ON SPECIALIST MARKETS
BlackRock's new Frontiers investment trust will have large a exposure to the Middle East and Africa, but limited holdings in Asia and Latin America.
BlackRock Corporate Bond fund manager Daniel McKernan is leaving the company.
BlackRock's Andrew Williamson-Jones has turned over 25% of his Global Equity fund in the past four months to almost double the portfolio's emerging market exposure.
The managers of the £187m BlackRock Greater Europe investment trust have significantly outperformed their benchmark thanks to an overweight to industrials and an underweight to financials.
BlackRock's chief equity strategist Bob Doll is still bullish on information technology despite some underperformance from the sector recently.
Ian Winship has joined BlackRock as a senior portfolio manager on its sterling fundamental fixed income team.
BlackRock's Richard Plackett has handed the management of his UK Smaller Companies fund to co-manager Ralph Cox.