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BlackRock reorganises management team

Professional Pensions | 16 Jul 2010 | 15:04

BlackRock has restructured its management team creating a new head of portfolio management role, three new regional organisations and an alternatives investment group.

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BlackRock's O'Brien steps down

BlackRock head of European Middle East and Africa institutional business Mike O'Brien has stepped down to pursue interests outside of the fund management industry.

Professional Pensions | 25 Jun 2010 | 17:01

Global equities offer enhanced returns

Global equities offer schemes increased potential for enhanced returns over domestic or regional equities, BlackRock says.

Professional Pensions | 17 Jun 2010 | 09:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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IMA adds three board members

The Investment Management Association has confirmed Douglas Ferrans' position as chairman for the next two years.

Professional Pensions | 09 Jun 2010 | 10:42 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Investors considering climate change investment policies double

The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change reveals.

Professional Pensions | 07 Jun 2010 | 12:50 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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J.P. Morgan loses transition management head

J.P. Morgan global head of transition management (TM) John Minderides has left the firm. Meanwhile, BlackRock has lost one senior TM member, and the European co-head has gone on sabbatical.

Professional Pensions | 04 Jun 2010 | 15:43 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Forging strong bonds - overview of the credit market

Charlotte Moore surveys the impact of the financial crisis on the corporate bond market

Professional Pensions | 20 May 2010 | 09:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Defaults and diversification

Sebastian Cheek reports on how investment strategy design is changing to react to the rapid expansion of the DC asset pool

Professional Pensions | 29 Apr 2010 | 09:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Riding the equity surge

With equities rebounding from their post credit crunch lows, Alison Swersky examines how managers have responded and what they believe the future holds

Professional Pensions | 29 Mar 2010 | 12:56 To read this article you must be a subsriber

MN Services hires Limond as account manager

Fiduciary manager MN Services has appointed Stephanie Limond as account manager in its UK team.

Professional Pensions | 22 Mar 2010 | 12:25 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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A short introduction to fiduciary management

Generally speaking fiduciary management involves outsourcing of the day-to-day management of a pension scheme to a lead manager with a high degree of transparency so that the manager’s decisions can be easily scrutinised and overall control is retained by the trustee board.

Professional Pensions | 26 Feb 2010 | 17:32

Comment: Spring is coming... for investors

The spring thaw is imminent, and after the freezing winter shocks of debt, debt and a little more debt, there are signs that investor risk appetite is warming up again. A frequently heard phrase is “You can’t sit in cash forever, you have to do something.” But there remains a decidedly cool appraisal of where opportunities lie.

Professional Pensions | 25 Feb 2010 | 12:38 To read this article you must be a subsriber

A growing liability

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the causes of the current rise in inflation and asks how long it might be expected to continue and what trustees can do to protect their funds from the extra liability.

Professional Pensions | 15 Feb 2010 | 12:09 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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