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BlackRock regional stewardship lead retires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
The head of Asia Pacific investment stewardship at BlackRock is retiring. Pru Bennett has served in the role since 2010, establishing comprehensive voting and engagement policies and strategies for numerous markets in the region. She has also been instrumental ...

BlackRock confirms iShares delisting timetable

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
BlackRock has laid out options for iShares ETF investors to liquidate their holdings, reconfirming it will suspend the trading of five products from the ASX in about a month. On May 3, BlackRock said it was pulling five iShares products from the Australian ...

BlackRock restructures iShares ETFs

KANIKA SOOD, KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
BlackRock will delist five of its 19 US-domiciled iShares exchange-traded funds from the ASX and convert the remainder as Australian-domiciled ETFs. The world's largest asset manager is moving towards a locally-domiciled product range and the 14 ETFs ...

Retail unit trusts leaking FUM

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
Retail unit trusts now hold only 47% of the managed funds segment in Australia, down from 75% at the time of GFC, according to new Rainmaker research. The $755 billion managed funds segment in Australia includes retail unit trusts, exchange traded funds ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Two global financial services heavyweights have collaborated to launch a suite of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices for institutional investors. J.P. Morgan and BlackRock have joined forces to create the J.P. Morgan ESG Index (JESG) ...

Praemium appoints managed accounts expert in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
Praemium has expanded its leadership team with a newly-created role, recruiting from a competitor. Praemium will welcome Steve Thomas in May, taking on the new position of manager of self-invested and international solutions. Thomas joins Praemium from ...

HUB24 expands distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
HUB24 has created two distribution roles, appointing two former Colonial First State executives. Joining HUB24's distribution team is Shane Muscat, formerly CFS head of institutional sales. Muscat takes on the newly-created role of HUB24's head of strategic ...

RARE wins mandate from $182bn US manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
RARE Infrastructure was awarded an infrastructure income mandate by a US-based global multi-manager which oversees more than $182 billion in funds. Principal Funds chose RARE's infrastructure income strategy for part of its $5 billion Diversified Real ...

WTW names APAC corporate risk leader

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
Willis Towers Watson has appointed a new leader of corporate risk and broking for Asia and Australasia. Simon Weaver was previously the chief executive of Willis Towers Watson's Singapore office. Prior to that, he was head of Asia operations at the ...

2018 FICAP 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar' raises over $300k

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
Research analyst by day, Rockstar by night. George Hadja from Montgomery Investment Management took home the coveted 2018 Rockstar of the Year Award at an industry fundraiser organised by the Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) in Sydney ...