Institutional investors with more than $20trn (£12.7bn) in assets are urging global policy makers to create strategies that encourage private sector investment in climate change solutions.

CANADA/US - Teachers' Private Capital, a unit of the C$107.5bn ($106.4bn) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and the $37.3bn Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois have made equity investments to finance company NXT Capital.

US - Kimberly Clark, maker of Kleenex and Huggies, is increasing the pension contribution into its $3bn defined benefit plan by up to $260m because of its decreased funded status.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch telecom company Royal KPN said its pension funding decreased to 96% at the end of the third quarter in 2011, down 12 percentage points from the previous quarter.

IRELAND - Most small Irish pension funds will fund the controversial new pensions levy by reducing member benefits, an Aon Hewitt survey finds.

US - Institutional investment managers believe US equities are undervalued despite many expecting a further decline in US economic growth, a Northern trust survey finds

AUSTRALIA - The median balanced superannuation fund has fallen for the fifth consecutive month returning -1.8%, -4.9% for the September quarter and -3.8% for the past year, SuperRatings finds.

FRANCE - The Fonds de reserve pour les retraites' funding ratio fell to 132%, dropping 11 percentage points from June's value due to decreasing interest rates on 10-year bonds.

Institutional investors with over $20trn (£12.7bn) in assets are urging global policy makers to create policies that encourage private sector investment in climate change solutions.

GLOBAL -Institutional investors with over $20trn in assets are urging global policy makers to create policies that encourage private sector investment in climate change solutions.