Hardy quits Northern Trust for BlackRock

Asset management veteran Kevin Hardy has quit Northern Trust and is set to join BlackRock to head its Asia-Pacific index equity team, AsianInvestor can confirm. Hardy has worked at Northern Trust for almost nine years, most recently as managing director and head of global investments for Asia-Pacific. He was also country head for Hong Kong. He has been in that role for just under four years, his longest within the firm and an extension of what was initially intended as a two-yea…