UK - State Street was forced to reimburse a client for a transition management trade after an internal investigation, which led to the dismissal and possible dismissal of senior transition managers Ross Mclellan and Edward Pennings, found the client had...

Jeremy Cooper, author of Australia's Cooper review on superannuation, talks about his vision behind a lower-cost, more efficient pension system. He talks about the failure of traditional drivers of competition to lower prices in the financial services...

ASIA - Asian institutional investors outside of Japan are looking to boost returns by investing more heavily in liquid alternatives, high yield debt and emerging markets while Japanese investors are looking for non-domestic opportunities, a new survey...

GLOBAL - PIMCO has hired five new investment staffers in London, New York and Singapore to round out its emerging markets equities team, with two joining from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).

AUSTRALIA - The A$24bn Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has hired Northern Trust as custodian, marking the firm's first full-service master custody client in Australia.

KPMG has hired Jon Exley, former partner at rival Mercer's financial strategy group, to serve as partner within the investment advisory practice.

CANADA - The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has launched a new venture capital arm that will play "a unique role in the industry" by providing funding to North American companies throughout their investment lifecycle.

Investors need to raise their knowledge of the transition management process if they expect to have successful transitions, delegates heard.

GLOBAL - A handful of sophisticated pension funds are expanding their securities lending programmes to include lending emerging markets securities, which rake in higher fees than their developed market counterparts, an eSecLending official said.

AUSTRALIA - The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority is seeking feedback on proposals to strengthen corporate governance at super funds by requiring them to hold more capital, conduct stronger due diligence on external managers and improve risk...