Appointments

US - California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) administrator Julia Durand, has been elected president of the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administers (NAGDCA).

GLOBAL: UN Joint Staff Pension Fund; Fidelity; SGSS;F&C; Alliance Bernstein; PBGC; BlackRock; Wurts & Associates; Kas Bank

HSBC Workplace Retirement Services has appointed Mark Winstanley as a senior client relationship manager.

UK - Tim Breedon, CEO of insurance group Legal & General (L&G), is to retire from the company at the end of 2012, when he will have completed a quarter of a century at the insurer.

JLT Investment Consulting has hired a head of manager research and head of development in a significant expansion of its London-based team.

BlackRock, Texas TRS, Pictet, ABP, New York CRF, Hermes BPK, Dalton Strategic Partnership

Resolution has appointed Tim Tookey as chief financial officer of its UK life project, Friends Life.

Global equity manager Dalton Strategic Partnership has increased it focus on UK pension funds with the appointment of a partner to head up its institutional business.

Prudential has appointed David Caw to lead the defined contribution division of its corporate pensions client management team.

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund ABP has appointed Henk Brouwer, former director of pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), chairman of its board.