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Jolie Ho

Dec 6, 2018

The world's biggest asset manager will see the executive depart, as its actively managed offshore fund assets shrank this year in Taiwan, even as its local ETF business is thriving.

BlackRock’s head of channel sales in Taiwan will leave the firm, against a backdrop of a stagnating assets in its local actively managed products, even as...

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