SWEDEN - Staff overseeing the SCA pension fund are considering decreasing its exposure to equities as it searches for higher-yielding products.

IRELAND - The Irish government plans to use assets from the €24bn ($32bn) National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) to support the government bond market and infrastructure investment, the National Recovery Report has confirmed.

DENMARK - The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority plans to release mortality benchmarks in the coming days which will be used to help calculate pension liabilities.

Pension funds should be preparing their operational arrangements for a potential fracture in the eurozone, Schroders chief investment officer Alan Brown warns.

CANADA/NETHERLANDS - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and APG have teamed up to buy a 50% in a Westfield Stratford City in London.

SWEDEN - Swedish AP funds one through four have hired a group of advisers to provide analysis on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

EUROPE - Pension funds should be preparing their operational arrangements for a potential fracture in the eurozone, Schroders chief investment officer Alan Brown warns.

US - New York City may reduce the assumed return on its $100.5 billion of pension investments from the current 8% rate, Comptroller John Liu said.

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