INCLUDING: US - PERF looks to small investment managers; UK - BNY Mellon offered custody extension; AUSTRALIA - Vamos outlines ASFA plans; UK - Northern Trust expands EMEA team

Members of the Pensions Action Group will hold an all night vigil opposite Downing Street on Tuesday, November 20.

US - Russell has launched an aggregate exposure manager which aims to help pension funds deal with increasingly complex portfolio investment.

The introduction of personal accounts equates to a £4bn tax on companies, Aon Consulting claims.

NETHERLANDS - PGGM plans to divest from Chinese oil firm Petrochina over its Sudan operations, if it fails to change its conduct.

US - JPMorgan has been appointed to provide portfolio administration and performance reporting to the State of Michigan's Department of Treasury Bureau of Investments' alternative investments division.

CANADA - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) has offered to buy into Railpower Technologies Corp for C$35m (US$36.6m) in convertible bonds.

FRANCE - Commuters in Paris and throughout the country have braced themselves for a further wave of strikes and demonstrations over President Nicholas Sarkozy's proposed reforms to the special pension regimes (régimes spéciaux) provided to public sector...

UK - Paternoster has taken over assets worth £170m and liabilities of the Emap Earnings Related Pension Plan (EERPP) and the Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) Pension Scheme.

INCLUDING: NETHERLANDS - PH&C creates investment head role; MACAU - Government to focus on pension provision; AUSTRALIA - QIC appoints head of institutional business; UK - SWIP chief executive announced; QATAR - Deutsche Bank expands into MENA; UK - DC...