Regions

GLOBAL - BlueBay Asset Management, the specialist fixed income credit manager, has opened its New York office, Global Pensions has learnt.

EUROPE - Stéphane Monier is to become chief investment officer of Fortis Investments' Paris-based Euro Fixed Income investment centre.

GLOBAL - The market concentration of dominant pension funds, combined with the "myopic" activities of delegated portfolio managers fuels the risk of herding behaviour, the European Central Bank (ECB) has claimed.

GLOBAL - The Goldman Sachs-led consortium bidding for the British Airports Authority (BAA), which includes two Canadian pension fund giants, could signify the start of a global trend in which investment banks seek to form infrastructure tie-ups with pension...

GLOBAL - Fidelity International has lost its head of institutional fixed income and business development for Europe, Achim Gloger, after he joined Abbey last week.

GLOBAL - Atlantis Investment Management founder and chief executive Peter Irving has been killed in a boating accident, the company announced yesterday.

GLOBAL - More than one in six manager searches globally relate to alternative mandates, according to Mercer Investment Consulting (Mercer IC).

EUROPE - Watson Wyatt's European head of investment consulting, Kevin Carter, is to retire from Watson Wyatt later this year after taking over the post from Nick Watts in July last year.

GLOBAL - The £2bn Leicestershire County Council Pension Fund has appointed three new currency briefs together worth £1.36bn, and a £270m global equity mandate.

GLOBAL - The asset management arm of Credit Suisse has reported net revenue growth of 23% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2005.