Regions

UK/EUROPE - Pensions funds will shortly have the opportunity to invest in another securitisation by a football club.

GLOBAL - Jones Lang LaSalle has announced the appointment of James Jasionowski to the new position of global director of tax. He reports to Lauralee Martin, the firm's chief financial officer.

EUROPE - Luxembourg has continued to grow as Europe's largest collective funds centre over the course of 2001 both by number of funds and total assets, new figures show.

EUROPE - The cross-border life insurance and employee benefits consultancy team of Luxembourg-based JBI Associates has joined Deloitte & Touche.

EUROPE - AXA Investment Managers has hired Nicolas Moreau as chief executive.

UK/GLOBAL - As part of its refocusing plans, London-based Rothschild Asset Management is to hive off its Australian arm.

EUROPE - Alternative investment specialist FIM has appointed a new chief operating officer in a bid to beef up its institutional fund of funds business across Europe.

GLOBAL - The growing dominance of equity holdings by institutional investors, both domestic and international, is casting a sharp focus on their activities and owners and monitors of firms, according to a pensions academic in a new paper.

EUROPE - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) wants standards in the European debt capital market improved.

EUROPE - European Actuarial Consulting Services (EURACS) has appointed Danny Wilding, of UK member firm Barnett Waddingham, to replace chairman Dominique Piermay of Fixage in France.