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European investor confidence into riskier assets is increasing - bucking a global trend of reduced risk appetite from institutional investors, State Street research shows.

Local government exposure to index-linked bonds dropped last year against a backdrop of increasing allocations to the asset class from corporate defined benefit schemes, figures show.

Japanese asset managers and pension funds share their experiences dealing with one of Japan's most severe natural disasters. Gavin Blair and Raquel Pichardo-Allison report

GLOBAL - Institutional investors should look beyond BRIC countries and consider smaller emerging markets such as Chile, Peru and Hungary, State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) believes.

GLOBAL - Investor confidence rose 6.5 points in March, from February's revised reading of 91.8 to 98.3, State Street Global Markets said.

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Following the global crash's punishing exposure of over-correlated investments, Emma Cusworth looks at how UK schemes have diversified to de-risk their portfolios

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds worth $4trn in assets have resumed their moves into alternative assets in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, new research by Preqin showed.

The Pension Protection Fund has reappointed State Street to provide a range of global custody and administration services and also hired it to provide securities lending services for the first time.