BlackRock

A BlackRock employee has left the group after being found to have avoided £43,000 in train fares over the past five years.

BlackRock has soft-closed its European Opportunities Extension fund at £540m to protect investors.

Funds from BlackRock and J.P. Morgan have been added to Sanlam Private Investment's bi-annual list of underperforming income portfolios after a tough year for some of their mandates.

Investment trust analysts have slapped buy ratings on a number of smaller companies trusts, as recent selling opens up significant discounts in the sector.

BlackRock is planning to hard-close the £1.2bn BSF European Credit Strategies fund, managed by Michael Phelps to new money.

The wait is over

BlackRock has launched two iShares exchange-traded funds to target emerging market consumption and US dividends, following fee cuts on its revamped 'Core' range last week.

Jupiter's Maarten Slendebroek

Andrew Swan, manager of the newly launched BlackRock Asia Special Situations fund, has rotated away from growth stocks in the view they are overpriced, turning to value companies instead.

BlackRock has reduced prices on its iShares Core Series range for European investors, just a week after Fidelity Worldwide Investment cut prices on its own core range of passives.