INCLUDING: NETHERLANDS - ABN Amro saga rumbles on, UK - AXA IM launches currency fund, NETHERLANDS -ABP sorts out trades, CANADA - Actuaries call for change.

THE Local Authority Pension Fund Forum has urged the Institutional Shareholders Committee to recommend fund managers to publicly disclose comprehensive data on how they exercise voting rights.

UK - Hermes Focus Asset Management Europe HFAME has appointed a new investment director for its European Focus Fund.

US - Claymore Securities has launched a Sudan-free exchange traded fund (ETF) on the American Stock Exchange.

UK - Watson Wyatt has lost a contract with Royal Liver to Mercer Investment Consulting, Global Pensions can exclusively reveal.

LAWRENCE CHURCHILL has been reappointed as chairman of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) for a further three years.

GERMANY - A social tax exemption for deferred compensation plans will be extended beyond 2008.

UK - JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has secured five custody mandates from small pension funds.

US - An independent auditor's report has criticized the behaviour of two senior officers at Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS)

UBS Global Asset Management has confirmed Southwark Council will rent a property development in London Bridge for £7.5m a year.