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AUSTRALIA - Mariner Financial has announced its intention to expand into the institutional market with the appointment of James Panaretos as head of institutional sales.

UK - The pension buyout market has been named a slowburner with innovations destined to soon rock the boat, according to a new Aon Consulting report.

GLOBAL- THE Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has produced a new set of due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) for pension fund trustees and those investing or servicing the hedge fund industry.

GLOBAL - JP Morgan has launched two new investment tools designed to help investors boost risk-adjusted returns.

GLOBAL - Hedge funds will soon make up over 10% of the conventional institutional investor's portfolios as the vehicle continues to evolve, according to the latest Vision report released by State Street.

Global Pensions wishes to make it clear that the story published on February 1 with the headline ‘EAI to disband by 2010' referred to the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, and not Evaluation Associates, the US-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Milliman Inc....

GLOBAL- A new defined contribution analysis provider, PensionDCisions, has received further financing and expanded its team in preparation for a global roll-out of its services.

GLOBAL - Index provider MSCI Barra's plan to update and upgrade the methodology behind its investable indices, adding 28,000 new indices in the process, was formally announced today.

GLOBAL - The fee structures of asset management firms are a threat to their own survival, claimed an article in Watson Wyatt's Global Investment Review 2007.

UK - Schroders has launched a third generation liability driven investment (LDI) platform aimed at reducing investment uncertainties by bringing a closer match to assets and liabilities.