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ESG RA to award best stockbroking research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors; Pru Bennett, head of corporate governance at BlackRock Investment Management; and Simon O'Connor, chief executive of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Don Hamson, deputy ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... heightened global sovereign risk. Working with investment adviser Towers Watson, fund manager BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital, VicSuper has customised a new benchmark index by combining a tightly constrained sovereign ...

Praemium voted responsible entity for BlackRock SMA

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
BlackRock Investment Management has confirmed that Praemium Australia will become the responsible entity for its separately managed accounts (SMA) scheme. The SMA scheme, known as the BlackRock Customised Portfolio Service (CPS) has more than $660 million ...

BNP Paribas appoints relationship management head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... superannuation industries. Most recently she ran the institutional relationship management team for BlackRock Investment Management, prior to which she held senior client relationship positions with Schroder Investment Management in both Sydney and London. ...

Praemium captures BlackRock's SMA business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
Praemium Australia is poised to take over BlackRock Investment Management's Separately Managed Accounts business after it yesterday entered into an agreement with the fund manager. The completion of the transaction, however, is subject to a number of ...

IMCA names CIMA scholarship winners

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... Financial Group and Matthew Zschech, portfolio manager at Alpha Fund Managers who received the BlackRock Investment Management / Portfolio Construction Forum Scholarship. The FEAL CIMA Scholarship was awarded to Jo Townsend, investment manager at REST ...

IMCA Australia launches CIMA Scholarship Program

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Scholarships on offer for Retail researchers, investment consultants and portfolio managers Scholarship. Blackrock Investment Management and Portfolio Construction Forum will be providing two scholarships specifically for analysts within retail fund ...

BlackRock launches sovereign risk management fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
BlackRock Investment Management has launched a new sovereign risk management fund for Australian institutions. BlackRock said its Global Screened Government Bond is supported by the firm's Sovereign Risk Index, and is a proprietary index ranking the ...

BlackRock wins $3.8 billion VicSuper mandates

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
BlackRock Investment Management Australia has been appointed to manage almost $4 billion of assets for VicSuper Fund, one of Australia's fastest growing public offer superannuation funds. BlackRock will manage the index mandates across Australian equity ...

iShares appoints new director

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... absolutely committed to building investor awareness and confidence in trading ETFs," he said. BlackRock Investment Management, is a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock Inc.