Indices

GERMANY - Corporate schemes are set to be play an increasingly important role in the future of European pension reform, according to Allianz board member Joachim Faber.

GERMANY - MetallRente, Germany's newest and biggest pension institution, has added workers from the country's textiles, timber and plastics industries, taking the number of potential members past the 4m mark.

GERMANY - Allianz has bagged a mandate from Germany's newest and biggest pension institution, covering around 3.6m employees from the metal and engineering industries.

UK - Bluebay Asset Management has been launched as a specialist manager of European fixed income credit.

UK - Twenty UK companies "most at risk" from higher pensions costs have been named by investment bank HSBC.

GLOBAL - The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and Euronext have launched the first global real estate index.

GERMANY - German stock exchange Deutsche Börse is to launch its new US segment on September 24, 2001.