Appointments

Written submissions for Professional Pensions' inaugural Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager Awards are now being assessed by the judging panel.

Written submissions for Professional Pensions' inaugural Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager Awards will now be assessed by the judging panel.

BARING Asset Management has appointed Marino Valensise to take over as chief investment officer from Michael Hughes, who will retire at the end of the year.

THE INVESTMENT Management Association has appointed Guy Sears as its new wholesale director.

Trustees should not carry out their own covenant assessments instead of paying external advisers for the service, managers believe.

The deadline for written submissions for Professional Pensions' inaugural Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager Awards is today.

MERCER has appointed Tony Pugh to the new role of head of defined contribution pension services in the UK.

The deadline for written sub-missions for Professional Pensions' inaugural Specialist and Alternative Investment Manager Awards closes tomorrow (Friday).

ProTRUST has hired former Mercer director and worldwide partner David Johnson to head up its expansion plans as consulting director.

PERMAL has hired a director of UK operations in a bid to boost its presence in the pension scheme market place.