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Opalesque Exclusive: BlackRock launched new Agriculture Fund Following recent rumours, an industry source confirmed to Opalesque that BlackRock’s new fund was launched in 1st October 07. It invests across the spectrum of agricultural related equities and soft commodity futures and may also invest directly in agricultural property. It is managed by Graham Birch, head of the BlackRock Natural Resources Team in London. The fund is Luxembourg-domiciled and started with $116m.

The three macro trends that BlackRock believes will be very persistent and provide long term investors with a significant opportunity are; demographics and industrialization, fuel diversity and technological advances.

BlackRock manages US$1.3 trillion across equity, fixed income, real estate, liquidity, and alternative strategies. Headquartered in New York, the firm maintains offices in 20 countries around the world. Corporate website: Source

`Opportunistic` BlackRock thrives in credit turmoil, assumes the role of clean-up king From Reuters: The U.S. credit market turmoil is battering the financial sector but is proving to be a bonanza for money manager BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), which, with its deep fixed income roots, has assumed the role of clean-up king…

Florida officials accepted BlackRock's offer to keep a $14 billion investment pool for local governments afloat by isolating $2 billion of the fund's wor......................

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