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Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. She also worked as a director of fixed income research at Barclays Capital, where she developed the firm's US inflation-linked securities strategy. The global wealth management firm has about ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... said he was leaving in order to rebalance his work and home commitments, having joined BlackRock when the firm acquired Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in 2009. He was chief executive officer of BGI for Australia and New Zealand, before taking over at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... worst hit after the S&P move, losing more than 3.0 per cent. Banks were badly hit as the economic outlook dimmed, with Barclays in London down 1.96 per cent and emerging markets specialist lender Standard Chartered off 2.22 per cent. Airlines suffered ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... - European equities mainly rose ahead of a US interest rate call, as investors digested results from energy giant BP, Barclays bank and telecom equipment giant Ericsson. The capital's benchmark FTSE 100 index bucked the trend, marginally, ending the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... as Portugal negotiated what is expected to be very tough bailout package with the EU and IMF. Among the British banks, Barclays lost 3.63 per cent and Lloyds Banking Group 2.13 per cent and European lenders were also in the firing line. In Paris, Guillaume ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... but stopped short of more radical proposals that some had feared would cost the banks huge amounts of fresh capital. Barclays gained 2.76 per cent while bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland put on 2.30 per cent. In Paris, Aurelien Hotton at Swiss Life Gestion ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... 0.80 per cent at 6,085.27 points. Banks were among the main gainers, following encouraging results posted on Tuesday by Barclays, taken as a sign that the sector is beginning to emerge from the bloodletting of the financial crash. Good results announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... a rate of 3.7 per cent in December. Europe's main corporate news on Tuesday was full-year results from British lender Barclays, which were more encouraging. Barclays jumped 3.0 per cent to 320.15 pence after the bank said its 2010 net profit rose a third ...

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 ...

More departures at BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... departure was in February when Morry Waked left and set up his own quant-orientated boutique business with a team of ex-Barclays Global Investors (BGI) executives including former head of distribution Katherine Allchin. BlackRock declined to comment ...