DENMARK - Danish pension provider ATP recorded a DKK17.4bn ($3.2bn) profit in the nine months to September.

GLOBAL - Investor confidence fell 1.9 points in October, State Street research shows.

FRANCE - Fonds de reserve pour les retraites (FRR) has put its currency overly mandate out to tender.

AUSTRALIA - The chief executives of nine superannuation funds and investment management firms have formed a new panel to address climate change.

UBS; Schroders; BNP Paribas Investment Partners; Dalriada Trustees; Vebnet; J O Hambro Investment Management

GLOBAL - World population growth, climate change and other issues are transforming sustainability into a key issue for institutional investors, research by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) suggests.

US - The New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF) has committed $300m to US private equity firm Blackstone.

AUSTRALIA - Bi-partisan consensus on superannuation policy must be achieved to give Australian workers confidence in their retirement savings, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (AFSA) said.

SWITZERLAND - Swiss banking group SYZ has integrated its institutional asset management activities within the newly-created SYZ Asset Management division.

GLOBAL - Pension funds are struggling to define sustainability with many automatically lumping thematic funds, like clean technology, into sustainable portfolios, said RCM.