Regions

EUROPE - EU moves to give agency workers equal employment and pension rights have been backed by the European Parliament.

GLOBAL - Investors continue to pour capital into exchange traded funds.

UK/EUROPE - Investment Property Databank is to publish two directories on UK and European property investment funds in conjunction with Oxford Property Consultants.

GLOBAL - LaSalle Investment Management has completed fundraising for its Asia Recovery Fund.

UK/EUROPE - Pension funds and other institutional investors have poured assets into Barclays Global Investors' European Equity Market Neutral Fund.

GLOBAL - NeoNet, the international agency broker has been selected by management software provider Eze Castle Software to offer its clients trading access to European stock exchanges.

EUROPE - European buyout firms remain confident of matching past returns despite increasingly tough exit conditions and intense competition from the US.

EUROPE - NASDAQ has unveiled a European version of its US QQQ exchange traded fund.

GLOBAL (ex-US) - Pension funds and other institutional investors outside of the US can now have access to four new active strategies from Denver-based Janus International.

EUROPE - A new report has called for greater transparency in custodian contracts.