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Axa Investment Managers is reshaping its institutional business with the creation of three clear "pillars" to make it more proactive and receptive to its clients.

Aberdeen Asset Management has reported a 30pc increase in assets under management to £95.3bn.

Aberdeen Property Investors has completed a second retail investment in Belgium for one of its pan-European funds.

State Street Corporation has launched a private equity index in a bid to provide investors a benchmark for their portfolios.

Axa Wealth Management has launched an enhanced individual pension proposition, with a discretionary trust option available across all its products.

UK - The Tories claim the position of Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) chairman Paul Myners is untenable after he branded the party's leaders "arrogant, superior young toffs".

STANDARD LIFE has asked 6000 members to choose between two pension options when it replaces its final salary scheme on January 1 next year.

The first three judges for the UK Pensions Awards 2008 have now been confirmed. They are: Sacker & Partners senior partner Ian Pittaway; David Somers, chairman of trustees for Dossan Babcock Energy Pension Fund and a director of AllenbridgeEPIC Investment...

Schemes should engage in active dialogue with the companies they invest in a bid to improve corporate governance and returns, delegates heard.

NETHERLANDS - Former PGGM staffer Hans Spikker is to join ABP Investments as a real estate manager.