Regions

GLOBAL - Europe is still more attractive for investors than the US and Japan, despite a recent growth lag, according to the latest outlook from Pictet Asset Management.

UK/EUROPE - The International Association of Investment Management Sales Executives has appointed GR Communications as its administrator.

GLOBAL - Hedge funds across all strategies rose by an average of just 0.08% in July amid tough conditions.

GLOBAL - Investors are being urged to take advantage of the Japanese equity market, which is being flooded with stocks following a "pension fund share sell-off".

GLOBAL - Schemes are being urged to take advantage of the Japanese equity market, which is being flooded with stocks following a "pension fund share sell-off".

GLOBAL - Goldman Sachs Asset Management managing director Bob Litterman has written a book which aims to explain modern investment theory to schemes and other investors.

GLOBAL - Car giant Ford is injecting $700m (£436m/e622m) into its overseas pension funds.

GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors is targeting US$1bn of investor capital with two new global currency hedge funds.

GLOBAL - Most institutional fund managers worldwide still want companies to use cashflow to rebuild balance sheets, including plugging pension fund deficits, rather than increasing capital spending.

EUROPE - Russia is a good investment bet regardless of the political rumblings causing instability in its lucrative extractives sector, Credit Suisse Asset Management claims.