UK - London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has put the investment consulting mandate for its £425m pension fund out to tender.

US - SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) has entered the US market targeting institutional investors with sustainable water and sustainable climate mutual funds.

IRELAND - The National Pension Reserve Fund (NPFR) has appointed a panel of three transition managers to minimise overall transaction costs when moving around its assets.

CANADA - Torstar Corporation has appointed CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services as the trustee and asset servicing provider for the company's pension and master trust.

UK - HM Revenue & Customs has changed the way pension funds are registered in the UK, to reduce future problems for pension administrators.

DISCUSSIONS between Qatari investment fund Delta Two and the Sainsbury pension fund trustees are continuing, despite reports of a deal being agreed.

Including: UK - Pension funds need education; US - California funds divest from Iran

THE GOVERNMENT has no option but to extend the Financial Assistance Scheme to cover solvent companies, an independent trustee firm says.

FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has launched a selection process aiming to award two mandates for passive replication of commodities indices.

SCHEME administrators will have to send all information - such as scheme returns and event reports - to HM Revenue and Customs electronically from today.