Regions

The $89bn New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) has given British private equity firm Cinven $131m (EUR150) to put towards its latest European buyout fund.

The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to start its planned review of regulatory requirements on the soft commission practices of authorised financial services firms.

AltAssets, the online private equity news and research service, is to launch the first ever online listing of private equity and venture capital funds being raised around the world.

Euraplan, the UK pension fund accounting and monitoring service, has launched a new system delivering investment reporting to larger schemes with £750m or more.

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has been acquired by a group of investors that includes ISS' main rival, The Proxy Monitor (TPM).

Global firm Watson Wyatt has appointed Robert Wesselkamper as practice leader for international consulting, based in Chicago.

The Bank of New York (BoNY) has acquired a 4.9% stake in Dutch-based custodian Kas-Associatie for investment purposes. Kas-Associatie provides securities custody services and settlement and administration of securities and derivatives transactions and...

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and Confederation of British Industry (CBI) have welcomed proposals from the Company Law Review steering committee's final report on the modernisation of UK company law.

Capita Hartshead has been appointed to provide pensions administration to the UK's newly-formed Twyford Bathrooms Pension Scheme.

UBS in Switzerland expects its private equity business UBS Capital to record a pre-tax loss for the second, third and fourth quarters combined of CHF350m (£142,5m) to CHF400m (£163m).