News

INCLUDING: UK - Resolution becomes Friends; AUSTRALIA - Property fund success; ASIA - Pakistan pulls in professional help; JAPAN - Nomura reports first quarter results

Fidelity International is targeting Europe, the Middle East and Africa region with the launch of its latest fund.

A TELEVISION advertising campaign is being launched to encourage employers and staff to improve their skills.

US - The Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) has decided not to divest from Sudan despite recent state and national calls to do so.

Investment and risk consultant Cardano has opened a London office to provide UK schemes with an alternative to established firms.

Treasury fears over tax relief on personal accounts could result in them becoming a privatised version of state benefits, Grant Thornton warns.

THE CONCLUSIONS of the department for work and pensions deregulatory review of occupational pension schemes have been published.

THE ALTERNATIVE Investment Management Association has launched an investor steering committee for the hedge fund industry.

Pensions for around 26,000 Gurkhas will be boosted by an average of 19pc, the ministry of defence says.

City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer faces a raft of age discrimination claims if it loses a case brought by former restructuring head Peter Bloxham.