Global

Including: MALAYSIA - CAAM opens Malaysia office; GLOBAL - IASB and FASB announce roundtable locations; GERMANY - db x-trackers launches credit market ETFs

GLOBAL - Emerging markets are in much better shape than they were five years ago, and fund managers are now even more keen to hang on to the decoupling theory, according to Standard & Poor's.

GLOBAL - Pension schemes will need to cope with a profits recession, as well as a much more volatile inflation cycle in the near future, Standard Life says.

GLOBAL - Watson Wyatt Worldwide saw revenues in its investment consulting group rise by 5% between June and September as demand for advice on investment strategy increased.

GLOBAL - The global exchange traded fund (ETF) industry is set to explode, with assets projected to reach US$1trn next year and then double in 2010, data from Barclays Global Investors (BGI) reveals.

GLOBAL - The pension fund members of the Global Pensions 100 Panel are divided on the issue of whether it is right for government bodies to use public pension fund assets to provide emergency liquidity to stricken financial institutions.

GLOBAL - A guide for institutional hedge fund investors has been launched today by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).

Including: AUSTRALIA - New South Wales may sell pension admin business; US - Boeing strike called off; US - MSCI launches Asia indices

GLOBAL - Small and mid sized pension funds that invest through commingled funds will be able to access transition management services allowing them to change investment strategy through a newly launched service by BNY ConvergEx.

GLOBAL - Nearly half of the investors in the recently closed US$1.5bn UBS International Infrastructure Fund are pension funds predominantly from the UK, continental Europe and the US.