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Macquarie top mandate catchers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... report. Schroders won 14 mandates, beating Wellington which came equal third alongside State Street Global Advisers and BlackRock with 10 new mandates each for the year to December, the study said. Macquarie Group won three mandates in Australian equities ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... assets under management to US$1.4 trillion as of the first quarter of this year, according to an industry report by BlackRock, owners of iShares. There were 2605 products from 142 providers listed on 48 exchanges around the world, it said.

Indexing warning as ETFs surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... traded funds/exchange traded products (ETFs/ETPs) soared to US$41.4 billion in the first quarter of 2011. According to BlackRock, Q1 inflows were more than double that seen in the equivalent period in 2010. Global ETF assets have increased 6.7 per cent ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
BlackRock Investment Management targets retail superannuation clients with a separately managed account (SMA) product that offers SMSF like features to investors. The investment manager is anticipating flows of around $100 million into the super SMA ...

iShares appoints vice presidents to new roles

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
iShares, the ETF business of BlackRock Investment Management has made senior appointments to its institutional distribution and capital markets teams. Campbell MacPherson joins as vice president and business development manager, while Gonzalo Biassini ...

FirstChoice launches nine new options

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Global, Realindex Emerging Markets, Colonial First State Global Soft Commodity, Zurich Investment Global Thematic Share, Blackrock Asset Allocation Alpha, AMP Capital Global Property Securities, Ironbark Karara Australian Share, Solaris Core Australian ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Sovereign wealth funds, worth a collective US$4 trillion, commonly give large mandates to external investment houses such as BlackRock, Aberdeen, Schroder, PIMCO and Goldman Sachs for management. "When you take sovereign wealth funds as clients, there ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... now, which is probably a healthy thing. I think it's too early to wade back in aggressively into the market," he added. BlackRock Multi-Asset Client Solutions Group agrees that the effect on the global economic recovery should not be too strong. "We ...

Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... and prolonged investor turmoil, is expected to be further negatively affected by the additional volatility. However, BlackRock Investments said that while short term investor confidence and markets will be negatively impacted, it does not foresee big ...

PAS mandate review completed

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... over 20 fund managers to manage its investment portfolio including Vanguard Investment Australia for Australian shares, BlackRock Investment Management for its liquid alternatives and Schroder Investment Management for bonds. The fund has also invested ...