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  1. 1 day ago · The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

  2. 1 day ago · A theory of mind includes the knowledge that others' beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions, and thoughts may be different from one's own. [1] Possessing a functional theory of mind is crucial for success in everyday human social interactions. People utilize a theory of mind when analyzing, judging, and inferring others' behaviors.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BlackRockBlackRock - Wikipedia

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    1988–1999

    BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, Robert S. Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater, Ralph Schlosstein, and Keith Anderson to provide institutional clients with asset management services from a risk management perspective. Fink, Kapito, Golub and Novick had worked together at First Boston, where Fink and his team were pioneers in the mortgage-backed securities market in the United States. During Fink's tenure, he had lost $90 million as head of First Boston. Th...

    1999–2009

    On 1 October 1999, BlackRock became a public company, selling shares at $14 each via an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. By the end of 1999, BlackRock was managing $165 billion in assets.BlackRock grew both organically and by acquisition. In 2000, under the direction of Charles Hallac, BlackRock launched BlackRock Solutions, its analytics and risk management division. The division grew from the Aladdin System, the enterprise investment system, Green Package, the Risk Re...

    2010–2019

    In February 2010, to raise capital needed during the financial crisis, Barclays sold its Global Investors unit (BGI), which included its exchange traded fund business, iShares, to BlackRock for US$13.5 billion and Barclays acquired a near-20% stake in BlackRock. On 1 April 2011, BlackRock was added as a component of the S&P 500 stock market index. In 2013, Fortunelisted BlackRock on its annual list of the world's 50 Most Admired Companies. In 2014, BlackRock's $4 trillion under management mad...

    In 2020, the non-profit American Economic Liberties Project issued a report highlighting the fact that "the 'Big Three' asset management firms – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – manage over $15 trillion in combined global assets under management, an amount equivalent to more than three-quarters of U.S. gross domestic product."The report calle...

    Influence and power

    Due to its power and the sheer size and scope of its financial assets and activities, BlackRock has been called the world's largest shadow bank.[by whom?] In 2020, U.S. Representatives Katie Porter and Jesús "Chuy" García proposed a U.S. House bill aiming to restrain BlackRock and other so-called shadow banks. On 4 March 2021, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that BlackRock should be designated "too big to fail", and should be regulated accordingly. BlackRock invests the funds of its c...

    Environmental, social and corporate governance investing

    In 2017, BlackRock expanded its environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) projects with new staff and products.[excessive citations] BlackRock started drawing attention to environmental and diversity issues by means of official letters to CEOs and shareholder votes together with activist investors or investor networks such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, which in 2017 backed a shareholder resolution for ExxonMobil to act on climate change. In 2018, it asked Russell 1000 companies...

    Investments in contributors to climate change

    As of December 2018, BlackRock was the world's largest investor in coal-fired power stations, holding shares worth $11 billion in 56 companies in the industry. BlackRock owned more oil, gas, and thermal coal reserves than any other investment management company with total reserves amounting to 9.5 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions or 30 percent of total energy-related emissions from 2017. Environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Amazon Watch launched a campaign in September 2018 called "B...

    As of 2024, Blackrock has a 17-person board of directors: 1. Larry Fink, Founder, Chairman and CEO 2. Bader M. Alsaad 3. Pamela Daley 4. William E. Ford 5. Fabrizio Freda 6. Murry S. Gerber 7. Margaret "Peggy" L. Johnson 8. Robert S. Kapito– founder and co-president 9. Cheryl D. Mills 10. Amin H. Nasser 11. Gordon M. Nixon 12. Kristin Peck 13. Char...

    Brooker, Katrina (29 October 2008). "Can this man save Wall Street?". Fortune.
    Foley, Stephen (2 April 2017). "BlackRock's active funds navigate rough seas". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: orig...
    Ungarino, Rebecca (30 December 2020). "Here are 9 fascinating facts to know about BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager popping up in the Biden administration". Business Insider.
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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OK_ComputerOK Computer - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997. With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997. They distanced themselves from the guitar-centred ...

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NinjaNinja - Wikipedia

    1 hour ago · A ninja ( Japanese: 忍者, lit. 'one who is invisible'; [ɲiꜜɲdʑa]) or shinobi ( Japanese: 忍び, lit. 'one who sneaks'; [ɕinobi]) was a covert agent, mercenary, or guerrilla warfare expert in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included siege and infiltration, ambush, reconnaissance, espionage, deception, and later bodyguarding and ...

  7. 1 day ago · The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property.