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GLOBAL - An influx of sophisticated products has blown the choice wide open for pension funds investing in emerging markets.

GLOBAL - Investor confidence rose 3.5 points last month to a global average of 73.0, according to the State Street Global Investor Confidence Index.

GLOBAL - Pension funds have been taking positive shareholder action to address the issue of disclosure over climate change and socially responsible investing.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors launched a climate change action plan at a summit held at the UN yesterday to boost investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies.

GLOBAL - ABP and TIAA-CREF are among the investors to commit US$125m to Catalyst Microfinance Investors (CMI), in a deal claimed to be the largest ever collective equity capital commitment to microfinance.

GLOBAL - Worthwhile investment opportunities for pension funds in certain high quality mortgage backed securities (MBS) products could be being overlooked due to investor aversion to sub-prime MBS, experts have claimed.

GLOBAL - The United Nations Foundation and Ceres are to host hundreds of global institutional investors this week in a discussion aimed at moving forward the climate risk agenda.

GLOBAL - Pension funds with in-house investment management may have suffered more during recent market disarray than those schemes using external managers, research by leading industry figures has suggested.

GLOBAL - Watson Wyatt Worldwide vice president and chief financial officer Carl Mautz has stepped down as the group announces strong growth in the second quarter.

It has been a more than two years since the IORP Directive was due to be enacted by each of the member states. What has transpired since then? Are pan-European pensions now feasible? Frances Phillips Taft provides an overview of crossborder pension development...