Samara Cohen on Managing ETFs (Podcast)
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Samara Cohen, who is chief investment officer of ETF and index investments at BlackRock. Her group oversees more than $3 trillion of BlackRock's $10 trillion in assets under management.
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| 0:54.0 | This week on the podcast, I have yet another special guest, extra special guest. |
| 1:02.0 | Samara Cohn is the Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock, where she manages ETFs and index investing. |
| 1:10.0 | BlackRock is $10 trillion. Their ETF business is over $3 trillion. Their index business is also over $3 trillion. |
| 1:20.0 | Samara is consistently on everybody's list of most influential women and finance. |
| 1:28.0 | But that's not why you want to listen to this. |
| 1:31.0 | You want to listen to this because they're really very few people in the world, more knowledgeable about managing ETFs, |
| 1:39.0 | managing indexes, what passive really means, how people should be thinking about the actual engineering of products |
| 1:49.0 | if you want to have broad market exposure or specific types of beta. |
| 1:55.0 | Really, I'm going to stop talking and just say with no further ado, my conversation with Samara Cohn. |
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| 2:11.0 | My extra special guest this week is Samara Cohn. |
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