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In a world that is shifting and changing faster than ever before, investors who want answers that unlock opportunity and uncover risk entrust their assets to BlackRock. As an independent, global investment manager, BlackRock has no greater responsibility than to its clients.

 

It's why many of the world's largest pension funds and insurance companies trust BlackRock to understand their unique objectives and why financial advisers and investors partner with BlackRock to help them build the more dynamic, diverse portfolios these times require.

 

BlackRock has built its offering around its clients' greatest needs: providing breadth of capabilities and depth of knowledge across active and index strategies, including iShares® ETFs. This is combined with a singular focus on delivering strong, consistent performance and an ability to look across asset classes, geographies and investment strategies to find the right solutions. With deep roots in every region across the globe, some 100 investment teams in 27 countries share their best thinking to gain the insights that can change outcomes. And, with a passion to understand risk in all its forms, BlackRock's 1,000+ risk professionals dig deep to find the numbers behind the numbers and bring clarity to the most daunting financial challenges. That shapes and strengthens the investment decisions that BlackRock and its clients are making to deliver better, more consistent returns through time.

 

BlackRock. Investing for a new world.

HSBC Global Asset Management, the core investment business of the HSBC Group, manages assets totalling US$400.2 billion, and is a leader in emerging markets funds, with $122.3 billion invested in this asset class. HSBC Global Asset Management has a worldwide client base of private clients, intermediaries, corporates and institutions invested in both segregated accounts and pooled funds. HSBC Global Asset Management fulfils its purpose of connecting these customers with investment opportunities through an international network of offices in approximately 30 countries, delivering global capabilities with local market insight. (All figures as at 31 December 2011). 

Eastspring Investments, part of Prudential Corporation Asia, is Prudential plc*'s asset management business in Asia with about US$85 billion under management (as at March 31, 2012).  We are one of Asias largest asset managers with operations in 11 markets and about 2000 employees in the region. With an investment focus almost exclusively on Asia, Eastspring Investments now operates in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Vietnam, and has joint venture operations in India, China and Hong Kong. We also recently extended our distribution business beyond Asia, to the US, with offices in Chicago and Denver.

We manage funds on behalf of a wide range of retail and institutional investors, including life and pension products sold by Prudential plc in the UK and across Asia, with about half our assets sourced from third parties.

We have investment teams in nine markets, with our largest team based in our regional hub in Singapore. Our portfolio managers are responsible for funds across a broad range of asset classes including Asian equities and fixed income, global emerging market equities and alternative assets.Our investment expertise also extends to a specialist Global Asset Allocation team which manages portfolios worldwide.

*Prudential  plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc, a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America.

Invesco believes focus is a critical element for investment excellence. Our sole focus is investment management - so with no distractions from competing interests, we direct all of our global resources toward helping investors achieve their long-term financial objectives.

Source: Invesco, as at 31 March 2012