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BlackRock appoints head of iShares Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
BlackRock has promoted Mark Oliver to head of its iShares exchange traded fund (ETF) business in Australia. Oliver has been with BlackRock since 2008 and was most recently head of strategic partnerships. Prior to this, he led BlackRock's distribution ...

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
BlackRock plans to add to staff numbers while expanding its separately managed account (SMA) business next year, said Scott Phillips, BlackRock's head of retail. In response to the recent departures of two members of the research team, Phillips said ...

iShares unveils four Aussie ETFs

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
iShares will launch four new Australian ETFs as the firm hopes to cash in on increasing investor demand for exchange traded funds. These ETFs include the iShares MSCI Australia 200, which will aim to track the performance of the MSCI Australia 200 Index ...

More departures at BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Matt Aspinall, research account manager at BlackRock is understood to have left the firm last month, just weeks after another departure within the group's Australian research team. Aspinall joined BlackRock in November 2006 as part of the group's merger ...

Ipac awards $1bn in fixed interest mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
AXA-owned ipac has awarded a combined $1 billion-plus in fixed interest mandates to Morgan Stanley, Old Mutual Asset Management and Kapstream Capital. Jeff Rogers, chief investment officer of ipac, said the firm handed out around $800 million to Morgan ...

UniSuper owns 5pc of Gunns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
The $25.4 billion UniSuper has become a 5 per cent shareholder of Gunns, after its fund managers increased their stakes in the controversial Tasmanian timber company last week. Simon Hudson, head of equities at UniSuper, said the 5 per cent stake is ...

Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Nine chief executives from some of Australia's biggest super funds and investment managers have formed a panel to ramp up talks on climate change policy, including the design of a carbon price in Australia. The panel includes Ian Silk, of AustralianSuper ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
Despite strong results on face value, US investors were largely unimpressed with the third quarter earnings reported by some of the industry's leading lights overnight. BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, reported higher than expected profits ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Despite having the world's fourth largest investment market to source funding from, Australian fund managers have once again failed to crack the world's top 100, new figures show. According to a study conducted by Towers Watson and Pension & Investments ...