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GLOBAL - New Year trading will bring some joy for fund managers, asset manager Henderson Global Investors predicts.

GLOBAL - JPMorgan Investor Services says it has successfully converted several prominent asset managers to the new Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) messaging standards as of November, 2001.

GLOBAL - Fund manager Legal & General Investment Management has predicted comparatively bullish growth in next year's UK equity markets against its peers.

GLOBAL - State Street has named Ronald Logue, currently vice chairman, chief operating officer, and director, as president of the company. Logue will also continue to serve as chief operating officer and director.

GLOBAL - Industry experts are divided on the extent to which the amount of assets which a fund manager has under management affects efficiency and performance within the house.

GLOBAL - Scottish Widows' latest tie up with Frank Russell, to offer a ‘best of breed' multi-manager investment programme to UK personal investors, is the latest in a slow trend towards fund management houses blurring the distinctions between their institutional...

GLOBAL - Since joining Morley Fund Management in January 2001, Morley's eight-strong SRI team of fund managers and analysts has made a considerable impact on the market, according to the fund manager.

GLOBAL - Phillip Colebatch, CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management, has stepped down after 17 years with the Swiss financial giant.

GLOBAL - Goldman Sachs and Frank Russell have announced the publication of their fifth global report on alternative investing by tax-exempt public and corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations in North America, Continental Europe, the UK, Australia...

GLOBAL - Emerging markets topped the list of hedge fund performance in the latest figures from the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index.