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Treasury Group names distribution execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... and Centaurus Capital. She also held a number of roles in client management, marketing and sales at Barclays Global Investors in Switzerland. Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury Group, highlighted the importance of these appointment earlier in ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... AXA Australia has added 20 funds to its approved product list (APL), including those from Aberdeen, Barclays Global Investors and Magellan, to provide a wider choice of index and income funds to financial planners. The AXA APL includes 51 fund managers ...

BlackRock BGI merger completed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
BlackRock has completed its merger with Barclays Global Investors, including Barclay's iShares exchange traded funds business. The combined firm will operate under the BlackRock name and the iShares brand will be retained. "Beginning today, we move ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... Rogers, chief investment officer of ipac. The firm's Aussie equities book is now divided between Lazard, Barclays Global Investors, GMO and Schroder. Mandates with Maple-Brown Abbott, MIR Investment Management, Integrity Investment Management and Wallara ...

Britten to head BlackRock Global Investors in Aus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... awaiting final regulatory approvals by year-end. Ratings firm S&P said its ratings on all BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors (BGI) funds are unaffected by the management changes. The restructure at the top comes just three months after BlackRock ...

Barclays owns 5pc stake in Challenger

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Barclays Global Investors has become a substantial shareholder of Challenger Financial 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 ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... crisis has made markets less efficient, by Andrew Jackson, director of research in Australian equities at Barclays Global Investors, found active managers will have some of the best opportunities to add alpha in the next one to three years than in recent ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Australian 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 ...

CitySuper appoints $60m to Wellington

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... Wellington Special Strategies Equity Fund. The $60 million came from an axed global equities mandate with Barclays Global Investors. According to Guy Rundle, investment relationship manager at CitySuper, Wellington has been the only new manager appointed ...

BGI and BlackRock mandates under review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... of the mandates within its $630 million Aussie equities portfolio, which is currently divided between Barclays Global Investors ($380 million) and BlackRock ($250 million), after the two firms announced their merger last month. The $2.4 billion West ...