Confused and muddling along..... - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
22 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Overseas investment staff, access to investment technology, great CV builder and ability to open doors with clients.

Cons

Local management rudderless and have changed culture to be more IB like than asset management. Clients getting a hold of change in culture. Active products consistently fail to meet investment objectives over the full cycle. The percentage of active funds that do would be very low. Development is very limited. There's an inner circle and if you are not in it, dont expect to be paid a bonus and do all the 'grunt' work.

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