Allianz Global Investors has recruited an infrastructure loan investment team to satisfy institutional demand for long-term income.

Institutional investors and their consultants are among the individuals and organisations responsible for tip-offs to the Securities & Exchange Commission's newly created Whistleblower Program.

Deutsche Bank has announced a strategic review of its global asset management division, sparking expectations Germany's biggest bank could eventually put the unit up for sale.

GLOBAL - Hedge funds might capture news headlines when they lose money as a result of financial crimes and misdemeanours, but pensions are stung more often partly due to their more regular investing patterns, according to a securities litigation lawyer...

EUROPE - Finance practitioners generally echoed the welcome markets gave to details of the latest, expanded eurozone rescue deal, but said the "eye of the storm" will now move to focus on Italy and its beleaguered ruling coalition.

GERMANY - Germany's institutional investors are not only interested in returns, but also the safety of those returns, according to a study published by Union Investment.

GLOBAL - The dispersion of returns between hedge funds in September was the highest ever seen by Luke Ellis, head of Man's multi-manager unit and a veteran of at least 13 years in the fund of hedge funds business.

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.

AUSTRALIA/EUROPE - The head of Australia's sovereign wealth fund has launched a harsh attack on eurozone's political class, saying the bloc's debt crisis stemmed from "a failure of government to understand the nature of financial markets and to stop the...

Hedge funds overall lost 2.3% in August - a poor month by their own standards - but this average figure for the $2trn industry masks eye-watering numbers some individual managers are now posting to data providers.