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GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... MIR Investment Management, Integrity Investment Management and Wallara Asset Management have been terminated. Schroder and BGI continue to manage mandates for ipac, although their mandates would focus on the broad Australian equities market. Rogers said ...

Global funds lose $20trn to GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... leaders of the board have changed. Blackrock moved from 39 to being sixth, JP Morgan climbing to the 9th spot from 15 and BGI becoming the largest fund manager from fifth largest the previous year. The next few years will remain tough. "An additional ...

Britten to head BlackRock Global Investors in Aus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
Will Britten, the chief executive of BGI's local arm, will take over the reins at the soon-to-merge $44 billion-plus fund manager, BlackRock Global Investors in Australia, with BlackRock Australia chief executive, Maurice O'Shannassy, leaving the firm. ...

BGI iShares opens capital markets division

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Exchange traded fund (ETF) provider, iShares has developed a capital markets division in Asia Pacific to ensure the firm's ETFs remain liquid and priced competitively. The Hong Kong-based division will work with iShares dealers and market makers across ...

Industry awards top hedge funds in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Market Neutral Fund Winner - Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust Finalist - Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund Finalist - BGI Total Return - Australian Equity Market Neutral Fund Best Global Macro/ Futures Fund Winner - BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha ...

Barclays owns 5pc stake in Challenger

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... Services with a 5.01 per cent stake in the James Packer-backed firm. In an ASX announcement yesterday, Challenger confirmed that BGI became a holder of the firm on 26 August 2009. One analyst noted that the sale was conducted through BGI's fund management ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... managers enter a sweet spot in investments history with a three-year window to seriously make a mint for their investors, said BGI. The analysis paper, Why the financial crisis has made markets less efficient, by Andrew Jackson, director of research ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Fixed Interest assets totalling over $120 million from State Street Global Asset Management to Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Challenger's Australian equities mandate totaling over $50 million has been divided and given out to four existing managers ...

CitySuper appoints $60m to Wellington

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... CitySuper terminated a $10 million investment with State Street Global Advisors, and a further $20 million was dropped from BGI's absolute return fund. Rundle said the fund would undertake a yearly review of it investment strategy in August, when the ...

BGI and BlackRock mandates under review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... West Australian-based industry fund Westscheme has only two managers managing its $630 million Aussie equities portfolio - BGI and BlackRock. But last month's announcement prompted Westscheme to weigh the risk profiles of their existing mandates with ...