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AN INSURANCE product designed to protect pension schemes investing in hedge funds from fraud has been launched by Protean Investment Risks.

US - The Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) have completed a US$100m investment in shipbuilding firm Signal International.

An increasing number of investment banks - and other providers - are launching products to tackle longevity risk, which loomed large over defined benefit pension funds in 2007. Elizabeth Pfeuti looks at what's out there

ONLY 9pc of the UK's biggest 350 companies are complying fully with the provisions of the combined code on corporate governance, research from Grant Thornton reveals.

ASIA - Asset managers have seen a trend of European pension funds splitting regional allocations to Asia, following poor performances in Japan.

GLOBAL - Pension schemes fearing hedge fund fraud could be protected by an insurance product launched today by Protean Investment risks.

UK - Requests for help with pension scheme governance from trustees have doubled over the past 18 months, according to Hewitt Associates.

EUROPE - Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux has been awarded the Farsight Award for its 'Utilities vs Carbon: Phase II' research paper.

In the wake of the sub-prime crisis, Andrew Sheen examines European equities and finds that - the financial sector aside - large cap is the safest place to invest

Created in 1997 as part of a plan to revive the health of the ailing Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP IB) has gone from strength to strength. Andrew Sheen talks to senior vice president John Ilkiw