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Continuum sees value as active managers scrape past benchmark

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... by a return of -4.3% in Q4. Continuum's two-year-old aggressive strategy returned 25.7% for the year, beaten only by BlackRock's long/short fund, which returned 29.4%. Mercer's survey highlighted a disappointing year for Australian share funds, with ...

BlackRock creates new invest comms role

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
BlackRock Australia has created a new senior investment communications role to close the gap and build relationships between the firm's clients and its investment insights. Albert Daniels, believed to have started in the newly created role already ...

Women in Super scholarship winners announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Lawler, client relationship manager at HESTA Super; Katharine Seymour, head of institutional client relationships at BlackRock; and Sandi Orleow, principal at Orleow Consulting. When the scholarship was originally announced, there were only meant to ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
BlackRock has launched a new index to help fund managers assess credit risk for governments that issue sovereign debt. Steve Miller, head of Australian fixed income at BlackRock, said the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index would help portfolios to better ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
Will Britten, the former managing director of BlackRock Australia, joined Credit Suisse yesterday, as its new managing director and head of asset management in Australia. The appointment signals Credit Suisse's intention to become a more influential ...

AMP wins $113m new mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... managers. Rainmaker research says the $3.2 billion superannuation fund's largest international equity portfolio managers are Blackrock and LSV Asset Management. It is welcome news for AMP Capital Investors after April's Morningstar downgrade of the wealth ...

Alpha adds BlackRock and QIC strategies

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
Alpha Fund Managers has invested in BlackRock's Australian equitised long short strategy, adding the manager to its Australian blue chip fund. Boutique multi-manager Alpha has bought into the long short strategy, which outperformed the S&P/ASX200 index ...

New senior port mnger for BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
BlackRock Investment Management has appointed a second senior portfolio manager to its Asset Allocation Alpha Fund while 'cooling its heels' as the global economy remains unclear. Evan Jones has joined BlackRock in the newly created Sydney-based role ...

SSGA says ETF growth means plenty for all providers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... enjoyed 100 per cent market share. It's seven ETF products now account for 62 per cent of market share after Vanguard and Blackrock iShares jumped into the market, now estimated to be worth $5 billion. But Frank Henze, head of SPDR ETFs in Asia Pacific ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... assigning one new rating to the Russell Australian Bond Income A fund, which received three stars. Aside from index managers BlackRock and Vanguard and the benchmark agnostic Vianova, S&P said that all managers provided returns above the UBS Composite ...