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• INVESTMENT FOCUS-"Great Rotation" may have already begun Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 11:07 AM ET

  LONDON, June 13- Just as a month-long stock market rout seems to have further trashed the concept of a "Great Rotation" from bonds into equities, evidence is emerging that institutional investors may have already begun such a shift.

• SC pension fund posting 12.7 percent return Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 8:15 AM ET

  COLUMBIA, S.C.-- South Carolina's pension fund investments are expected to post double-digit earnings for the current fiscal year. The Retirement System Investment Commission said Thursday its investments earned $3 billion between last July 1 and April 30, pushing the fund's worth to almost $28 billion.

• Downturn challenges Poland's tea-drinking fiscal hawk Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 2:00 AM ET

  WARSAW, June 13- With his fondness for tea in china cups and upper-class English accent, British-born Jacek Rostowski projects an air of cultivated calm, but the economic slowdown has put his job as Poland's finance minister in the balance. Rostowski, an admirer of ex-British leader Margaret Thatcher, has overseen one of Europe's few economic success stories.

• UPDATE 1-Detroit adviser to return $3 million to pension fund -SEC Monday, 10 Jun 2013 | 3:35 PM ET

  *Latest federal action in corruption case of former Detroit mayor. WASHINGTON, June 10- A Detroit- based investment adviser agreed to give back $3.1 million that U.S. regulators allege he stole from a pension fund for the city's police and firefighters, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.

• Detroit adviser settles SEC charges of pension theft Monday, 10 Jun 2013 | 2:19 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 10- A Detroit- based investment adviser agreed to give back $3.1 million that U.S. regulators allege he stole from a pension fund for the city's police and firefighters, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.

• UPDATE 1-Kuwaiti-led consortium offers $8.2 bln for Severn Trent Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 10:05 AM ET

  LongRiver Partners comprising the Kuwait Investment Office, Britain's Universities Superannuation Scheme and Borealis Infrastructure, which is part of Canadian pension fund OMERS, submitted a conditional cash offer of 2,200 pence for each Severn Trent share to the company's board.

• UPDATE 2-Japan's $1 trln public pension cuts govt bond weighting, lifts stocks Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 8:11 AM ET

  TOKYO, June 7- Japan's public pension fund, the world's largest with a pool of $1.1 trillion, announced on Friday the most significant shift in its asset allocation since 2006 so it can take on greater risk by shifting into stocks and away from Japanese government bonds.

• UPDATE 1-Japan public pension cuts govt bond weighting, lifts stocks Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 2:41 AM ET

  TOKYO, June 7- Japan's public pension fund, the world's largest with more than $1 trillion in assets, said on Friday it would lift its weighting in stocks and cut its allocation target for Japanese government bonds in a bid to seek higher returns.

• U.S. money fund reform may hit retail investors with higher fees Wednesday, 5 Jun 2013 | 1:36 PM ET

  BOSTON, June 5- Retail investors may not escape money market fund reform unscathed as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed allowing funds to impose new fees and limits on withdrawing money in times of financial distress.

• RPT-EXCLUSIVE-Abe to urge review of Japan's public fund strategy -sources Monday, 3 Jun 2013 | 6:23 PM ET

  TOKYO, June 4- Japan's government is set to urge the nation's public pension funds- a pool of over $2 trillion- to increase their investment in equities and overseas assets as part of a growth strategy being readied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to people with knowledge of the policy shift.

• UPDATE 1-Abe to urge review of Japan's public fund strategy -sources Monday, 3 Jun 2013 | 3:42 PM ET

  June 4- Japan's government is set to urge the nation's public pension funds- a pool of over $2 trillion- to increase their investment in equities and overseas assets as part of a growth strategy being readied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to people with knowledge of the policy shift.

• Abe to urge review of Japan public fund strategy-sources Monday, 3 Jun 2013 | 2:48 PM ET

  June 4- Japan's government is set to urge the nation's public pension funds- a pool of over $2 trillion- to increase their investment in equities and overseas assets as part of a growth strategy being readied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to people with knowledge of the policy shift.

• UPDATE 1-SAC redemptions grow, as Magnitude Capital joins in Friday, 31 May 2013 | 4:04 PM ET

  NEW YORK, May 31- Investor redemptions from Steven A. Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, continue, with Magnitude Capital emerging as the latest outside investor asking to get money back from the $15 billion hedge fund.

• Japan Public Pension Mulls Shift in Stock Ownership Thursday, 30 May 2013 | 7:01 AM ET

  

  Japan's public pension fund - a pool of over $1 trillion - is considering a change to its portfolio strategy that could allow its investment in domestic stocks to grow with a rallying market, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

• EXCLUSIVE-Japan public pension mulls shift after stock rally-sources Thursday, 30 May 2013 | 6:20 AM ET

  TOKYO, May 30- Japan's public pension fund- a pool of over $1 trillion- is considering a change to its portfolio strategy that could allow its investment in domestic stocks to grow with a rallying market, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

• ANALYSIS-Trickle, not flood, seen when overseas stocks open to Chinese Wednesday, 29 May 2013 | 5:00 PM ET

  SHANGHAI, May 30- Signals Beijing is preparing to unleash the buying power of Chinese individual investors on overseas markets may have some stock brokers salivating at the prospect the new money can add another leg to Wall Street's record-breaking rally.

• S.Korea state pension fund to invest more in stocks Tuesday, 28 May 2013 | 9:33 PM ET

  SEOUL, May 29- South Korea said on Wednesday the national pension service, the world's fourth-largest, plans to boost the weighting of stocks and alternative assets in the total over the coming years while cutting that of bonds.

• Blackstone Notifies Cohen's SAC It Intends to Pull Funds Saturday, 25 May 2013 | 11:44 AM ET

  

  The letter from pension consulting firm Russell Investments said Blackstone submitted its redemption notice to SAC Capital sometime before May 15 because of ongoing concerns about the insider trading investigation that continues to engulf Cohen's fund.

• Stern Advice-Why pension funds are eating your 401(k)'s lunch Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | 1:27 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, May 22- Pension funds- those old guaranteed-benefit retirement plans your grandma might have told you about- outperform those in 401 plans year after year, according to new research from consulting company Towers Watson.

• REUTERS SUMMIT-Brazil offers better terms for infrastructure investors Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 4:40 PM ET

  Brazil seeking vehicle for pension funds to invest in projects. BRASILIA, May 21- Brazil is sweetening terms for major infrastructure contracts to whet investor appetite and draw private capital and expertise needed to upgrade its deficient roads, railways and ports, the man in charge of planning the projects said on Tuesday.