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Infrastructure is becoming increasingly popular with pension funds seeking long duration, reliable cash flow and inflation protection. Chris Panteli finds out more about the asset class

SWEDEN Pension fund provider Första AP-fonden (AP1) has appointed J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services as sole provider of global custody services.

NETHERLANDS - Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Groothandel in Levensmiddelen (Bpf GIL) has hired J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services as global custodian for its €500m ($700.6m) scheme.

Charlotte Moore canvasses opinion on diversified growth funds and other ways of adding alpha

US - J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has launched an automated platform for daily cash allocation and rebalancing of target date funds.

Lincolnshire County Council pension fund has re-appointed J.P. Morgan as its custodian and given the firm additional responsibility to undertake accounting and performance measurement services.

GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

Kentucky Retirement System, Mercer, PensionsFirst, Towers Watson, Northern Trust, J.P. Morgan

US - J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has been selected by the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) to provide custody and securities services for the State's $10.5bn in assets.

Professional Pensions assembled a panel of three industry experts to talk about inflation risk, how it would affect schemes and what funds can do to address this.