Regions

GLOBAL - Global ageing will hit nations including Germany, Japan and Italy so hard that they will be left with approximately one pensioner per worker by 2040, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors is warning that the US-led global recovery could cause long term damage to the well-being of the Japanese economy.

UK/EUROPE - Northern Trust Global Investments (Europe) (NTGIE) has appointed Andrew Edgington as director of product management and development.

EUROPE - Fidelity Investments is rolling out its pooled Select Global Fund across Continental Europe this year.

EUROPE - Controversial European Union proposals which would limit how much pension funds could invest in high-risk assets are expected to fail.

UK/EUROPE - Big business has scorned Tony Blair's call for green reporting, despite yesterday's launch of a new global standard for social and environmental accounting, according Friends of the Earth (FoE).

EUROPE - Business confidence throughout Europe has continued its steady climb and is now back up to pre-September 11 levels, according to new figures from the European Commission (EC).

EUROPE - EU proposals to strengthen agency workers' pay and employment rights could mean pension rights for temporary workers, lawyers warn.

GLOBAL - The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) may investigate Aon Consulting's manager-of-manager offering as a direct result of pressure from IPN's sister publication Global Pensions.

RUSSIA - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is targeting the issue of corporate governance in Russia and its former states.