Investment

MORE than 1200 trustees flagged up suspicious behaviour by sponsoring employers to The Pensions Regulator in the past year, its annual report reveals.

MORE THAN 1200 whistleblowers flagged up suspected Pensions Act breaches by sponsoring employers to The Pensions Regulator last year, the body's annual report reveals.

Société Générale Index has launched a benchmark index for the worldwide security sector.

New funds - set up under the EU's Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities directives - have been launched by SEI and Axa Investment Managers.

THREADNEEDLE has issued a global equity income fund that will typically invest in between 75 and 95 companies at any one time.

The Board for Actuarial Standards has launched a review of the mortality assumptions made in actuarial calculations.

BNP Paribas has completed its coverage of the UK offshore markets with the acquisition of RBS International Securities Services.

Skandia Investment Management has restructured its European equity manager line-up with the addition of Argonaut and Alliance Bernstein.

NORTHERN Trust Global Advisers has awarded a e26m (£17.6m) equity growth mandate to RCM, part of Allianz Global Investors.

Charlemagne Capital's Magna Africa Fund has reached e55m (£37.1m) in assets under management in its first three months.