Regions

EUROPE - Unigestion has hired Michael Larsen to head its institutional sales and marketing activities as part of a push to strengthen its presence in the European asset management market.

GLOBAL - The Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory Group, a global hedge fund investment consulting firm, has announced that hedge funds produced a positive return of +2.55% in November, according to the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index.

Global Pensions' editor Luke Clancy looks back at the investment predictions made this time last year.

GLOBAL - Pension funds are exposed to more risks now than at any point in the last 30 years, according to Watson Wyatt's latest Global Investment Review 2003.

EUROPE/UK - The European Sustainable Research Investment Forum is developing an accreditation standard for socially responsible investment funds.

GLOBAL - Fund managers are warning pension funds that 2003 will be another poor year, with the US and UK economies both set to struggle.

GLOBAL - Mellon Financial Corporation has announced several senior appointments.

US - Coller Capital has announced a final closing at US$2.5bn for Coller International Partners IV LP, the largest-ever private equity secondaries fund.

EUROPE - The German government should review the statutory retirement age increases and ensure that the phasing out of early retirement programmes does indeed raise the effective age of retirement, according to a new country report by the Organisation...

THE NETHERLANDS - The management of PGGM, the Dutch pension fund for the healthcare and social sector, has finalised the pension contributions for 2003.