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Introduction to BlackRock

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Introduction to BlackRock

Our subject today is BlackRock, which is an entity that I have to admit before 2020, I was not aware of. So what is it and what do people need to know?

BlackRock is a fund manager, which essentially means that it takes the aggregate investments of a large number of people or a large number of organizations, who in turn are collecting investments from large numbers of people and buys the stocks and shares and bonds and any other investments they want to make. They claim they are able to do this in a more…

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