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BlackRock CEO outlines post-merger vision

Larry Fink discusses integrating Merrill Lynch Investment Management, asset classes and products to build, and competing on a global scale.

Jame DiBiasio

October 25, 2006

Laurence Fink is chairman and CEO of BlackRock, a firm he helped found in New York. It has become a $1 trillion independent asset manager in the wake of this yearÆs acquisition of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. During a visit to Hong Kong yesterday he made time to speak with AsianInvestor magazine.

AsianInvestor Why will BlackRock be a better firm after the MLIM acquisition

Larry Fink It might not. The last thing I want to sound is overconfident. But there is a high probability that we will become a better firm.

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