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GLOBAL - Pension schemes are still eyeing opportunistic investments despite the severity of the current crisis, asset managers say.

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds will refocus on liquidity and re-evaluate the allocations of their combined US$3.2trn in assets, particularly their exposure to risk assets, as they emerge from the global financial crisis, a State Street panel said.

GLOBAL - Corporate pension schemes are lagging behind other categories of asset owners in signing up to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment, a consultant claimed.

FRANCE- AXA earnings; CANADA- Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec; AUSTRALIA- Super review panel

Emma Dunkley speaks to Edward Whitehouse, head of pension-policy analysis in the social policy division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about how pension funds around the world have coped with the economic crisis

GLOBAL - Julius Baer has created a structured version of its Physical Gold Fund, available to pension funds and other institutional investors.

GLOBAL - Net outflows from long-term investment funds worldwide slowed to €5bn (US$7.1bn) in the first quarter of 2009 after an average outflow of €211bn per quarter in the second half of 2008, data by the European Fund and Asset Management Association...

GLOBAL - Brazil has the worst pension savings record, with 84% of people not holding any pensions savings, according to a survey of 15 countries by Datamonitor.

INCLUDING: US - Delphi; US - Lockheed earnings cut by pension costs; SWEDEN - Swedes not to work over 65.

GLOBAL - The International Accounting Standards Board is set to stick by its decision to make firms include all gains and losses relating to their pension arrangements in the year they occur, GP can reveal.