Regions

UK/EUROPE - Fidelity Investments, part of the world's largest independent fund management organisation, has appointed Martin Hall as executive director, fixed income.

GLOBAL - Deutsche Bank is upbeat on its prospects for 2002, claiming that it expects to see a US led economic recovery spreading throughout Europe and the rest of the world from the third quarter onwards, boosting its investment banking, corporate investments...

EUROPE - State Street has been appointed to provide a full range of investor services to Credit Suisse Funds and ING Funds, mandates totalling $26bn in assets.

EUROPE - William M Mercer has expanded its global presence through an exclusive strategic alliance agreement with ConsulTeam, a Bulgarian human resources consultancy.

EUROPE- All European companies will have to report to International Accounting Standards from 2005.

EUROPE - SEI Investments has appointed Alejandro Kerschen as managing director of European partnerships, responsible for SEI's third party distribution business in Europe.

GLOBAL - Reech Capital has appointed Mark Weller to the newly created position of head of international hedge fund sales.

GLOBAL - Amy Butte is to join CSFB's Financial Services Division as chief strategist and chief financial officer.

EUROPE - Pan-European exchange, virt-x, is to launch a new market segment for Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) on May 6.

GLOBAL - Swiss group Zurich Financial Services confirmed "disappointing" profits for 2001 following the release of detailed figures. The firm made an IAS (International Accounting Standard) loss of $387m. Normalised net income fell 83% from $2,067m to...