Ahmedabad, Oct 13 Robert Goldstein, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BlackRock, the world’s leading asset management company, met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar on Tuesday.
CM Patel expressed the state government’s willingness to support BlackRock’s rapid service expansion, and extended an invitation to join the upcoming Vibrant Summit 2027, an official release said.
“The welcome meeting was held in Gandhinagar as a fruitful outcome of the invitation extended by the Chief Minister to BlackRock to start operations in the GIFT City at Gandhinagar, in a one-to-one meeting held with BlackRock’s Global Head of Market Development Samara Cohen during his (CM’s) recent visit to the US along with a high-level delegation to promotion of Vibrant Summit-2027,” it said.
The CM shared Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to make GIFT City a global financial and technology gateway with increasing presence of banking assets, fund commitments and international financial institutes, the release said.
Goldstein shared with the CM the details of BlackRock’s progress since its inception in 1988, and said it provides investment management and financial technology services to institutional investors, governments, corporations and individual investors worldwide.
Through the company’s best-known investment product, the iShares ETF (Exchange Traded Funds), investors get the facility to invest in various equity, fixed income, commodity and multi-asset markets, he told the CM.
(PTI News)
