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Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... benefitting our clients and beneficiaries, and society as a whole," Signatories included the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper. Commonwealth ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... institutional investors such as AMP Capital, AustralianSuper, Colonial First State, BT Group, UniSuper, HESTA, Cbus and BlackRock. The letter, which appeared as a full-page advertisement in the Australian Financial Review this morning, read: "The savings ...

BlackRock opens global fixed income fund to local investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
BlackRock has opened its Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund (FIGO) to Australian investors. FIGO is a flexible global multi-sector fixed income strategy that seeks to achieve a positive total return. While the fund is not tied to a benchmark, it ...

Implemented Portfolios appoints former BlackRock MD

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Former BlackRock Australia managing director Adam Seccombe has joined Implemented Portfolios in a full-time role to assist the business with the next stage of its growth. Seccombe was responsible for launching BlackRock's ETF business, iShares, in Australia ...

Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... them. A group of 348 institutional investors worth more than US$24 trillion - including the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper - have signed ...

Regal named Australian hedge fund of the year

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Correlation Fund for the best global macro/futures fund, JANA/MLC Low Correlation Strategy for the best multi strategy fund, BlackRock for the best offshore manager operating in Australia and Monash Absolute Investment Fund for best emerging fund Cure ...

360 Capital hires BDM from Zurich

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... experience, Matt Aspinall was most recently part of business development and research with Zurich and previously at Blackrock, NAB/ MLC and Perpetual. 360 Capital Group managing director Tony Pitt said: "Matt will play a vital role in developing and ...

Australian Hedge Fund Awards finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Opportunities or Laminar Credit Opportunities. Fighting it out for Best Offshore Manager Operating in Australia are: BlackRock, Man Investments and Permal.

ASX200 companies 'poor' on gender diversity disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
Most ASX200 companies do not meet gender diversity reporting recommendations, a BlackRock review has found. BlackRock looked at the 2013 annual reports of companies included in the ASX200 stockmarket index and found that gender diversity reporting is ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Blackstone is the largest FoHF manager with $54bn, while Bridgewater Associates is the largest hedge fund manager with $87bn. BlackRock is the largest commodities manager with $53bn, M&G Investments is the largest illiquid credit manager with $31bn and ...