Delaying pension-related age discrimination legislation will not give schemes enough time to implement changes, an exclusive survey by Professional Pensions reveals.

UK - The £3.5bn London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) has confirmed further Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) are in the pipeline, after the fund allocated £20m to Impax.

EUROPE/US - Boutique manager SVM Asset Management revealed it has discussed taking its new SRI fund over to the US, although it stressed no concrete plans had yet been made.

EUROPE - The funding deficit affecting European occupational pension plans "is a man-made disaster" and not just the result of falling equity markets, claimed author Guy Fraser-Sampson.

US - Mellon Asset Management achieved total revenues of US$596m in the third quarter, representing a more than 8% increase from Q2.

EUROPE - Morley Property has appointed its first dedicated property securities fund manager in the form of ABP's Paul van de Vaart.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has warned that the new age discrimination proposals could result in the reduction of pensions benefits in at least a third of pension schemes.

US - George Diehr has been re-elected as board representative for State active employees at the US$220bn California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).

EUROPE/US - Boutique manager SVM Asset Management revealed it has discussed taking its new SRI fund over to the US, although it stressed no concrete plans had yet been made.

Full details of how to enter next year's UK Pensions Awards will be published in next week's issue of Professional Pensions and online at www.professionalpensions.com .