Regions

EUROPE - Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based independent investment manager, has expanded its Sicav range in a bid to lure more European institutional investors.

GLOBAL - Citisoft, the investment management consultancy, has launched a new risk and performance service to help fund managers get more value from their investments.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors are being urged to snap up emerging market equities despite heightened risks and dwindling returns.

AUSTRALASIA - Financial services firm Cogent has hired Gail Burke as head of Cogent, Australasia.

EUROPE - Standard Life has launched what it says is a low risk bond fund triggered by continued investor demand for credit.

EUROPE - Euronext.liffe, the derivatives arm of pan-European index provider Euronext, is to offer a new tradable suite of pan-European indices through global index provider, FTSE.

EUROPE - Platinum Capital Management has appointed Reinhard Nigl as European business development director.

EUROPE - Institutions helped to fuel record investment in Europe's smaller property markets in 2002.

GLOBAL - State Street Corporation has become the latest global custodian to provide qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) access to China's US$500bn A-share market.

GLOBAL - Financial services giant State Street is set to make 1800 staff redundant worldwide in a bid to cut costs across the group.