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Fund managers eye 'cheap' Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... returned 15.12 per cent for the last three months of 2010, 5.01 per cent over three years and -2.29 over five years. BlackRock's $242 million Indexed Japan Equity Fund returned 1.23 per cent, -6.48 per cent and -8.48 per cent over one, three and five ...

BlackRock iShares breaks $1bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
BlackRock has announced that its exchange traded fund business, iShares, has reached $1 billion assets under management. IShares claims to be the world's leading provider of ETFs after launching its first suite of international ETFs in Australia in ...

iShares increases ETF range

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... to gain diversified exposure to the Australian sharemarket through a single trade on the ASX. The latest offerings in BlackRock's iShares ETF range are MSCI Australia 200, S&P/ASX 20, S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries and S&P/ASX High Dividend. One trade on the ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... geopolitics, making more volatility the only certainty. First the background. According to a briefing note put out yesterday by BlackRock, street protests in Egypt which have gone on for a week now against president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo were inspired ...

Investors direct $42bn to iShares

RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
A year on since the merger of Blackrock and Barclays Global Investors, the US-based company reported strong growth in its exchange traded funds business, with iShares enjoying more than $42 billion of net inflows for the year. According to BlackRock's ...

MLC cuts two mandates in new strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... months ago, MLC changed its Horizon portfolios and its Diversified Debt fund by dropping mandates with Bridgewater and BlackRock. Standard & Poor's Fund Services has said that its ratings on Horizon series of funds and the Australian Share Fund remain ...

Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
Macquarie, Schroders and BlackRock were the top three top fund managers to win the most investment mandates last year, as Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation industry gears up for more mandate deals this year, new research shows. The latest Rainmaker ...

UBS strengthens fixed income team

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... business. Blair returns to UBS after senior roles in a number of prominent fixed income fund managers, most recently with BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors in Singapore. Grow joins the Australian Fixed Income portfolio management team after serving ...

Deutsche hires investment specialist

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
Deutsche Asset Management has appointed BlackRock executive Simon Brinsmead to the role of investment specialist. He has ten years of experience in the asset management industry with six years as an investment research analyst. Most recently, Brinsmead ...

Prime Super restructures equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... billion-plus Prime Super has overhauled its $570 million equities portfolio and withdrew mandates with State Street, BlackRock and BGI, while the fund looks for alternative assets to add to its investments. Lachlan Baird, chief executive of Prime Super ...