Regions

ASIA - Northern Trust Global Investments is embarking on a push to secure Asia as a key region for securities lending business growth.

GLOBAL - Emerging markets are the top destination for equity flows, according to the latest research from State Street.

GLOBAL - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), Dutch pension fund ABP and the UK's Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) have today published a report calling on investors and companies to adapt to ensure the pharmaceutical sector remains...

EUROPE - The Swiss Federal Council has made some last minute changes to regulations governing the second phase of the BVG pension reform on partial liquidation, ruling thatthe claim on surplus can now be collective as well as individual.

EUROPE - AXA Investment Managers' will transfer more than 300 employees and over 1500 portfolios worth e300bn to State Street as part of a recently completed outsourcing agreement.

EUROPE - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has decided to make changes to its proposal on group plans issued earlier this year.

EUROPE - F Asset Management ("F") has launched a e50m Euro inflation linked bond fund in response to pension funds' "increasing demand for real returns".

EUROPE - Almost half of companies (47%) lack the experience to deal with the new pension expense accounting standard IAS19, a new survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting has found.

EUROPE - Technology-based equity trading services group ITG Europe is negotiating on the acquisition of rival E-Crossnet (EXN).

EUROPE - European institutions investing in fixed income could soon find themselves squeezed between the need to increase returns and efforts by financial regulators to improve transparency and impose stricter standards for best execution, Greenwich Associates...