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BlackRock launches Australia’s first ESG-focused Australian Bond Index Fund

BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited (BlackRock) has announced the launch of its new unlisted ESG-focused Australian Bond Index (ESGABI) fund. The fund, benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI SRI

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07 Mar 2019

An open letter to business leaders

Each year, I write to the companies in which BlackRock invests on behalf of our clients, the majority of whom have decades-long horizons and are planning for retirement. As a

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21 Jan 2019

Blackrock appoints Geraldine Buckingham as chair and head of Blackrock Asia Pacific

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has appointed Geraldine Buckingham as Chair and Head of BlackRock Asia Pacific, succeeding Ryan Stork, who becomes Deputy Global Chief Operating Officer, based in New York. Both appointments take effect February 2019 and

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27 Nov 2018

BlackRock 2019 Asia Investment Outlook

BlackRock investment professionals have set out their investment outlook for 2019 on the Asian equities and credit markets. The year 2019 could be this year’s mirror image when risk assets

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22 Nov 2018

Insurers ready to increase risk exposure as macroeconomic concerns abate

Despite challenging market conditions and profitability remaining under continued pressure, insurers are in a relatively upbeat mood and ready to take on more risk, according to a study commissioned by

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24 Sep 2018

BlackRock’s cross-listed iShares to be restructured as Australian funds

BlackRock is proposing, subject to investor approval, to simplify the way fourteen of our iShares ETFs are offered on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The ASX offer of these fourteen

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04 May 2018

Powell’s congressional testimony displays commitment to threading-the-needle between goal attainment and overheating

Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, regarding FOMC Chair Powell’s testimony before the U.S. Congress. Since the late-1970s, when Congress mandated that the Federal Reserve provide

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01 Mar 2018

The stock swoon in context

Global equity markets suffered a sharp reversal in early February after notching a string of record highs. We believe the slide is mainly driven by an unwinding of popular trades

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08 Feb 2018

BlackRock appoints Kimberly Kim, Head of Financial Institutions Group, Asia Pacific

BlackRock has appointed Kimberly Kim to the newly-created post of Head of Financial Institutions Group, Asia Pacific, effective April 2018. Based in Hong Kong, Kimberly will formulate and execute an

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06 Feb 2018

Global institutional investors braced for market risks; pursuing an active approach in 2018

Faced with low interest rates and relatively high valuations for risk assets, large global institutional investors are looking to protect themselves against downturn risks through maintaining their cash levels and

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22 Jan 2018

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