Regions

UK/EU - Law firm Wragge & Co is holding a seminar on the implications of EU legislation on UK pensions at its Birmingham offices on December 11.

GLOBAL - Continued equity market weakness has wiped out the pension surplus of the S&P500.

GLOBAL - Socially responsible (SRI) or sustainable investing is proving robust despite current market conditions if figures from the US are anything to go by.

GLOBAL - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management has reaffirmed its commitment to building a robust single hedge fund platform with a senior hire.

THE NETHERLANDS - Aegon has appointed Charles Henderson as vice-president of corporate responsibility.

GLOBAL - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange's adoption of the FTSE index system in June 2002 appears to have solved one problem, but created another.

ASIA/PACIFIC - It is only relatively recently that social security reform has emerged as an important public policy concern in many countries in Asia and the Pacific, according to Professor Mukul Asher of the National University of Singapore in a new...

SOUTH AFRICA - Some 46% of South African organisations questioned in a recent survey have no official Aids policy, even though Aids is widely expected to have a serious impact on pensions. The Sanlam Employee Benefits 11th Biennial Survey of Retirement...

SOUTH AFRICA - Global financial services company Alexander Forbes has posted in interim profits from its European operation of Rand284m (£18m) - up 22% on last year.

EUROPE - European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) vice chairman Jaap Maassen has refuted media reports that the EFRP is dissatisfied with the proposal for the European pension funds directive.