Regions

EMERGING EUROPE - Successful institutional global equity managers have been ploughing into key emerging markets including a number of European states. According to US-headquartered InterSec Research, managers that are doing well year-to-date have avoided...

EUROPE - Alia Baig has been appointed to head the European equity team at Legal & General.

GLOBAL - Treasury management systems usage by corporate and financial institutions around the world appeared to plateau at the end of 2002, according to research by Greenwich Associates.

GLOBAL - "Cheap" Japanese equities are set to outperform over the next three years, fund managers believe.

EUROPE - Guidelines for socially responsible investment funds have been set out by the European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum.

EUROPE - Investors should exercise caution over the prospects for European equities in the near-term, despite a partial recovery from March lows.

EUROPE - F&C Management is poised to award Mellon Global Securities Services the back office administration of its institutional business, based in London.

GLOBAL - Man Group has raised a record £449m from a new hedge fund.

Northern Trust is global custodian to AMF Pension

EUROPE - BNP Paribas Asset Management is targeting European institutional investors with two new Dublin-domiciled single strategy hedge funds.