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GLOBAL - The number of people aged over sixty is set to double by 2050, according to new figures from the United Nations. The UN went on to identify funding retirement as a key concern.

GLOBAL - Expatriate employees are now starting to feel the brunt of the shift from final salary pension schemes, according to a new survey by consultants, William M Mercer.

DENMARK - Denmark's DKr15bn Industriens Pensionsforsikring is to press ahead with the beefing of its emerging markets portfolio, despite the recent partial pullout from the sector by the $151bn California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)....

GLOBAL - SEI Investments, the global provider of asset management and investment technology solutions, says it finished 2001 with new mandates totalling $2.58bn in institutional assets. The assets came from 52 new clients and from existing institutional...

GLOBAL - IFAs need not fear the internet cutting into their business, Dr Sandy Nairn, CIO of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, has concluded in a new book.

UK - Strong growth in private equity over the next few years is predicted by two new reports.

GLOBAL - The INPRS, a global network of pensions regulators and supervisors which comprises regulatory and supervisory authorities from 64 countries and 12 international organisations, has launched a new website at www.inprs.org.

EUROPE - Resolution Property has secured a further £140m of backing from its long term institutional backer Warburg Pincus to fund property investments of up to £700m in the UK and mainland Europe.

GLOBAL - The NAPF has called on UK pension funds to review the safety of its emerging markets investments, after the world's largest pension fund pulled out of a raft of developing countries.

EUROPE - The European Commission met again this week, this time to consider political obstacles in the way of financial integration, including pension reform.