Regions

EMERGING MARKETS - Confidence in emerging markets has soared following a strong performance in the asset class since the beginning of this year.

B&W bond reissuance

GLOBAL - Emerging markets manager Fabien Pictet & Partners has grown its assets under management by $100m since the start of this year.

UK/EU - Consultants are urging the government to spell out the impact new EU employment laws will have on firms with closed final salary schemes.

GLOBAL - Michael Leigh, chief executive officer at the London office of Tactical Global Management (TGM), the specialist global macro, currency and overlay manager, has been made redundant as part of a senior management structure.

EUROPE - Eurochambres, the Brussels-based Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has reappointed its current president Christoph Leitl for a further two years.

EUROPE - Europe will attract the lion's share of global cross-border property investment over the next three years, new research predicts.

Trust appoints manager

LITHUANIA - Medicinos Banko Investiciju Valdymas (MBIV), the investment arm of Medicinos Bankas, one of the smallest Lithuania's commercial banks, has entered the pension fund arena, writes the Baltic News Service.

EUROPE - Credit Suisse First Boston has streamlined its European pensions consulting activity to form a new European Pensions Advisory Group. The group, which will be co-headed by CSFB managing directors Giles Keating and Simon Ford, will advise both...