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UK - The Pensions Protection Fund has widened its selection of transition managers by recruiting nine firms to its panel, but missing from the list was incumbent State Street who the PPF said did not re-bid.

The Pension Protection Fund has widened its selection of transition managers by recruiting nine firms to its panel.

EUROPE - iShares has launched a Europe-wide initiative to help professional investors identify structural risks and carry out due diligence on ETPs.

KPMG snags Mercer partner, Mercer poaches from NEST, BlackRock, BlueBay, ICI, Impax, Man Group, Aviva, Barings

GLOBAL - JLT Investment Solutions, New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Board, AXA Investment Managers, BlackRock, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, F&C Investments, RPMI, Oddo Asset Management

US/ASIA - BlackRock has appointed ING Investment Management's Joel Kim as head of Asia-Pacific fixed income.

BlackRock has hired Simon Beresford and Neil Purvis as part of its to push to be "provider of choice" in the bundled defined contribution market.

GLOBAL: UN Joint Staff Pension Fund; Fidelity; SGSS;F&C; Alliance Bernstein; PBGC; BlackRock; Wurts & Associates; Kas Bank

BlackRock, Texas TRS, Pictet, ABP, New York CRF, Hermes BPK, Dalton Strategic Partnership

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