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Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... the economic dilemma." Building the right product iShares director Jonathan Howie said that over the last few months BlackRock has experienced an increase of advisers demanding exposure to India through an exchange traded fund (ETF). While BlackRock ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... outlook for capital expenditure adding to Australia's GDP from anywhere outside of mining is "abysmal" according to BlackRock investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller. At a recent media briefing detailing BlackRock's global investment ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Northern Trust appoints former BlackRock vice president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... business development for asset management in Australia and New Zealand, Bert Rebelo. Among the appointments is former BlackRock vice president Shane Teunissen who will be senior institutional sales manager. Appointed as sales associate is Ann-Marie Garry ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... ever-expanding bubble in yield-paying assets, inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive monetary policy was the biggest driver of asset-price bubbles forcing yield-starved ...

Perpetual boosts multi-asset team

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Hudson has been appointed to the role of head of asset allocation in the diversified strategies team. He joins from BlackRock where he was managing director, head of asset allocation and lead portfolio manager. He has also worked at BT, in the Commonwealth ...

Rebalancing almost leads to accidental takeover bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
A quarterly rebalancing of indices was blamed for BlackRock accidentally purchasing more than 20% of Monadelphous Group recently. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on March 25, BlackRock said a change in interests held by the company ...

FICAP Rockstar winners announced

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) Who Wants to be a Rockstar competition were crowned last night, with BlackRock's Adam Hess given the highest honour for his fiery performance of The Killers' Mr Brightside. Hess was also given the Challenger ...

Low rates set to push fixed income ETF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... increase on a low rate environment, iShares director Jonathan Howie said. Howie told Financial Standard that demand for BlackRock's three fixed income ETFs has increased since mid-2014. "When we launched the three Australian fixed income products at ...