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ING Real Estate Investment Management has raised more than £50m for its Lionbrook Property Fund.

The Pensions Advisory Service is using the default retirement age, which could soon be abolished, to sack long serving technical director Des Hamilton.

Socially Responsible Investment is fast becoming a "hygiene factor" for members of defined contribution schemes, a fund manager says.

The Society of Pension Consultants has urged new pensions minister Steve Webb to make auto-enrolment and NEST his top priorities.

Pensions now have little relevance to employers and are no longer a major employee benefit for many firms, Terry Faulkner says.

SWITZERLAND - Over 80% of Swiss private pension funds stated a cover ratio of 100% or more at the end of last year, the Swisscanto Pension Funds Survey 2010 found.

Fund managers have branded the German regulators ban on naked short selling of various securities in equity and fixed income markets as political posturing rather than an effective remedy to volatility.

GLOBAL - Fund managers have branded the German regulators ban on naked short selling of various securities in equity and fixed income markets as political posturing rather than an effective remedy to volatility.

CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE - Institutional investor appetite for Central and Eastern European stocks had returned in the second half of 2009 after a loss of appetite during the financial crisis, according to a study, but the verdict is still out for 2010....

Zurich UK Life has announced enhancements to its Trustee Investment Plan.