Regions

GLOBAL - Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is looking to bridge the "information gap" after research showed that global fund managers could do more to improve confidence among analysts and investors.

GLOBAL - Emerging markets continue to prove resilient in the face of general market malaise despite bearishness from fund managers, according to ratings agency, Standard & Poor's (S&P).

GLOBAL - The world's largest custodian bank, Bank of New York (BoNY), has launched PrivateAnalyst, a monitoring service for private equity, venture capital, and real estate investments.

GLOBAL - Company audits are being compromised by global financial services firms which offer a wide range of services, the UK's National Association of Pension Funds claims.

UK/GLOBAL - Tillinghast-Towers Perrin has joined forces with Australian-based Classic Solutions to provide financial modelling software.

UK/EUROPE - The UK has more pension assets than the rest of its European Union partners put together, a worldwide pensions study shows.

UK/EUROPE - Fund managers are having to rethink their business strategies in the face of investor dissatisfaction and falling markets, a KPMG survey reveals.

GLOBAL - Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has launched a new Web-based product giving institutions real-time corporate information that could impact on their portfolios.

GLOBAL - Man Group (Man), the world's largest investment manager by assets, boasted quarter-on-quarter growth in funds under management.

UK/EUROPE - Pension funds and insurance companies are joining forces to oppose a European directive that would curtail shareholder voting rights.