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Rainmaker Marketing Awards celebrate best of the best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... marketing manager was awarded the Rainmaker Marketer of the Year in the superannuation category, while Jean Luc Ambrosi, BlackRock Investment Management head of marketing won Marketer of the Year - Investment Management. Meanwhile, the Rainmaker Marketer ...

Ben Davis bags CIMA scholarship

Zenith Investment Partners' Ben Davis is the latest recipient of the BlackRock-sponsored CIMA Scholarship for Retail Managed Funds and Master Trust Research Analysts. BlackRock said the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) Program addresses ...

Investment Trends names top SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
BlackRock, MLC and Tricom are among the top separately managed account (SMA) players according to a new Investment Trends report. BlackRock has surged ahead of the separately managed account (SMA) pack to be crowned the provider with best overall functionality ...

Back to school on finance

BlackRock's chief executive Laurence Fink and his wife Lori have donated US$10 million to UCLA to fund academic research that could help explain the changing world of finance post sub-prime. Fink is an alumnus of UCLA and is currently the chair of UCLA's ...

Managed accounts hold trumpcard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... say. Arthur Naoumidis, managing director at SMA technology provider Praemium, has said the firm has seen a lot of new BlackRock SMA accounts set up in the past few months as a result of the current market rout. "Psychologically, in this period, having ...

RaboPlus adds BlackRock Global to platform menu

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
RaboPlus has added BlackRock Global Allocation Fund (Australia) to its wholesale managed funds platform menu. The RaboPlus online wholesale managed funds platform now includes 58 funds. The BlackRock Global Allocation Fund (Australia) invests in global ...

MTAA awards $450m quant mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
MTAA Super has awarded a $450 million mandate to BlackRock Investment Management to run a quantitative, tax-aware Australian equities portfolio. Maurice O'Shannassy, BlackRock managing director, said a tax-conscious portfolio could make a substantial ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
Global investment manager BlackRock adjusts the nuts and bolts of its asset allocation alpha fund so that the fund can comfortably ride out the volatile markets. Speaking at a BlackRock conference in Sydney yesterday, BlackRock head of asset allocation ...

Toolsets by managers, for managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... BT, QIC, Challenger, Integrity and AMP but also global players that now include Schroders, Fidelity, Prudential and BlackRock. "What makes the dashboard so effective is that its designers are quantitative investment managers, not just computing people ...

BT Wrap Advantage to rebate $400k

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... administration, use the Wrap platform. Participating fund managers on the Advantage platform include APN, Australian Unity, BlackRock, Colonial First State, Zurich, Lazard, Legg Mason and Deutsche.