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NETHERLANDS - Pension funds in the Netherlands are repositioning their risk budgets as they increasingly come to the conclusion that classical asset managers will struggle to beat their benchmark.

US - Activist shareholder body, Change to Win (CtW) Investment Group, has attacked the directors of several major US banks, including Morgan Stanley, for alleged failings in risk oversight, which it says led to massive sub-prime losses.

US- Duff Capital Advisors (DCA) has entered the US pension fund buyout market, targeting underfunded small to mid-sized pension plans without adequate in-house management expertise.

NORWAY - Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global has restructured its equity and fixed income units, following poor performance in 2007.

AUSTRALASIA - Russell Investment Group's merger of its institutional and retail advisory units in Australia and New Zealand is motivated by a convergence in both spheres and signals a more "holistic" approach to servicing clients, according to Chris Corneil,...

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ROYAL MAIL managers have voted to reject the company's proposed pension changes in a ballot on the issue.

AUSTRALIA - The government will continue to allow superannuation as part of a worker's award conditions, overturning a previous decision to phase them out in June 2008.

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