Global

GLOBAL - The traditional view of emerging markets is of volatility, risk, instability, and illiquidity. But it make be time to revise this view. Christine Senior takes a closer look at some emerging market highlights.

GLOBAL - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has launched four enhanced equity index pooled strategies for UK clients.

GLOBAL - Schroder Investment Management has predicted war with Iraq is 80% likely, adding "the question mark still remains over participants, strategy and timing."

GLOBAL - Dramatic changes to the yield curves of government bonds are occurring as part of a "global phenomenon", according to bond investors who generally attribute the steepening of the curves to increased government borrowing and interest rate cuts....

GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors has topped the 2002 European (ex-UK) ranking of recorded pension fund mandate wins with E2bn of new business gained throughout the year.

GLOBAL - Standard & Poor's real-time credit ratings and research service, CreditWire, will be now available via Reuters.

GLOBAL- JPMorgan Fleming's institutional liquidity funds have broken through the US$30bn mark.

GLOBAL - Corporate bond yields will rise once tension over conflict in Iraq eases, Axa Investment Managers believes.

GLOBAL - Fund managers remain seriously divided over the prospect for equities this year.

GLOBAL - The latest issue of the Summit Group's Journal of Securities Operations is now available.