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I'm writing this month's piece on the eve of the Global Pensions Awards 2010. Tomorrow night's events are the culmination of months of work, not only from the judges and pension funds who took the time to nominate their providers, but from the asset managers...

New regulations allow Mexican pension funds access to a broader investment pool, as Giovanni Legorano reports

US - Janine Guillot, a former managing director at Barclays Global Investors, has joined the California Public Employees' Retirement System as chief operating investment officer, the pension fund said.

US - The Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (Illinois TRS) has terminated BlackRock from a US$643.5m domestic enhanced equity mandate for poor performance and hired a slew of other managers.

What is fiduciary management?

The spring thaw is imminent, and after the freezing winter shocks of debt, debt and a little more debt, there are signs that investor risk appetite is warming up again. A frequently heard phrase is "You can't sit in cash forever, you have to do something."...

GLOBAL - Despite closure after closure of defined benefit pension funds around the world, some investment managers think hybrid versions of these schemes will continue to emerge.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the causes of the current rise in inflation and asks how long it might be expected to continue and what trustees can do to protect their funds from the extra liability.

After a tumultuous decade in investment, Raquel Pichardo-Allison and Giovanni Legorano speak to industry experts about what the next 10 years hold for investment practices

Institutional investors flooded into commodities last year as prices soared. Industry experts say the asset class' popularity isn't likely to wane in 2010, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports