SCHEMES should not be put off investing in infrastructure by "alarmist" claims the sector faces a dot com-style bubble, consultants say.

FOUR Neptune Investment Management funds finished top of their sectors in 2006, figures show.

US - Walden Asset Management has approached ExxonMobil on climate control issues as part of its shareholder advocacy initiatives for 2007.

Barclays arm looks to raise $1bn for its first fund of external funds; Britain ‘poised for three years of rapid growth'

UK - British Airways Pension Fund (BAPF) and Tesco have announced a 50/50 joint property venture worth £445m.

OVERALL pension deficits in the UK almost halved from £72bn to £41bn in 2006, research reveals.

US - California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made "misleading and incomplete" statements about the state's pension costs, California State Employees Association (CSEA) president J.J. Jelincic has claimed.

JARDINE Lloyd Thompson Benefit Solutions has launched a group self-invested personal pension for its employees.

NIGERIA - The government for the Nigerian state of Osun settled all outstanding pensions for civil servants and paid out a total of NGN2.5bn (US$19.5m) over 2006.

US - The Nevada PERS has confirmed it will drop Rogge Global Partners from an active international bond mandate for failing to achieve its long term performance objective.