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Not for the first time in 2009, Abu Dhabi—the federal seat of government for the United Arab Emirates—has been forced to step in and provide an injection of funds for a debt-ridden Dubai.

The Cooper Review, releasing an interim report, suggests that greater trustee skill and levels of governance should be instituted in the island nation’s pension sector.

According to the latest Global Private Equity Barometer from Coller Capital, 75% of Asian and European private equity investors were unsatisfied, while the same percentage of North Americans were satisfied.

Dubai World plans to sell assets for cash, but the government continues to maintain that it has no financial responsibility for the sovereign wealth arm that it created to fund the city’s growth.

The SEC has asked the nation’s largest public pension fund whether two former officials had any contact with an alternative investment manager convicted of paying officials for access to funds.

A CBI/Watson Wyatt study also shows that corporate profits are more often than not hurt by the pension costs associated with defined benefit systems.

Having taken a deal hiatus, the British pension buyout firm looks to reenter a market apparently on the mend following near-silence in the first half of the year.

Despite recent controversy over e-mails and a conference that is likely to lead to little in hard results, there is growing evidence that institutional investors increasingly are investing with global warming in mind.

Following similar suits by Mississippi and California, the Ohio Attorney General files suit against rating agencies.

A new Pyramis Pulse survey shows that endowments and foundations, often lumped together for the sake of simplicity, increasingly are turning to different asset allocations and risk management procedures to protect themselves from the dreaded fat tail.

A new poll shows that, while Canadian pension plan sponsors are worried about meeting their liabilities, they still are confident that the national retirement system is better equipped to handle future challenges than the rest of the world.

A group of investors that includes CalPERS, CalSTRS, bcIMC, and others has petitioned the SEC in hopes of requiring companies to disclose balance-sheet risk relating to climate change.

The California pension behemoth is giving less cash to private equity funds, and is demanding that current general partners reduce management fees.

The study also shows that European institutions have not altered their  overall equity allocation drastically, although they remain significantly more conservative then their British counterparts.

Led by three state pension funds, the class action suit accused the insurer of misrepresenting revenues from contingent commissions.