Global

As food prices rise across the world, Nicola Horlick outlines the case for investment in agriculture, with Brazil in particular being ripe for development

NEW ZEALAND/UK - KiwiSaver and Personal Accounts should not be taken as like-to-like schemes when drawing comparisons of success, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI).

CANADA/TURKEY - AEGON Canada's investment accounting employees are to join RBC Dexia in Toronto, as part of strategic alliance between the two firms.

GLOBAL - The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has announced plans to publish a guide to 'sound practices' for the global fund of hedge fund (FoHF) community.

GLOBAL - Russell has confirmed it is to lose two senior staff.

Quantitative managers have admitted they are likely to become less transparent, following lessons learnt from the credit crisis.

Pension funds' allocation to European private equity funds dropped by more than 50% year on year in 2007, data by the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has shown.

GLOBAL - Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has launched an equity fund focused on the agricultural sector.

US/UK - CalPERS and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) have lost senior staff.

GLOBAL - HSBC Global Asset Management has launched a New Frontiers fund to institutional investors.