BlackRock Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has today re-branded under the simplified name BlackRock.
The move means the firm’s international fund range, Merrill Lynch International Investment Funds (MLIIF), will be renamed under BlackRock Global Funds (BGF). Each fund within the international range will change from MLIIF to BGF, while the firm’s UK unit trust range will be labelled under the BlackRock name instead of Merrill Lynch. Furthermore, shareholders of each investment trust have approved the change of name to BlackRock. “We are excited to be ready to take this important step ahead of our originally anticipated schedule,” BlackRock vice chairman Barbara Novick says. “This d...
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