Investment

INVESTORS are poised to put more cash into "soft" commodities as the commodity cycle turns and demand for biofuels soars, Baring Asset Management believes.

THE NEW director of the £3.6bn London Pensions Fund Authority Vanessa James has outlined her key priorities for the remainder of 2007.

A short-term bond issue by Société Générale gives investors exposure to the 25 largest private equity companies.

SCHEMES would have seen better performance if they had held a proportion of assets in commercial property over the past 20 years, new research shows.

BNP PARIBAS Asset Management is set to merge its traditional investment management and its indexed & structured investment management teams.

COMMERZBANK has sold Jupiter Asset Management to a consortium of senior staff and private equity firm TA Associates for £740m.

SCHRODERS has launched a "third generation" liability-driven investment product that combines liability-matching strategies and high-growth assets.

THE PENSION Protection Fund has appointed five fund managers to help increase its assets to £5bn over the next two years.

DEFINED contribution schemes are increasingly using ethical funds as default options, F&C Asset Management claims.

Here it is - the full shortlist for this year's UK Pensions Awards.