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GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) today voted to not move forward with plans to eliminate the use of government bonds to determine discount rates.

GLOBAL - The take up of infrastructure by institutional investors is being compromised by high fees, Watson Wyatt said.

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GLOBAL - The vast majority of institutional investors (81%) did not make any new commitments to infrastructure in 2009, a drastic slowdown in fundraising from last year, a survey from Preqin revealed.

GLOBAL - Private pension funds have not been using benchmarks that measure them against their long-term goal of providing income replacement, a preliminary report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) found.

GLOBAL - Dutch retirement income systems came first and Australian systems a close second in a new global pension index comparing private and public pension schemes based on adequacy, sustainability and integrity.

Simon Hedger discusses why global property securities currently offer substantial opportunities for pension funds

Romanian pension funds; US private equity; Watson Wyatt UK appointment

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds invest about US$1trn in international equity, less than half the amount of assets under management at the ten largest sovereign wealth funds, a new report found.

GLOBAL - Inflation is unlikely to be a threat in the short term due to the current levels of economic growth and the government policies implemented around the world, the latest global economic research by Baring Asset Management (BAM) has revealed.