Markets Media Group’s second-annual Global Markets Choice Awards will be held Thursday, June 4, 2026 at the Central Park Boathouse in New York.
The Markets Choice Awards launched in 2013 as an event to recognize and celebrate the best of the best in capital markets trading and technology. The Markets Choice Awards was rebranded to the Global Markets Choice Awards in 2025 to more closely align with the globalization of markets.
Ahead of this year’s GMCAs, we are featuring retrospectives of select past award winners.
Barbara Novick was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Markets Choice Awards in 2016.
A co-founder of BlackRock, Barbara was one of the firm’s original eight members when it launched in 1988, helping build what would become the world’s largest asset manager. Over the course of her career, she held senior leadership roles across the business, including serving on the firm’s Global Executive Committee. She later founded BlackRock’s Global Public Policy Group, reflecting her role at the intersection of markets, regulation, and industry development.
In a Markets Media interview following her award, Barbara reflected on the evolution of both her career and the broader asset management industry, from its early focus on fixed income to a more global, multi-asset and technology-driven model.
“It has been very exciting and very rewarding to create a company — we were a start-up, we were truly entrepreneurs — and to do it with a group of people who I knew, liked and respected,” Novick said in 2016. “I’m happy to say quite a few of them are still here and very actively engaged in the business. For a financial services company to have partners like that, and have them stay together, is an unusual story and a very positive story.”
“We talk a lot about ‘One BlackRock’,which I architected. It’s all about putting the client front center, and trying to bring the full resources of the company to solve problems on behalf of clients,” Novick added.
Her recognition in 2016 reflected a career spent building and shaping one of the most influential firms in global finance.
Barbara Novick accepting the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2016 Markets Choice Awards in New York.
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