Global

GLOBAL - Institutional investors should search existing and new market opportunities to build more diversified portfolios, Towers Watson said.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors are increasingly investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), a report by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) revealed.

GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board has published an exposure draft of proposed amendments to IAS19, dealing with how pension costs are recorded in company accounts.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors are showing increasing interest in active strategies following a first quarter of 2010 devoted to reassessing their asset allocations, BlackRock chairman and chief executive Laurence Fink said.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors' search for managers grew globally by 22% last year and pension funds are likely to show more interest in liability driven investment, data from Mercer revealed.

GLOBAL - Hedge funds managers are divided on what effect greater regulation will have on their products, a survey showed.

GLOBAL - Tectona G Capital and Investment Managers, GlobalReach Securities has launched a timber fund that could draw between US$130m - $200m of institutional money, the firm said.

Giovanni Legorano speaks to Robert Gardner, co-founder and co-chief executive at Redington. Gardner takes us through some of the issues and opportunities pension funds are dealing with in the current market environment: inflation, the evolution of liability...

GLOBAL - Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving managers of alternative strategies grew to a record 50% of all global asset management transactions in the first quarter, data by Jefferies & Co.'s Financial Institutions Group revealed.

GLOBAL - The fees pension funds pay to invest in hedge funds are falling overall, but investors are taking a varied view on when they feel lowering charges is particularly justified, according to recent surveys.