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Pension schemes currently have significant numbers of opportunities across global real estate markets, Invesco Real Estate says.

Schemes must internationalise property portfolios to diversify more efficiently, Mercer says.

US - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) losses due to multiemployer pensions could rise to an average US$4bn in 2019 from an actual $869m at the end of September 2009.

GLOBAL - Alternative asset manager Aspect Capital and Henderson Global Investors are among five hedge fund managers who have committed themselves to the Hedge Funds Standards Board's (HFSB) standards.

US - Goldman Sachs has released details of five lawsuits and an amended suit brought by a US pension fund that were filed after the bank was slapped with a civil suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month.

Mercer Investment Management has lured Thames River Capital's Bill Muysken to serve as chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies, a new position for the firm.

UK - Mercer Investment Management has lured Thames River Capital's Bill Muysken to serve as chief investment officer for alternative alpha strategies, a new position for the firm.

Labour and Liberal Democrat proposals to restrict tax relief on pension contributions have been branded "unfair" by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Standard Life has branded the Investment Governance Group's principles on improving defined contribution governance as "elitist".

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has promoted Peter Cockburn to head of UK equities.