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CalPERS punishes BlackRock for Stuy Town disaster

Another page has turned in the history of the Stuyvesant Town – Peter Cooper Village apartment buildings in New York, as iconic as they have been controversial since their initial construction in the 1940s. CalPERS, America’s largest pension fund, has terminated BlackRock, one of its property managers which led a 2006 purchase of the 80-acre […]
GREG BRIGHTOctober 6, 2010
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Complacency about liquidity a trap for institutions

Liquidity is the paramount risk factor for institutional investors to be cognisant of according to Ben Golub, vice chairman and chief risk officer, Blackrock who has co-authored a new paper outlining the risks learned from the credit crisis. He spoke to Amanda White about the suitable internal structure for institutional risk management and the risk […]
Amanda WhiteFebruary 10, 2010
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A colossus emerges – prospects and industry implications

A new fund management behemoth was formed this year when Barclays Global Investors (BGI) was sold by its parent bank Barclays to BlackRock. Mergers of this sort have a patchy history. By Dr Arjuna Sittampalam, Research Associate with EDHEC-Risk and Editor, Investment Management Review, looks at the issues of how this particular alliance will fare […]
STAFF WRITERNovember 10, 2009
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