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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 ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

FPA endorses iShares CPD program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... by 2011. In fact, ETFs received over $300 billion in net flows during 2008. This development follows Barclays Global Investors introducing three new ETFs covering telecommunications, health and consumer brands in March. The firm has launched 19 ETFS ...

Barclays sells iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... after CVC Capital Parnters achieves a certain minimum return from the iShares business. The sale means Barclays Global Investors will remain one of the world's largest asset managers. "This transaction realises significant value for Barclays. IShares ...