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Global Pensions will be taking a break over the Easter holiday and will return on Tuesday, 26 April.

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.

GLOBAL - Multinational companies are starting to use buy-ins and buyouts for their smaller pension funds dotted around the globe, Yvan Legris, UK and EMEA chief executive at Aon Hewitt said.

GLOBAL - Increasingly cautious institutional investors have caused a significant decline in the number of hedge fund of funds with assets of between $2bn and $5bn, research suggests.

GLOBAL - The International Monetary Fund has become the latest financial body to express concerns about the growth of the ETF industry.

GLOBAL - Emerging markets will capture an even greater share of investor allocations to private equity as limited partnerships (LPs) aggressively seek exposure to high growth markets, research suggests.

GLOBAL - Hedge funds have gates on less than 5% of industry assets, down from 35% at the peak of the financial crisis, fund brokers Tullett Prebon said.

Sustainability criteria such as ESG criteria are too important to be ignored in investment decision making, research by Allianz Global Investors suggests.

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.

UK - GlaxoSmithKline's £900m ($1.5bn) buy-in deal last year would not have been possible without transition managers, said Martin Mannion, director of pensions finance, investments and risk.