New York — BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday. That was helped by strong flows into its exchange-traded fund (ETF) business that boosted overall assets under management to a record $7.43-trillion.

A rally in global equity markets and strong inflows across business segments helped the company lure $128.84bn in new money during the fourth quarter to the end of December...

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