Regions

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds invest about US$1trn in international equity, less than half the amount of assets under management at the ten largest sovereign wealth funds, a new report found.

GLOBAL - Inflation is unlikely to be a threat in the short term due to the current levels of economic growth and the government policies implemented around the world, the latest global economic research by Baring Asset Management (BAM) has revealed.

US - New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will have some company as he leads the state's US$116bn pension fund if a new legislation calling for the abolition of the single-trustee model is passed.

EUROPE - T. Rowe Price has launched its first global fixed income absolute return strategy.

GLOBAL - The secondary private equity market could parallel the buy out bubble of 2007, one consultant warned.

GLOBAL - Nearly 70% of all asset management merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter were a result of banks shedding their asset management arms, data by Jefferies Putnam Lovell showed.

ASIA - Asian institutional investors have been questioning the use of external managers in their US$5trn pots after their internal portfolios largely outperformed those of outside managers over the past year.

GLOBAL - Sponsor defined contribution (DC) retirement plans are widely adopting automatic enrollment together with other automatic features designed to boost employee participation and limit the number of decisions employees need to make, a survey by...

UK/US - Local authority pension schemes could be losing out on £125m (US$198.9m) by failing to participate in US class action lawsuits, research by Goal Group revealed.

Following a difficult 12 months Raquel Pichardo-Allison looks at the differing strategies corporate and public funds in the US have developed to survive the credit crunch