Challenging times for investors — whether because of regulatory complications or asset prices moving in unexpected ways — present growth opportunities for asset management giant BlackRock and particularly BlackRock Solutions (BRS), the systems and advisory unit Robert Goldstein has headed since 2009. BlackRock “helps people understand and gain transparency into their portfolios and associated processing activities,” he explains. “Everything happening in the world, from continued liquidity challenges to the increased correlations between asset classes, comes back to transparency.” Demand from other firms for trading, analytics and risk management solutions helped push BRS’s revenue up 11 percent last year, to $577 million. Now the unit is considering extending its capabilities to a broader audience, such as financial advisers, says the 40-year-old Goldstein, who joined New York–based BlackRock as an analyst in 1994 with a BS in economics from New York State’s Binghamton University. He climbed the ranks to become global head of institutional client business in 2012 and, effective July 2014, to COO — all the while running BRS. Goldstein helped launch the unit in 2000 under the leadership of Charles Hallac, the architect of BRS’s flagship Aladdin investment platform and now co-president of BlackRock. Pursuing technology-assisted solutions to the fixed-income-liquidity puzzle, BlackRock has formed partnerships linking its Aladdin Trading Network with both MarketAxess Holdings (extended in May to include an iShares exchange-traded-funds program) and Tradeweb Markets.
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| Thomas Secunda Bloomberg | Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange | Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. | Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments | Lance Uggla Markit |
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| Robert Goldstein BlackRock | David Craig Thomson Reuters | Phupinder Gill CME Group | Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group | R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group |
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| Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures | Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse | Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings | Michael Spencer ICAP | Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. |
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| Joe Ratterman BATS Global Markets | Dominique Cerutti Euronext | Ron Levi GFI Group | Gaurav Suri D.E. Shaw Group | Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing |
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| Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ | Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets | Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings | Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings | Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group |
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| Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. | Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. | Peter Carr Morgan Stanley | Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse | Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. |
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| David Gershon SuperDerivatives | Chris Corrado MSCI | Joseph Squeri Citadel | Tanuja Randery BT Global Services | John Bates Software AG |
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| Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group | David Gledhill DBS Bank | Simon Garland Kx Systems | Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab | Jeff Parker EidoSearch |
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| Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank | Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates | Tyler Kim MaplesFS | Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. | Jim Minnick eVestment |
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| Steven O’Hanlon Numerix | Sebastián Ceria Axioma | Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute | Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners | Mas Nakachi OpenGamma |