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Janus Capital has launched its emerging markets strategy, using the firm's bottom-up fundamental stock picking approach to invest in equities around the world.

Majedie Asset Management has launched a global equity fund for institutional investors.

DENMARK - The private equity arm of pension fund ATP has launched a new €1bn ($1.3bn) fund backed fully by the pension scheme.

Communications specialist Ferrier Pearce has appointed Mike Jones to its pensions creative team as an associate director.

The UK private pension system is "not fit for purpose" and "hugely inefficient", research by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce finds.

NETHERLANDS - The pension fund for food manufacturer Hero has completed a €44m ($58m) buy-in deal, the first of its kind in the Netherlands.

JAPAN - Japanese finance minister Yoshihiko Noda said the government hasn't decided to maintain its 50% pension obligation next year after media reports said it has secured funds to meet the payouts.

UK - Projected costs of enforcing the auto-enrolment regime were redacted from the Making Auto-enrolment Work Review but are substantial, delegates heard.

PPF turns down G&H pension scheme; Expat pensions: are you saving enough for a quality retirement?

The future of enhanced transfer value exercises has been secured after the government abandoned plans to ban transfers from contracted out defined benefit schemes.