BlackRock quarterly profit beats analyst expectations

World's biggest money manager posts impressive fouth quarter earnings – but suffers $38.7bn in outflows from the acquisition of BGI

BlackRock's fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as revenue surged, helping results beat estimates.

The world's biggest money manager has benefited in recent quarters from its $13.5bn purchase of Barclays Global Investors in December 2009, which boosted the vast book of investments it collects fees to manage.

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