Lehman Brothers Financial SA (LEHNQ)

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Confirming that LMBS is related to Lehman Brothers via ishares and Blackrock.

Mates and his posts on LMBS being related to LEHKQ, LEHLQ and LEHNQ...

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Lehman Brothers Holdings hires BlackRock to manage $3 bn loan ...
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../lehman-brothers...blackrock.../15513387.cms - Cached
5 days ago ... WCAS Fraser Sullivan Investment Management LLC previously oversaw the
loans, which are typically for high-yield, high-risk companies.

BlackRock: The secret world power | Business| Economy and ...
www.dw.com/en/blackrock-the-secret-world-power/a-18653761 - Cached - Similar
17 Aug 2015 ... But in the years after the Lehman [Brothers] collapse [in 2008], BlackRock
appeared everywhere. Everywhere!," Buchter said. On Monday, her 280-page
exposé - the first-ever of its kind - appears in German. Lack of transparency. The
author recalls a lunch with an insider. He asked her, only half-jokingly, ...

BlackRock puts money behind Lehman - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/.../13iht-blackrock.13.13692753.html
13 Jun 2008 ... NEW YORK — BlackRock, the largest publicly traded fund manager in the United
States, bought shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings in a secondary offering this
week and is optimistic about the firm's prospects, a BlackRock executive said. "
We have confidence in the firm, in the leadership," BlackRock ...

Lehman Brothers picks BlackRock to run $3 billion loan liquidation ...
www.pionline.com/.../lehman-brothers-picks-
blackrock-to-run-3-billion-loan-liquidation-portfolio - Cached
15 Aug 2012 ... Lehman Brothers Holdings hired BlackRock Solutions to manage a liquidation
portfolio of roughly $3 billion in commercial loans.

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"BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager that has a multitrillion-dollar kingdom of passively managed portfolios, is turning to robots to drive its latest push into active exchange-traded funds.

The firm is starting a suite of ETFs under the “iShares Evolved” brand. The funds will pick their holdings in industries such as technology, innovative health care and media entertainment based on machine learning and natural language processing, according to a BlackRock statement Friday.

“We’ve learned that one size just can’t fit all,” said Jeff Shen, co-head of investments for BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equity group. “The old days of thinking that companies do one thing and one thing only is long behind us and with that comes the recognition that a particular company can belong to various sectors.”

For example, consider Amazon.com Inc., which traditionally is a top holding in most retail funds. But the company has evolved to the point where it’s also considered a giant among technology stocks. So Amazon will be a holding in the new iShares Evolved U.S. Technology ETF, one of the seven new funds.

Name Ticker
iShares Evolved U.S. Technology ETF IETC
iShares Evolved U.S. Consumer Staples ETF IECS
iShares Evolved U.S. Discretionary Spending ETF IEDI
iShares Evolved U.S. Financials ETF IEFN
iShares Evolved U.S. Healthcare Staples ETF IEHS
iShares Evolved U.S. Innovative Healthcare IEIH
iShares Evolved U.S. Media and Entertainment IEME

BlackRock’s so-called systematic active equity group will be able to use natural language processing to give investors more forward-looking views of sector definitions because the information can be obtained by scanning regulatory filings, Shen said. So investors are likely to see movement in the funds’ holdings every month.

Everything AI
The demand from millennial investors for “everything AI” has become insatiable, according to Josh Lukeman, head of ETF market making for the Americas at Credit Suisse AG. This may help BlackRock make good on its prediction that half of U.S. investors will own an ETF by 2020.

“As ETF classifications evolve, AI technology could be at the forefront in stretching self-indexing to its limits, spawning a new era in ETF issuance,” he said.

The new sector funds are cheaper than BlackRock’s legacy sector lineup, with fees of $1.80 for every $1,000 invested compared with $4.30 for the firm’s earlier suite.

Still, the new strategies will likely struggle to pry money away from the cheap, uber liquid sector favorites out there, like the $21 billion Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund, known by its ticker XLK, or the $32 billion Financial Selector Sector SPDR Fund, or XLF, said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas.

“These funds might lure the people who are unhappy with active mutual funds and want to decorate their portfolio with a low cost theme they can easily understand,” Balchunas said. “It’s harder to peel off assets from monsters like XLK or XLF which are more liquid than the ocean.”

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/blackrock-looks-to-robots-to-lead-its-new-active-sector-etfs