Mark Lyttleton, a former fund manager at BlackRock, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two counts of insider trading and will be sentenced on 21 December, the Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed.
The US Department of Labor’s planned RDR-style rule change on providing investment advice for retirement planning, will have a major impact on investment flows, fund management giant BlackRock said in its quarterly results statement on Tuesday.
BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is cutting prices across its core ETFs ahead of a new US rule that will require financial advisers to put clients’ best interests ahead of their own profits.
One of the keys to getting decent investment returns in the current economic climate is to tap into the stream of dividends paid out by companies, says Stuart Reeve, portfolio manager at BlackRock.
Most people have already accepted that a guaranteed income product for life does not exist, says Tom Hodgson, BlackRock’s strategic partnership director.
Mark Lyttleton, a former star manager of BlackRock UK Absolute Alpha, has been charged with three counts of insider dealing by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Prominent figures in the asset management industry give their views on the challenges and opportunities facing the sector at International Adviser’s Fund Links Forum 2016.
BlackRock is launching four thematic exchange traded funds to capture what it says are investment opportunities created by global ‘megatrends’.
BlackRock has launched the Strategic Funds Asia Pacific Absolute Return Fund, which will aim to exploit the region’s “under-appreciated areas of strength.”
European investors have been dismissing US equities as too expensive for a couple of years. But as the S&P 500 continues to outperform other equity markets, appetite for the asset class is again on the rise.
US fund management giant BlackRock has joined the ongoing shift into emerging markets by upgrading the asset class to overweight in its asset allocation outlook.
BlackRock has launched a fixed income fund that invests in global macroeconomic strategies with exposure to regions where interest rates are attractive and also where markets are effected by supportive monetary policy.
