Small-cap stocks are about to get a boost from something that historically has been responsible for nearly all outperformance over large-cap rivals: the month of January.

Networking landed Chetan Ghosh the job as CIO of Centrica PLC's pension fund and also brings him successful investment strategies.

Pension executives will continue to rely on creative investing, higher contributions and pension buyouts or lump sums to make any improvements in funded status in 2013.

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Pension Fund is searching for an active global credit manager to run £50 million.

Northill Capital acquired a 58% stake in U.S. growth equity manager Riverbridge Partners.

As British employers began automatically enrolling an estimated 10 million workers into defined contribution plans in early October, money managers with U.K. operations were seeing more question marks than dollar or pound signs.

The rush into private equity in China is destabilizing the market and could result in lower returns, smaller inflows and fewer managers staying in business.

Kevin Kneafsey was named senior adviser to Schroder Investment Management's multiasset investment and portfolio solutions business.

Federated Investors and London-based investment marketer and distributor Bury Street Capital agreed to a distribution deal on four Federated funds.

U.K. multiasset managers have set their sights on the U.S. institutional market, drawing on the success of diversified growth fund strategies that have gained rapid popularity among British investors, despite feelings that some could be in for a hard time.

Patron Capital's founder Keith Breslauer uses climbing, altruistic pursuits to balance responsibilities of running a real estate private equity firm.

Some bond managers are making hay on the recent turnaround of sovereign debt issued by peripheral eurozone countries as European leaders have made sweeping commitments to solve a debt crisis now in its third year.

Patron Capital closed its Patron Capital LP IV fund at €880 million.

New fee arrangements, emerging in response to institutional investors' push to cut costs, could put pressure on revenues of both investment managers and consultants.

The world's largest 300 retirement funds grew 1.9% in 2011 to $12.7 trillion, according to the annual survey conducted by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson & Co.

Thought leadership has taken on new importance as institutional investors try to make sense of a vertiginous new world of volatile markets, an unsteady global economy and a proliferation of investment strategies.

Lloyds Banking Group on Wednesday said it agreed to sell a £1.05 billion ($1.6 billion) private equity portfolio to Coller Capital as part of a move to reduce Lloyds' non-core assets.