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BlackRock fires Mark Wiseman for failing to disclose personal relationship

‘I engaged in a consensual relationship with one of our colleagues without reporting it. I regret my mistake’

Mark Wiseman
Mark Wiseman Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters

A potential heir apparent to the top job at BlackRock has been ousted from the money management giant for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a colleague.

Mark Wiseman, who rose from Canada’s public-pension world to become a protégé to BlackRock’s chief executive, Laurence Fink, was terminated for violating the company’s policy.

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