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GLOBAL - Have you missed the biggest stories in pensions this week? Find out below, as we list the top 10 most popular stories on www.globalpensions.com over the past seven days.

ASIA - Aviva Investors has appointed Patrick Chong as head of financial institutions business development - Asia Pacific.

GLOBAL - Pension fund assets accounted for almost $30trn of investment manager assets worldwide in 2010, research by TheCityUK shows.

The aggregate deficit of S&P 1500 pension plans increased by $134bn in September, reaching a "post-World War II high", Mercer claims.

GLOBAL - State Street has crossed the $10trn mark in client assets serviced by its investment analytics team, the company has confirmed.

GLOBAL - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has unveiled a five-step strategic plan to drive its agenda over the next two years.

GLOBAL - A handful of sophisticated pension funds are expanding their securities lending programmes to include lending emerging markets securities, which rake in higher fees than their developed market counterparts, an eSecLending official said.

EUROPE - Europe's cental bank and even the IMF should share in the haircuts on Greek debt that seem increasingly inevitable for private bondholders,UK asset manager Schroders claims.

GLOBAL - Pension funds and other institutional investors are favouring one-year investment strategies as they attempt to limit their risk exposure, research by MSCI suggests.

GLOBAL - JLT Investment Solutions, New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Board, AXA Investment Managers, BlackRock, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, F&C Investments, RPMI, Oddo Asset Management