BlackRock

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  BlackRock’s Fink Advises 100% Allocation to Equities

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 8, 2012

  BlackRock's Larry Fink told Bloomberg Television from Hong Kong that investors should have 100% of investments in equities due to low valuations and higher returns than bonds.

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  Top Portfolio Products: ProShares ETF Focuses on Germany; BlackRock Offers New Fund

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 27, 2012

  New products over the last week include a new ETF focusing on German debt from ProShares and a reintroduced multi-asset income fund from BlackRock.

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  BlackRock’s Fink Slams SocGen Over ETFs

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 17, 2011

  Synthetic ETFs were the target on Wednesday of Laurence D. Fink, CEO of BlackRock, as he criticized the products of Société Générale SA, saying that he didn’t want them to damage the industry.

• BlackRock Seeks to Run ETFs Using Own Indexes

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2011

  BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, filed an application with the SEC for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow its own indexes rather than those developed by third parties such as Standard & Poor’s.

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  BlackRock Adds Index Funds for DC Plans as Index Trend Grows

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 11, 2011

  BlackRock's head of defined contribution plans, Chip Castille, says the firm's launch of 10 new index funds comes in response to a growing trend toward index funds for DC plans.