AUSTRALIA - The Australian Bureau of Statistics has unveiled the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI), providing a measure of price changes in living cost as they affect pensioners.
GERMANY - Deutsche Börse has released a new index family based on the government bond market, comprising six Eurogov indices.
EUROPE - The first hedge fund exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been launched into the market, by db x-trackers, the ETF arm of Deutsche Bank. The ETF is listed on Deutsche Börse's XTF segment.
US - S&P has released the first in a range of global low carbon indices, designed to meet increasing investor demand for environmentally focussed indices.
AUSTRALIA - Barclays Capital has launched an index in a bid to provide a solution for obtaining liquid inflation exposure in markets where access to inflation-linked instruments is illiquid or non-existent.
GLOBAL - No economic model or financial forecast will accurately predict what happens in the next six to 12 months - except by pure chance, European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) economic commentator Anatole Kalesky has claimed.
GLOBAL- FTSE has launched a dozen indices providing exposure to emerging markets real estate securities.
In its first roundtable on the topic, Global Pensions gathered key industry spokespeople in London to discuss investment in frontier markets
UK - The FTSE has confirmed the latest companies to leave and join the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indexes.
THE FTSE has confirmed the latest companies to leave and join the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices.