Speakers
Richard Urwin, Managing Director and head of Investments
within BlackRock's Fiduciary Mandate Investment
team, will give his perspective on this topic.
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Richard Urwin Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in 2009, Mr. Urwin was head of the Asset Allocation and Economics Research team (AA&E) and lead portfolio manager for the Global Tactical Asset Allocation Strategies within the BlackRock Multi-Asset Client Solutions (BMACS) group, which is responsible for developing, assembling and managing investment solutions involving multiple strategies and asset classes. Mr. Urwins service with the firm dates back to 2006, including his time with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, Mr. Urwin was head of the AA&E team. Previously, he was the head of Strategic Research at Gartmore. He began his career as an economist at the Bank of England. Mr. Urwin earned a BA degree, with first class honours, in economics from Sheffield University in 1981, an MA degree in economics from Warwick University in 1982 and an MBA degree, with distinction, in finance from City University in 1990.
