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CLIMATE change investments have the potential to outperform traditional equity portfolios in the long term, Cowen Asset Management says.

AFRICA - Standard & Poor's has expanded its Africa Index Series with the addition of the S&P Pan Africa, S&P Africa Frontier and S&P Africa 40 indices.

EUROPE - The Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pension Supervisors (CEIORPS) has released a report on the differences between solvency requirements and barriers to creating a truly harmonised European pension system.

INCLUDING: US - State Street names chief risk officer; UK/US - AIMA and MFA enter alliance; UK - NAPF releases conference video footage; US - Colorado's FFPA retains BNY Mellon

AN industry trade body has slammed "unreasonable criticism" faced by hedge funds.

GERMANY - JPMorgan has rolled out its Lifemetrics Index for pension funds in Germany to benchmark and trade longevity risk.

US - The Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System (SCERS) produced an investment return of -0.8% in the last quarter of 2007 but retained 8.4% over the calendar year.

THE Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors has published two reports.

Employer contributions fall; Flowers gets brush off from Friends

ENSURING members value and understand their pension is the toughest challenge for defined contribution schemes across Europe, a Mercer study reveals.