Global

Including: NETHERLANDS - PGGM appoints CFRO; CANADA - ACPM welcomes pensions review; CHILE - BNPP IP buys BancoEstado subsidiary

GLOBAL - Outflows from Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) shot up in the third quarter of 2008 to €92bn (US$116bn), latest figures show.

GLOBAL - Hermes has endorsed the Bank of Brazil pension fund's (PREVI) Guide to Shareholders' Participation in Shareholder Meetings.

INCLUDING: NORWAY - Norges Bank won't purchase foreign exchange; UK - North Yorkshire appoints ING; UK - BRAL appoints Mercer

Including: DENMARK - ATP ups Carlsberg stake; CANADA - Unnamed fund taps into gold mine; NORWAY - SAS pension case settled; UK - Passive mandate win for SSgA

GLOBAL - The market value of assets in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund has dropped 29.6% since the start of the year.

In its second annual roundtable on the topic, Global Pensions gathered key spokespeople in Stockholm to discuss investment in emerging markets

Giovanni Legorano examines the effects of the credit crunch on custodians and looks at the increasing demand for cross-country pension pooling

GLOBAL - 'Good' managers only get 51% of their decisions right, research from Inalytics has found.

GLOBAL - Fundamental pension reforms have been far more extensive in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) than those in western industrialised countries, research shows.