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RISK avoidance and managing volatility are the top priorities for scheme sponsors in the wake of the credit crisis, research by SEI Investments shows.

GLOBAL - Reducing volatility in investment portfolios has been named as a top priority by UK pension plan sponsors, in a survey by SEI.

PIMCO has hired three portfolio managers in a bid to expand its European asset backed securities business.

BARRACK, Rodos & Bacine has appointed Keith Bray as its local authority consultant in the UK.

THE Pensions Regulator has published a guidance to help trustees better utilise the expertise advisers and service providers can bring to pension schemes.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has attacked critics of the rise in the PPF levy scaling factor, blasting the reaction as scaremongering, unfair and misrepresentative.

GLOBAL - AEGON has revealed plans to merge its asset management businesses in the US, UK, and the Netherlands by January 2009.

Heather Dale canvasses manager opinion on how absolute returns should be defined, implementation and the key challenges of liquidity and transparency

UK - Pension funds recorded their fourth consecutive month of fund surpluses at the end of May, but Aon has warned the effects of inflation will continue to drive volatility.

ATP has bucked the local trend and continued to pay guaranteed return. Andrew Sheen talks to Bjarne Graven Larsen to find out about this and ATP's stance on ethical investment and alternatives