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CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE - Institutional investor appetite for Central and Eastern European stocks had returned in the second half of 2009 after a loss of appetite during the financial crisis, according to a study, but the verdict is still out for 2010....

US - BlackRock Inc. and the largest US business lobby groups are fighting to strike a provision in the regulatory-overhaul legislation that they say could harm millions of investors in retirement plans and pension funds.

Sebastian Cheek reports on how investment strategy design is changing to react to the rapid expansion of the DC asset pool

GLOBAL - Institutional investors are showing increasing interest in active strategies following a first quarter of 2010 devoted to reassessing their asset allocations, BlackRock chairman and chief executive Laurence Fink said.

ITALY ¬- Italian pension funds have been increasingly looking at fiduciary management solutions in the first quarter of this year, BlackRock head of Italian institutional business Alberto Salato said.

Chile's regulator has made it easier for the country to invest its US$114bn in pension assets outside its home country. Rodrigo Amaral reports

With equities rebounding from their post credit crunch lows, Alison Swersky examines how managers have responded and what they believe the future holds

Fiduciary manager MN Services has appointed Stephanie Limond as account manager in its UK team.

GLOBAL - Pension funds are missing out on the benefits of using exchange traded funds within their securities lending programmes, industry experts said.

US - BlackRock's head of US defined contribution business Kristi Mitchem will leave the firm to pursue other opportunities.