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BlackRock was buying lots of GLD while fumbling its own gold fund
How BlackRock Took a Shine to a Competitor's Gold ETF
By Leslie Josephs
The Wall Street Journal
Monday, March 14, 2016
BlackRock, whose popular exchange-traded gold product briefly suspended the creation of new shares this month due to an administrative error amid a surge in demand, has been making a hefty bet on a gold ETF lately.
But here's the twist: It was a competitor's ETF.
BlackRock revealed in a regulatory filing Thursday that it had built a 13% stake -- worth about $4 billion -- in the largest exchange-traded gold product, the more than $32 billion SPDR Gold Trust. BlackRock held a roughly 5% stake in the ETF -- known by its ticker, GLD -- it said in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission a month earlier.
In addition to holding the title of world's biggest provider of exchange-traded funds by assets, BlackRock is the world's biggest asset manager with $4.6 trillion under management as of the end of last year. It operates a number of mutual funds and other investment products, and several of them could have been buying shares of GLD. ...
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http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/03/14/how-blackrock-took-a-shine-to-...
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