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GLOBAL - The secondary private equity market could parallel the buy out bubble of 2007, one consultant warned.

GLOBAL - Nearly 70% of all asset management merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter were a result of banks shedding their asset management arms, data by Jefferies Putnam Lovell showed.

The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board has launched a probe into the conduct of an actuary in connection with Equitable Life.

Aviva has called on the government to scrap higher rate tax relief on pensions and introduce a blanket unified relief rate of 30%.

The Conservatives have pledged to reverse the multi-billon pound pension "tax raid" introduced in 1997 by then chancellor Gordon Brown.

Level annuity rates continue to decline in October as the top two providers slash rates, according to Alexander Forbes Annuity Bureau.

The Pension Protection Fund has appointed Dick Barfield as a non-executive director board member.

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T. Rowe Price has launched its first global fixed income absolute return strategy.

ASIA - Asian institutional investors have been questioning the use of external managers in their US$5trn pots after their internal portfolios largely outperformed those of outside managers over the past year.