Hoctor-Duncan a ‘great hire’ for ASI
Global sales veteran joins ASI after 20 years at Blackrock
BlackRock
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Goldman Sachs shunned for £109bn Lloyds contract
Goldman Sachs now a rival to Lloyds due to its UK retail bank
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Baillie Gifford and Blackrock clash over Tesla
Regulatory filing reveals which asset managers rejected bid to oust Elon Musk as chairman
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Blackrock expands global bonds range
Duration on the ‘go-anywhere’ fund will initially be around 2 years
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Blackrock touts mismatched alternative to shuttered trust
Emerging Europe shareholders offered switch into trust with a different investment universe
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Dollar strength hits Blackrock AUM
Blackrock saw total assets drop to $6.3trn in Q2 from $6.32trn in the previous quarter with FX movements having a deleterious effect on international sales due to the strong dollar.
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Blackrock and Schroders frontrunners for Lloyds mandate
Asset managers Blackrock and Schroders are the rumoured frontrunners to oversee £109bn for Lloyd’s Banking Group (LBG), after the contract with Standard Life Aberdeen was terminated earlier this year.
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Best in show: the top-performing funds of Q2
Portfolio Adviser looks at three-month data from FE Analytics to determine which five funds beat the odds and performed the best in Q2. Click through the slides below to find out.
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Blackrock manager faces further blow on fund downgrade
Blackrock manager Sam Vecht has suffered a further blow as the frontier markets fund he manages with Emily Fletcher is downgraded, less than two weeks after an investment trust he co-manages revealed it is winding up.
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Blackrock amends derivatives policy on retail funds
Blackrock has written to investors to announce it is expanding the use of derivatives on its Luxembourg and UK domiciled retail fund ranges.
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Russia-heavy Blackrock trust to wind up
Large Russia exposure is being blamed for unexpectedly high shareholder interest in a tender offer in Blackrock Emerging Europe, which is now set to shut up shop.
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Machines to help run Blackrock equity range
Blackrock has launched six active equity funds in Europe that will combine “human and machine” management.
