Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.
Europe’s pensions flee hedge funds
In North America pension funds poured a net $9.8bn into hedge funds and absolute return vehicles during 2011 and $4bn into multi-asset and global tactical asset allocation funds, with hedge funds grabbing the bulk of the money, but in Europe net pension fund inflows fell to £669m last year. Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 22 2013 16:35 |
6,840 | +36.40 | +0.5% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 22 2013 17:15 |
1,256 | +3.06 | +0.2% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 21 2013 05:00 |
1,669 | +2.87 | +0.2% | 1,675 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 22 2013 16:09 |
1.29 | 0.00 | -0.3% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 22 2013 21:34 |
102.40 | -1.51 | -1.5% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 22 2013 22:05 |
1,365 | -13.30 | -1.0% | 1,795 |
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