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Following a difficult 12 months Raquel Pichardo-Allison looks at the differing strategies corporate and public funds in the US have developed to survive the credit crunch

BlackRock has won its first full fiduciary mandate in the UK, having been appointed to run the £410m PA Consulting Group Pension Scheme.

GLOBAL - Expansion will become the dominant driving force of mergers and acquisitions in the global asset management sector, according to Jefferies Putnam Lovell.

Trustees considering implementing fiduciary management must be on their guard to ensure they get the best deal for their scheme needs, AllenbridgeEPIC warns.

Raquel Pichardo-Allison compares the approach of the Netherlands and the UK to fiduciary management

NETHERLANDS - The €545m (US$769m) Stichting Pensioenfonds Siemens has raised the prospect of joining the €18.7bn industry-wide pension fund PME, but deliberations stalled when the fund's coverage ratio fell to 90%, MandateWire reported. In the meantime,...

US - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has terminated the combined US$2.5bn mandates awarded to BlackRock, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and JPMorgan, but denies the move is a result of controversy surrounding the appointments.

Raquel Pichardo-Allison canvasses industry opinion on BlackRock's acquisition of Barclays Global Investors

Giovanni Legorano examines the implication of the acquisition of BGI for default DC funds

Raquel Pichardo-Allison canvasses industry opinion on BlackRock's acquisition of Barclays Global Investors