Global

THE NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund for health and social workers, PGGM, will consider later this year whether to outsource EUR250m of assets, currently handled by NIB Capital Asset Management (NIB).

THE NETHERLANDS - Goldman Sachs Asset Management has bagged a Dutch fudiciary mandate.

GERMANY/GLOBAL - Deutsche Bank has hinted it could be looking to sell its global custody and passive asset management businesses.

THE NETHERLANDS/GLOBAL - Dutch financial service group, ABN AMRO, lifted market expectations with its first quarter results despite a 42% slump in net profits.

THE NETHERLANDS - Six Dutch pension funds which merged their operations may be looking to change their investment management structure over the coming months.

THE NETHERLANDS - The second largest Dutch pension fund, PGGM, and Dutch CGNU subsidiary, Delta Lloyd, have axed plans to set up a joint venture insurance firm

GLOBAL - Jones Lang LaSalle has announced the appointment of James Jasionowski to the new position of global director of tax. He reports to Lauralee Martin, the firm's chief financial officer.

UK/GLOBAL - As part of its refocusing plans, London-based Rothschild Asset Management is to hive off its Australian arm.

GLOBAL - The growing dominance of equity holdings by institutional investors, both domestic and international, is casting a sharp focus on their activities and owners and monitors of firms, according to a pensions academic in a new paper.

UK/GLOBAL - The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on around 100 UK pension funds to back its stance against human rights abuses in Burma.