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Tag: BlackRock Inc

GOP Sen. Hoeven bought up to $250,000 in health fund after briefing

GOP Sen. Hoeven bought up to $250,000 in health fund after briefing

GOP Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 of stock in a fund invested in health sciences companies in late January, just days after attending a briefing on the federal government’s response to the coronavirus. The Jan. 29 purchase of shares in the BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II fund, detailed in Hoeven’s financial disclosure […]

Start-up partners with BlackRock to offer investments used by the rich

Start-up partners with BlackRock to offer investments used by the rich

A digital platform that offers alternative investments to the masses is attempting to broaden its appeal with a new fund created with BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager. For the last five years, New York-based start-up YieldStreet has been giving its users access to a category of deals that had previously been the domain of […]

Climate crisis investors putting money towards sustainable future

Climate crisis investors putting money towards sustainable future

The dangers of local weather change are already impacting traders, with more and more frequent local weather disasters like wildfires, drought, flooding and heatwaves threatening enterprise operations and properties the world over.   Many traders are actually selecting to funnel their cash into investments that handle local weather change danger, and asset managers are dashing […]