The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Edwin Conway is The Architect by disposition and by method. His work building BlackRock's alternatives platform is deliberate and structural rather than opportunistic, engineering cross-asset scalability within regulatory constraints from the outset. The vocabulary tells its own story, building platforms, scaling across asset classes, democratising access through product structuring and education.
“Day across the world, including like I said, an APAC in scale, there's an opportunity on both sides. And I think that's where the acid mix change happens. It's recognizing that the attributes of these assets can have a role. The attributes of these assets can potentially replace some of these traditional assets.”
“If you look at the public equity side, for example, the large cap manager top quartile versus bottom quartile, it's measured in hundreds of basis points.”
“Transition industry to cleaner technologies, a movement not away completely from fossil fuels, but integrating new types of clean energy. And as a result, you've seen a lot of demand on a global basis for wind and solar.”
“That speaks to the shortfall relative to the ambition. And how is it been going? We have a number of things and capabilities we've set up to allow for this market to experience, hopefully, private equity, hedge funds, credit and infrastructure in ways they haven't in the past. We've done it in the US. We're doing it now in Europe.”
Masters in Business: “Edwin Conway on BlackRock Alternative Investors (Podcast)”
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