Appointments

PAUL Myners will head up the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, the government has announced.

ASSOCIATION of British Insurers director of investment affairs Peter Montagon has been elected chairman of the board of the International Corporate Governance Network.

EDUCATIONAL charity Life Academy has appointed three new trustees - Penny Green, Alison Munro and Simon Baynes - to its board.

SCOTTISH Widows chief executive Archie Kane has been appointed as the new chairman of the Association of British Insurers.

BESTRUSTEES has hired Richard Stroud, the former chief executive of The Pensions Trust, as one of its independent trustees.

THE LONDON Metropolitan Archives has recruited Katy Holman as project archivist for The Pensions Archive Trust.

US - The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds (CRPTF) is soon expected to appoint a non-traditional investment consultant.

BLACKROCK has appointed Emma Douglas as head of defined contribution sales.

BARING Asset Management chief investment officer Michael Hughes will retire at the end of this year.

Rapid sales growth of Exchange Traded Funds across Europe has led Barclays Global Investors to create the new role of managing director and head of sales for iShares Europe.