Regions

GLOBAL - Investor confidence fell 1.9 points in October, State Street research shows.

EUROPE: The Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive is set to be voted into law within the next two weeks after negotiators agreed the final text of the rules.

EUROPE - The investments, pensions and securities market is the least trusted by UK consumers, and considered as honest as the second-hand car industry by Europe.

GLOBAL - Private equity funds posted a return of just 0.65% in the three months to the end of June this year, State Street research reveals.

GLOBAL - Overlay Asset Management and BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking have teamed up to launch an index in a bid to help schemes preserve the purchasing power of currency allocations.

UBS; Schroders; BNP Paribas Investment Partners; Dalriada Trustees; Vebnet; J O Hambro Investment Management

GLOBAL - World population growth, climate change and other issues are transforming sustainability into a key issue for institutional investors, research by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) suggests.

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US - The New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF) has committed $300m to US private equity firm Blackstone.

US - CIM Group, a Los Angeles real- estate investment manager, agreed to cut fees it charges the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the biggest U.S. government pension, by $50m, the fund said.