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1238,1237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}