Regions

GLOBAL - Man Investment Products has launched a new capital guaranteed structured product, Man Multi-Strategy Series 4.

EUROPE - European equity markets have experienced their worst monthly performance since the market crash of 1987.

GLOBAL - Global cross-border property investment is set to climb over the next 5 years, with the UK market heading investors' shopping lists.

THE NETHERLANDS - Dutch companies could be pumping a combined E24bn a year into their pension funds following tough new rules from the Dutch pension regulator, the PVK.

GLOBAL - Loyalis, the financial services subsidiary of Dutch superfund ABP, is to launch a new SRI fund which will be open to pension funds worldwide.

EUROPE - UK fund manager Hermes boasts another three leading pension funds to back its activist fund which targets European stock market laggards.

EUROPE - New research into the European private equity market suggests that institutional investors could be bailing out of the sector.

GLOBAL - The Bank of New York is to acquire alternative investment specialist International Fund Administration for an undisclosed sum.

GLOBAL - The number of multinationals taking a global approach to managing their pension fund assets has climbed to 84% from 50% since 2000 in a bid to reduce risk.

EUROPE - The European Central Bank has come under fire for its handling of the recent economic slump in the eurozone.