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UK - Northumberland County Council Pension Fund has embarked on a search for two managers in active global equity fund management.

Assets under management in Standard Life Investments' higher income fund have reached £500m, the fund manager says.

Members of the Armed Forces Pensions Group will lobby the government next week in a fight for backdated pension rights.

UK - Pension fund manager Hermes has explained why it is considering active strategies for future investments in commodities on behalf of its owner, the £38bn BT Pension Scheme.

UK - A new study has revealed that multinational companies are managing their pension risks and assets with little sense of urgency.

GLOBAL- Leading infrastructure experts have warned pension funds about investing in the asset class without first doing their homework.

Brown raid added £3bn to last decade's council tax bill; IMF warns of private equity collapse; Canadian pension fund to lead world's largest ever LBO

Institutional investors should reject bosses' pay deals at mining giant Anglo American, publisher Reed Elsevier and housebuilder Persimmon, corporate governance campaigners say.

INDIA - The Union cabinet has confimed it will ask the Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA) to appoint fund managers to control the R15bn (US$340m) collected under the new pension scheme (NPS).

A poster of Gordon Brown "destroying" the occupational pensions of thousands of workers has been unveiled in Wales.