State Street

JAPAN - Mizuho Trust & Banking has broken into the top three largest asset managers in Japan, displacing State Street Global Advisors Japan (SSgA), a quarterly report by the Japan Pensions Industry Database showed.

CANADA - The C$2.2bn (US$2.03bn) Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation has hired State Street to provide custody, fund accounting and securities lending services.

Emma Dunkley looks at how quant strategies have performed since the beginning of the sub-prime crisis, and considers how they are set to develop

UK - Kevin O'Neill and Samina Vernon have joined State Street Global Markets as vice presidents in the transition management team, the firm said today.

US - Ronald Logue will retire from his position as State Street's chairman and chief executive next year and will be replaced by president and chief operating officer Jay Hooley.

US - California attorney general Edmund Brown has sued State Street for US$200m for allegedly overcharging the nation's two largest pension funds for currency trades.

Global Pensions asked a panel of experts to share their thoughts on quantitative strategies and how they are performing in the current economic climate

Emma Dunkley reports from Global Pensions' annual Transition Management Forum held on September 9, 2009 at Plaisterers' Hall, London

With superannuation funds facing a lack of confidence and questions arising over manager performance it is a time of change for Australian pensions, as Rachel Alembakis reports

GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds (SWF) may decide to purchase special drawing rights (SDR)-denominated bonds, creating a wider market for the instrument some have touted as the alternative to the US dollar as the reserve currency.