With a return of just 6.4% per year in traditional investment vehicles, a shortfall of 1.6%, many pension funds opt to invest in alternative options which promise higher returns.
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Bunge Ltd explores options in biofuels investments
Bunge Ltd CEO is seeking to sell off its 'crown jewels' as depressed prices and operating losses have made the business unprofitable.
Atlantic Grid and Google moves from wind power to power transmission
Atlantic Grid had moved to connecting power for delivery to New Jersey state. The company that had plans to build an undersea power transmission line backed by Google, Atlantic Grid Development LLC, has refocused its efforts in moving electrical power across New Jersey instead of its original plan of interconnecting offshore wind farms.
FIRREA law's coverage exempts no one
The investigation into improprieties related to mortgage backed securities hinges its legality in a 1989 law.
A recent report showed a drop in total funding in the Indian wind sector
Mercom Capital Group reported a wind sector investment for India totalling USD5.6 billion. The third quarter wind venture capital funding fell to USD135 million from USD210 million in the previous quarter of 2013.
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Fund managers BlackRock Inc and Neuberger Berman Group LLC seek settlement in the amount of USD5.75 billion for mortgage backed securities fraud.
Called expedited processing, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE would allow direct offers of prepaid products to be made by telcos.
Seeing a decline in its fees and revenues in its current market, Fidelity Investments goes into ETF management, a market dominated by the Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc.
Kuwaiti Finance Minister Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz al-Sabah said the government is reviewing its subsidies system to its residents and subsidies.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE would, after a five year wait, put the mobile phone number portability system operational by December.
With its consortium, Petrobras leads to extract the oil from the Libra pre-salt mine. A consortium led by Petroleo Brasileiro SA had landed a license to develop the largest oil discovery in Brazil under terms that had exceeded projections.
TrueEX's application for interest rate swap facilities is the next step to consolidate the market.
beRecruited, the top athletic recruitment social network, was sold off by Madison Parker Capital to the Raine Group.
Egypt was able to leverage a longer term to pay back the aid package provided by Kuwait. Kuwait had given Egypt five years to repay a USD2 billion central bank deposit.
