Investment

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.

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

FUND managers are planning to launch a wave of "130/30" funds for institutional investors, new research suggests.

The HSBC Libor Plus fund has been assigned an AA-f fund credit rating by Standard & Poor's.

CHINA will still deliver good returns to schemes in 2007 despite recent turbulence in its equity markets, Baring Asset Management believes.