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GLOBAL - Pension funds look set to fall tantalizingly short of enjoying their best year of investing in hedge funds since 1999, although any gains from 2009 will be welcomed after the alternative asset class suffered its worst ever losses the year before....

GLOBAL - TCW's purchase of Metropolitan West Asset Management may be a predictor of things to come as independent firms will drive merger and acquisition activity in 2010, investment bank Jefferies said.

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GLOBAL - Featuring news from the US, France, UK, and the Netherlands.

Dear reader, Global Pensions' daily news alert will not be publishing from December 23 until after the New Year.

As the year winds to a close, Global Pensions takes a look back at the top 10 most read news stories of the year.

Congratulations to all those providers nominated by their clients for the Global Pensions Awards 2010!

GLOBAL - Exchange traded funds are generally more expensive than many institutional index products and an unattractive long-term investment option for most pension funds, Watson Wyatt claimed.

FRANCE - Investment returns are becoming dominated by the emerging markets, Mercer said.

Proposed changes to IAS19 will dramatically increase reported pension costs, Hewitt Associates said.