BLACKROCK CEO: Russia-Ukraine War To Trigger New World Order
Russia’s war on Ukraine will trigger a new “world order” taking globalisation into a different phase, BlackRock’s billionaire CEO Larry Fink told an investment conference on Monday.
Fink, who heads the world’s largest asset management company, said faltering supply chains would force firms to seek suppliers closer to home, up-ending the current model.
Speaking at the Investopia conference in Dubai, Fink denied predicting the end of globalisation, as was widely interpreted from his comments in a letter to shareholders last week.
“But what I did write about is how we frame globalisation over the last 30 years is changing,” he said.
“And I do believe the Ukraine-Russia war is going to accelerate a change that was beginning even before because of Covid,” said Fink.
“I do believe Covid really started to show that the world is less connected,” he added.
Companies struggling with major bottlenecks in the global supply chain fear further disruption from Russia’s war in Ukraine, with everything from energy supplies to wheat under threat.