Regions

Eaton Vance, the Boston-based asset manager, has acquired Fox Asset Management in a $92m deal, subject to regulatory approval.

State Street Corporation has launched the Multi-Bank Global Trading Support Services (Multi-Bank GTSS), an online confirmation matching service.

Commerzbank - Germany's third largest bank - is to overhaul its asset management business by year end.

Style Research, the London-based company which provides Style-based equity research and portfolio analysis services, has expanded into North America and appointed Bernie Nelson as business director of its new office.

Global fund managers Frank Russell Company (FRIC) has hired Suffolk Capital Management to handle parts of five US small cap growth funds.

EU fixed term work legislation - which the government has implicitly endorsed - will have a major impact on UK stakeholder schemes, leading pension lawyers warn.

Gissings, one of the UK's leading employee benefit advisory firms, has appointed Chris Massey as divisional director.

Cross-border property investment is set to rise and should ride out economic downturns as investments turn defensive, according to new research.

THE £7bn HSBC Bank Pension Scheme is setting up a stakeholder scheme for the bank's 2500 part-time and temporary staff.

F&C Management has won a £90m bond mandate from the pension fund of Octel, the petroleum additives and speciality chemicals company.