Regions

EUROPE - The European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) has appointed Matti Leppälä to succeed Chris Verhaegen as secretary general.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven.

EUROPE - EU rules on the establishment of cross border pensions must be simplified, Aon Hewitt believes.

How a 'bigger and better' IORP directive could pan out

UK/EUROPE - The £4bn ($6.6bn) Merseyside Pension Fund has made an infrastructure allocation to AMP Capital's Strategic Infrastructure Trust of Europe.

Russell Investments; OPERS; BNY Mellon Asset Management; Mercer; Baring Asset Management; The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association; Sciens Fund of Funds Management Holdings

US/GLOBAL - International equity was one of the top performing asset classes over the second quarter of 2011 and the year as a whole, with seven of the top ten international equity products returning more than 50% for the year, research by Informa Investment...

ASIA - ING Investment Management Asia's CIO believes the yuan will become a reserve currency within the next two years driven by the ongoing debt problems in Europe and the US.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven.

GLOBAL - America's index of leading stocks closed lower last night, amid a global sell-off sparked by another round of weak economic data and increased fear about the eurozone debt crisis, while the FTSE 100 dropped sharply on opening today.