Here they are - the winners of the Global Pensions Awards 2011.
US - Pacific Investment Management Co. and Cutwater Asset Management Corp. are advising investors that record fund withdrawals amid projections of widespread municipal defaults have created a buying opportunity.
US - PIMCO's co-CIO Bill Gross has hit out at US policymakers for introducing "devilish policy tools" to rebalance US debt, effectively "robbing savers".
GERMANY - Allianz Global Investors chief executive officer (CEO) Joachim Faber has announced his intention to retire at the end of the year.
EUROPE - Pimco, the world's largest bond fund manager, has called on Greece, Ireland and Portugal to step outside the eurozone temporarily and restructure their debts unless the currency bloc agrees to a radical change of course.
US - PIMCO's co-CIO Bill Gross has poured $4.4m of his own money into five municipal bond funds run by the group in anticipation of a rally, Bloomberg reports.
EUROPE - PIMCO is partnering with exchange-traded product provider Source to offer fixed income ETFs in Europe, marking PIMCO's entry into the European ETF market.
PIMCO; Russell Investments; AXA Investment Managers; State Street Global Advisors; PensionsFirst; Mercer; Standard Life Investments
This month the panellists discuss allocation trends towards fixed income and corporate bonds, and hidden problems with hybrid corporate bonds
Pension funds are looking for more control over how their fixed income benchmarks are constructed, as Raquel Pichardo-Allison reports