Investment

In January 2008, Global Pensions launched the inaugural New York Transition Management Forum New York. It was attended by pension fund managers, asset controllers and industry professionals from all over the US. Reporting by Elizabeth Pfeuti

THE number of the UK's biggest schemes selecting private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers reached record levels last year, Watson Wyatt data reveals.

STATE Street Global Advisors is set to launch a range of diversified growth strategies in a bid to provide a default option for defined contribution schemes.

AVIVA is set to combine its asset management businesses into one globally integrated firm - Aviva Investors - from September.

ASHMORE GROUP has unveiled interim results for the last six months of 2007 - revealing a 68pc increase in profit before tax.

Kemal Ahmed and Joseph Mariathasan explain why the typical benchmarked approach to investing in emerging markets equities does not allow investors access to the full emerging markets story

In the fastchanging Dutch pensions environment, both pension funds and asset managers are having to rethink their game in order to keep their place in the industry. Keren Holland reports

NATIONWIDE has decided to withdraw from the additional voluntary contribution market leaving smaller pension schemes facing an £8500 transfer bill.

ABERDEEN Asset Management is set to diversify the investment strategy of its multi-asset fund in a bid to reduce risk and boost returns.

THE Pensions Regulator has gone out to consultation on plans to include mortality assumptions as a new "trigger" for funding plans.