BlackRock

BlackRock has launched an Emerging Markets Absolute Return fund for managers Sam Vecht and Henry Wigan.

Inflation may have held steady at 2.7% in the final month of 2012, but this year it is expected to rear its ugly head once more as the impact of falling sterling pushes up import costs.

BlackRock has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the exchange-traded funds (ETF) business of Credit Suisse, in a deal set to complete by the end of the second quarter.

Charlotte Richards talks to managers about how they are hoping to profit from the transformed energy landscape.

Global fund management groups such as BlackRock, T Rowe Price and Federated Investors are rushing to set up ‘ultra-short' bond funds to lure investors away from the money markets.

David Gardner, head of EMEA sales and BlackRock's iShares veteran, is set to retire after 12 years.

Bob Doll has joined Nuveen Asset Management as chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager in a surprise move following his retirement from BlackRock in the summer.

Ex-UBS manager Lawrence Kemp has resurfaced at BlackRock's New York office, where he has been appointed as managing director and head of the firm's fundamental large-cap growth team.

It has been a hectic year for investors, with the eurozone debacle driving core bond yields to record lows, while equity markets were buffeted by fears over China and the US.

Barclays has appointed Rory Tobin, former head of iShares International, to work on reviewing the group's asset management arm.