US - The City and County of San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS) is seeking an alternative investment consultant.

UK - The London Borough of Lewisham pension fund is looking for a global equities and fund of hedge funds manager following a portfolio shake up.

CHANGES in the corporate bond index have caused a ‘considerable but artificial' improvement of around £12bn in the way pension schemes look in FTSE 100 accounts.

AP Information Services has been sold to Waterlow Law & Regulatory for an undisclosed sum.

AUSTRALIA - The promoter of a superannuation rollover scheme has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court.

CANADA - The union oversight committee of Canada's Prince Edward Island (PEI) government employee pension fund has been reduced from three members to one by the province's government.

UK - Independent pension trustee Law Debenture has issued the latest in its series of Pensions Essentials, aimed at helping trustees identify and manage the major risks to a defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

UK - The pensions industry has reacted to the Pension Regulator's announcement of new longevity rates for actuarial valuations, with concern raised that the excess funding levels required to achieve coverage would severely increase scheme liabilities....

HORNBUCKLE MITCHELL delivered its fifth consecutive year of growth in 2007, latest company figures reveal.

SWEDEN - Informed Portfolio Management (IPM) has expanded into the German and Continental European markets with its first local office in the region.