Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Edwin Conway, the global head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). BAI, one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment giant BlackRock – which is itself the world’s largest asset manager, with $9.46 trillion in assets under management – manages more than $300 billion and has more than 1,000 employees. Conway chairs the BAI Executive Committee and oversees the strategic direction of BlackRock’s Alternatives platform.
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11/24/21 • 70 min
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Masters in Business - Edwin Conway on BlackRock Alternative Investors (Podcast)
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This is mesters in Business with very results on Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1This week, on the podcast Man, I have an extra special guest. Edwin Conway runs all of alternatives for Black Rocks. His title is Global Head of Alternative Investors, and he covers everything from structured credit, to real estate, to hedge funds to you name it. Uh. The group runs over three hundred billion dollars and he has b
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How has BlackRock's alternatives business been restructured?
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