Regions

GLOBAL - The traditional view of emerging markets is of volatility, risk, instability, and illiquidity. But it make be time to revise this view. Christine Senior takes a closer look at some emerging market highlights.

GLOBAL - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has launched four enhanced equity index pooled strategies for UK clients.

GLOBAL - Schroder Investment Management has predicted war with Iraq is 80% likely, adding "the question mark still remains over participants, strategy and timing."

GLOBAL - Dramatic changes to the yield curves of government bonds are occurring as part of a "global phenomenon", according to bond investors who generally attribute the steepening of the curves to increased government borrowing and interest rate cuts....

EUROPE - Total European property investment fell only 1% last year compared to 2001 despite a 30% drop in the leasing market, figures from Jones Lang LaSalle show.

EUROPE - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has told some of Europe's leading companies to buck-up pension fund deficits or face being downgraded.

GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors has topped the 2002 European (ex-UK) ranking of recorded pension fund mandate wins with E2bn of new business gained throughout the year.

GLOBAL - Standard & Poor's real-time credit ratings and research service, CreditWire, will be now available via Reuters.

LUXEMBOURG - The Luxembourg House of Parliament has voted in favour of two European directives regarding undertakings for collective investment adopted by the European Parliament and the EU Council on 21 January 2002.

EUROPE - Spanish consulting firm Novaster has chosen Frank Russell as its ‘preferred provider' of multi-manager products in a move that brings the conflict of interest debate firmly onto continental Europe.