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GERMANY - Germany is on the brink of slipping into a 1930s-style recession and investors should approach the market with caution, State Street Global Advisors warns.

UK/GERMANY - An MP has attacked German airline Lufthansa for failing to protect the interests of longstanding British workers who face massive cuts in their pension entitlements.

GERMANY - German stock market NASDAQ Deutschland has started trading.

GERMANY - Germany has done a U turn on its discriminatory tax levies on foreign investment funds.

GERMANY - Allianz Dresdner Asset Management has launched a new product concept, backed up with a survey of the European pension market that predicts it will grow by E510bn by 2010.

GERMANY - The taxation of German social security and public sector pensions will be harmonised from 2005, as a result of government adoption of the findings of the long awaited Ruerup Commission report on the taxation of German pensions.

SWITZERLAND - Active currency overlay strategy has received a resounding thumbs down from one leading pension fund consultant.

GERMANY - Leica Microsystems, a German manufacturer of microscopes and optical systems, has outsourced the management of its company pension scheme to Invesco Retirement.

GERMANY - JPMorgan Investor Services has announced a record year for sales in Germany, doubling its assets under custody in 2002.

SWITZERLAND - The Swiss social security compensation fund AHV/AVS is changing direction to a more international slant, in both its real estate and bond portfolios.