NORWAY - The NOK 2.1bn (€250m) Oslo Pensjonsforsikring (OPF) has appointed Northern Trust to provide custody services for its global fixed income portfolio, managed by investment manager Rogge Global Partners.

UK PENSION schemes are more risk averse than their US counterparts when it comes to investing in equities, research from Aon Consulting reveals.

EUROPE/ASIA - Joachim Mies has left Dresdner Kleinwort to take up the position of COO for asset management in EMEA at Credit Suisse.

SEVENTY per cent of schemes have no policy for managing conflicts of interest on trustee boards, delegates at the Professional Pensions Show heard.

UK - Players in the UK pension industry have criticised the government's pension proposals for "merely adding a further layer of complexity" and "camouflaging potentially controversial issues".

UK - FX Concepts is to target UK local authorities (UKLAs) with its Concepts Multi-Strategy Institutional Fund (GBP Shares). 

MINING and alternative energy funds are among 10 additions added to Friends Provident's mirror range.

Ministers will undermine fragile public confidence in retirement saving if they scrap alternatively secured pensions, Hargreaves Lansdown says.

COAL Pension Trustees is saving its schemes millions of pounds a year by clawing back excess commission from brokers, chief executive David Morgan claims.

SCHEMES are still facing "teething problems" more than six months after the introduction of A-Day changes, delegates to the Professional Pensions Show 2006 heard.