FRANCE/SWEDEN - Almost a quarter of French institutional investors expect SRI to account for more than 10% of their assets within three years, found the fifth annual Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) survey.

US - Bankrupt Delphi Corporation is over US$1.25bn behind on required pension funding payments, the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corp (PBGC) has said.

US - The US$11.6bn Ohio Police and Fire Fund (OP&F) has achieved a 5.2% return for the first two quarters of 2006, a report from Evaluation Associates has found.

THE CARBON Disclosure Project is calling on more pension funds to sign up to to its latest request for companies to reveal details of their greenhouse gas emissions.

ROBECO, the Dutch asset manager, has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative as a full member.

INVESTORS should scrutinise "inflated" pensions contracts offered to departing directors or risk the reputation of business Insight Investment has warned.

THE £1.1bn Northamptonshire County Council pension fund has gone out to tender for up to two fund of hedge fund managers.

FRANCE - Almost a quarter of French institutional investors expect SRI to account for more than 10% of their assets within three years, found the fifth annual Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) survey.

FRANCE - Director general of the French civil servants' fund Caisse des Dépôts and Fonds de Réserve Pour les Retraites executive board chairman Francis Mayer, died on Saturday morning at age 56.

US - Dreyfus Corporation CEO Steve Canter is due to retire at the end of the year, with Thomas Eggers appointed to take his place.