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Pension funds miss out on ETF lending – Updated
Global Pensions |
19 Mar 2010 | 
GLOBAL – Pension funds are missing out on the benefits of using exchange traded funds within their securities lending programmes, industry experts said.
BlackRock US DC head resigns
US – BlackRock’s head of US defined contribution business Kristi Mitchem will leave the firm to pursue other opportunities.
BlackRock’s planned transition
Raquel Pichardo-Allison looks at how the integration of BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors’ international transition management teams is proceeding
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No slowdown for commodities
Institutional investors flooded into commodities last year as prices soared. Industry experts say the asset class’ popularity isn’t likely to wane in 2010, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
Institutional investors fuel BlackRock growth
GLOBAL – BlackRock’s net new business totalled US$82bn in the fourth quarter of 2009, with pension funds and other institutional investors accounting for 60% of it.
Independent firms to drive 2010 M&A
GLOBAL – TCW’s purchase of Metropolitan West Asset Management may be a predictor of things to come as independent firms will drive merger and acquisition activity in 2010, investment bank Jefferies said.
GP’s top 10 news stories of 2009
As the year winds to a close, Global Pensions takes a look back at the top 10 most read news stories of the year.
BlackRock lays off 89 in San Francisco, completes BGI merger - UPDATED
US – BlackRock has laid off 89 employees in San Francisco as a result of its merger with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which the firm completed yesterday.
Institutional investors pour into ETFs - UPDATED
GLOBAL – The number of institutional investors using exchange traded funds increased 12% in 2008 with nearly 3,000 investors worldwide holding ETFs, a new report from Barclays Global Investors (BGI) showed.
FRR doles €4bn to inflation-linked bond managers
FRANCE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has hired six firms to run a combined €4bn (US$5.9bn) in inflation-linked bond mandates.
Mizuho bumps State Street in list of three largest managers
JAPAN – Mizuho Trust & Banking has broken into the top three largest asset managers in Japan, displacing State Street Global Advisors Japan (SSgA), a quarterly report by the Japan Pensions Industry Database showed.
Quant: the road to recovery
Emma Dunkley looks at how quant strategies have performed since the beginning of the sub-prime crisis, and considers how they are set to develop
BlackRock assets up 4% in Q3
US – BlackRock reported assets under management of US$1.43trn as of September 30, a jump of over $61bn during the third quarter, the firm said in an earnings release today.
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