Ex-Treasury Official Joins BlackRock

Peter R. Fisher, a former undersecretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Treasury, has joined investment management firm BlackRock Inc. as a managing director.Mr. Fisher was previously active in mortgage and government-sponsored enterprise issues while working for the Treasury Department. He left that post in early October. Before joining the Treasury, he was an official with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. BlackRock, which manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide, is majority-owned by The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and by BlackRock employees. It can be found online at http://www.blackrock.com.