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CIOs see no let up in European debt crisis

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... survey of chief investment officers represented by the Financial Services Council (FSC), including ANZ Wealth, Perpetual, BlackRock, UBS, BT, Schroders, Alliance Bernstein and Colonial First State, found sentiment fell in the last quarter despite an ...

Record month for ETPs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... products (ETP) and fixed income exchange traded funds (ETF) hit record highs last month, according to latest research. The BlackRock ETP Landscape report from revealed the ETP sector had its strongest ever January, with $34.1 billion of net inflows ...

BlackRock chief named QIC's new boss

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Wholesale funds manager QIC has appointed BlackRock head and managing director Damien Frawley as chief executive. Frawley takes over from Doug McTaggart who announced last year he would be stepping down in mid-2012. At BlackRock, Frawley was responsible ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... (GEM3) includes frontier markets as a result of client demand, according to Nielsen, which includes institutions such as BlackRock. "Clients told us they were investing in frontier markets and they needed to be able to assess the risk of these markets ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... with other gold sponsors already on board including Aberdeen Asset Management, AMP Capital, Bennelong Funds Management, BlackRock, BT Investment Management, Challenger, Count, Genesys, IOOF, Ironbark, Macquarie, MLC, Morningstar, Pinnacle Investment ...

ETF services expanded with cloud

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... The global exchange traded product industry is meanwhile valued at $1.5 trillion as at December 2011, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute.

Global ETP markets earn $151bn in 2011

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... year end, up 2.9%, with net inflows of $151.9 billion in 2011, according to the latest ETP Landscape report from the BlackRock Investment Institute. The exchange-traded product (ETP) market was still lead by the US which had 5% growth in 2011 to $1 trillion ...

Investors looking backwards: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... decline but that the difference between an upper and lower quartile manager was the smallest since the 2004 calendar year. BlackRock L/S Equitised fund took top position for the best performing Australian shares manager for 2011, returning 6.5%, in a ...

BlackRock launches sovereign risk management fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
BlackRock Investment Management has launched a new sovereign risk management fund for Australian institutions. BlackRock said its Global Screened Government Bond is supported by the firm's Sovereign Risk Index, and is a proprietary index ranking the ...

BlackRock wins $3.8 billion VicSuper mandates

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
BlackRock Investment Management Australia has been appointed to manage almost $4 billion of assets for VicSuper Fund, one of Australia's fastest growing public offer superannuation funds. BlackRock will manage the index mandates across Australian equity ...