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UK - Buyout firms Paternoster and L&G dominate the UK market with 90% of all business, but industry insiders warn that present trading conditions are likely to be unsustainable in the long term.

MAN Investments has launched a new investment division specialising in financing projects that tackle environmental problems.

The downfall of Opes Prime, a Melbourne broker that engaged in securities lending and financing, has spurred calls for greater regulation to promote transparency into short selling and securities lending.

A recent US Supreme Court decision in the LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates case has expanded the potential liability exposure for pension fiduciaries, as Frances Phillips Taft explains

With volatile markets and the need for big returns, active management mandates are on the increase. However, pension funds should not rush in blindly, finds Andrew Sheen

David Russell and Danyelle Guyatt take a look at the incorporation of ESG issues into investment in alternatives and suggest a number of action points for pension funds

CEE - Aegon plans to target small pension funds for acquisition in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in its bid to win a 10% market share of the region's mandatory schemes by 2010.

CANADA - The C$120bn Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has become the latest in a growing number of institutional investors allocating funds to clean technology, with a US$200m investment in US-based wind power firm Noble Environmental Power....

Currency risk is an inherent part of investment in foreign equities and especially significant with today's short term accounting horizons. Ben Kottler looks at how to assess currency risk

No one is disputing the replacement of DB with DC anymore, instead they are exploring ways to make DC as successful as it needs to be. Heather Dale reports