State Street

US - State Street Global Advisors has named Alistair Lowe as its new global equity chief investment officer replacing Arlene Rockefeller who is retiring after nearly three decades at the firm.

The pensions industry in Australia eagerly awaits the publication of the Cooper Review. Rachel Alembakis looks at the potential consequences

GLOBAL - Private equity funds managed to post positive returns of 15% for 2009 despite a slow start to the year, data from State Street revealed.

ITALY - The €5.2bn (US$6.4bn) Fondo Cometa has hired nine managers and completed the renewal of mandates for its Monetario Plus, Reddito and Crescita sub-funds due to expire this year.

ITALY - State Street Corp. has completed its €1.28bn (US$1.6bn) cash purchase of Intesa Sanpaolo's Securities Services business (ISPSS), including the firm's custody and fund administration units.

GLOBAL - Institutional investors are increasingly investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), a report by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) revealed.

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

SWITZERLAND - Banking group SYZ is set to acquire State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) institutional Swiss fixed income activities.

UK/US - State Street Corp. has taken a minority stake in PensionsFirst Analytics, which offers a web tool that can provide actuarial valuations on a daily basis, and has plans to take the London-based firm global.

State Street Corp. has taken a minority stake in PensionsFirst Analytics, which offers a web tool that can provide actuarial valuations on a daily basis, and has plans to take the London-based firm global.