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Prime Super restructures equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW | THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010

... billion-plus Prime Super has overhauled its $570 million equities portfolio and withdrew mandates with State Street, BlackRock and BGI, while the fund looks for alternative assets to add to its investments. Lachlan Baird, chief executive of Prime Super ...

More departures at BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS | FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010

... February when Morry Waked left and set up his own quant-orientated boutique business with a team of ex-Barclays Global Investors (BGI) executives including former head of distribution Katherine Allchin. BlackRock declined to comment on the departure ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING | THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

... investors were spooked by over US$34 billion in unexpected outflows relating to funds acquired in its merger last year with BGI. Despite the merger related outflows, the company's AUM rose by more than US$260 billion to finish the quarter just below ...

Pengana launches Australian Market Neutral fund

JOHN MCDULING | TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010

Dimensional Aus hires two

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT | WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010

... Stephen Palmer and internationally to the global head of compliance, Christopher Crossan. Mair spent the last 10 years at BGI/Blackrock, where he held the position of regional head of risk and compliance. Prior to that, Mair held positions with Perpetual ...

Westscheme drops GMO and BlackRock

MICHAEL HOBBS | FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010

... at Westscheme, said he was intensely scrutinising the fund's Australian equities portfolio mandates in July last year with BGI and BlackRock after the two firms merged.

Britten exits BlackRock

COMPANY RELEASE | THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010

... effective immediately. Frawley has spent more than a decade working at BlackRock and, before0 that, more than a decade at BGI. He also will continue to serve as head of the global client group in Australia. He will work closely with both the global leadership ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010

... a number of key senior roles across the Australian and broader global business. He was the chief executive and CIO of the BGI Australia before becoming global CIO of SAE since late 2008. In Australia, Andrew Jackson, currently the head of research will ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

... contributions. The key to Thrift's rock bottom fees is that the six investment choices are ETFs or based on ETFs managed by BGI (now BlackRock): a government securities fund, a bond market ETF, a US equities ETF, a US small cap ETF, an international ...

BlackRock BGI merger completed

COMPANY RELEASE | WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009

... including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. A combined BlackRock and BGI changes the course of Australia's investment history, creating the tenth largest fund manager in the country with more ...

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Funds SA appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN

Funds SA has appointed a new chief investment officer, who will join from Hostplus, to commence in February 2025.

Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025.

UniSuper has 'some work to get on with' on cyber front: Chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

UniSuper's leadership team has touched on how the fund is strengthening its operations following the extensive system outage in May this year.

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA

Lax superannuation laws make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found.

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