BlackRock veteran Richard Plackett, former head of the UK Small and Mid Cap equities team and co-manager of the £1.4bn Special Situations fund, is to retire from fund management after a quarter of a century, Professional Adviser sister title Investment...
Rupert Harrison,former chief of staff to Chancellor George Osborne, is to take up a new role at BlackRock to help develop its retirement proposition.
BlackRock has launched its first drawdown offering for pension schemes to capitalise on the Budget freedoms introduced earlier this month.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned of a scam firm using the details of investment manager BlackRock to defraud investors.
The former BlackRock executive who paid £43,000 compensation for dodging train fares has said reports of his wrongdoing have been exaggerated.
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How asset managers are meeting the pensions challenge
The baby boom generation looks set to sleep walk into retirement as 40% have yet to begin saving into a pension, research shows.