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BlackRock appoints Asia Pacific ETF head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
BlackRock has hired from Citi to appoint a new head of iShares for Asia Pacific. Rimmo Jolly is currently Citi's regional head of ETF and index sales and business development for Asia Pacific and Japan. In his new role, Jolly will be tasked with growing ...

UBS says goodbye to ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... million in assets at February end. ETFs that don't attract enough investors are a problem for issuers. In January, BlackRock shut a Taiwan stocks ETF which had only $5.65 million in assets. A 2019 report from Rainmaker titled 'Zombie ETFs' ...

Major firms criticised for substandard RI approach

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... investment. The list of asset managers with "particularly poor ESG performance" include the world's six largest managers, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street Global Advisors, Fidelity Investments, Capital Group, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Just one ...

FICAP 2020 weeks away

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Foundation IOOF Ironbark Janus Henderson MLC Asset Management Aberdeen Standard Investments AMP Capital Ausbil Bennelong BlackRock BT Capital Group Fidelity First Sentier Investors Franklin Templeton Investments GQG Partners GSFM HUB24 KPMG Lazard Legg ...

Investment firm nabs former BlackRock fundie

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
A specialist real estate investment manager has appointed a former BlackRock fund manager to its board, in what comes as her directorial debut. Danielle Carter will serve as an independent non-executive director on the boards of both APN Property Group ...

Three ETFs axed by Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
Dwindling client demand will see Morningstar analysts cease coverage on two BlackRock ETFs and a BetaShares product next month. From March 20, it will no longer publish qualitative research on iShares MSCI Japan (IJP), iShares China Large-Cap (IZZ) ...

Factor investing, sustainability a perfect match

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... of the market actually underperforms in the long term as opposed to outperforming the market," he said. According to BlackRock, the factor-investing industry is set to reach US$3.4 trillion by 2022. Fees in this sector are typically lower than their ...

Investment Manager of the Year named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... perspective of the investors." In total, a further four managers took home more than one award; Australian Ethical, BlackRock, Magellan and Pendal. Australian Ethical's Australian Shares Fund was named top High Performance fund and top ESG Australian ...

Australian ETF industry competition heats up

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... 'highly concentrated' to being "unconcentrated" "Revenue for the period ending 2013 was dominated by two managers, BlackRock and State Street, with 70% of total revenue," Dyall said. "By the end of 2019, these two managers controlled only 30% ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... pricing." In addition to the findings, Morningstar downgraded AMP Capital Multi-Asset A fund from bronze to neutral and Blackrock's Global Allocation Aus D fund from silver to bronze. Morningstar said AMP's fund demonstrated little discernable competitive ...