Regions

EUROPE - European markets rallied this morning on news the European Union will support troubled Greece if it introduces additional spending cuts and a privatisation programme.

EUROPE - Lobbying by pension funds for independent valuation of hedge funds has fuelled a hiring spree for back office staff, research suggests.

ASIA - Asian infrastructure represents one of the best routes to capturing growth in the region's buoyant economies, J.P. Morgan Asset Management believes.

EUROPE: Announcing a haircut on Greek bond holdings would help restore a positive mood to bond markets, which have largely priced in such a move, said DWS Investments' CIO Asoka Wöhrmann.

GLOBAL - Institutional investor interest in private equity secondaries market has reached "unprecedented" levels", research by Coller Capital, conducted in conjunction with IE Consulting, shows.

EUROPE - The first occupational pensions case to be considered by the Supreme Court, Bridge Trustees v Yates, will begin today.

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GLOBAL - More new hedge funds launched in the first quarter of 2011 than any time since 2007, fuelled by a tailwind of industry assets breaching $2trn for the first time, research shows.

GLOBAL - Pension funds will continue to shift away from equities to bonds as a result of the latest changes to International Accounting Standards, Mercer says.

EUROPE - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has elected Claude Kremer as president for a two-year term.