Investment

Hewitt Associates has expanded its UK investment consulting team with the appointments of Laun Middleton and David Page.

BNP Paribas is due to launch a corporate self-invested personal pension administration service for a large insurer.

Telent - the former Marconi telecoms group owned by Pension Corporation - has agreed a 15-year funding plan with trustees in a bid to shore up its pension scheme.

UK/NETHERLANDS - The ING Group is continuing its corporate restructuring, started in October 2006, with the full separation of the banking and the insurance unit, including its asset management unit, said ING Investment Management's (ING IM) new Europe...

High-earners facing a triple tax on their pension savings should consider using an employer financed retirements benefit scheme to save money, Barnett Waddingham says

Trustees responsible for defined benefit schemes entering the Pension Protection Fund assessment period must not neglect their defined contribution duties, Xafinity says.

The Pensions Regulator has launched a campaign to foster good governance and administration, as well as better management of pension scheme risks.

UK - Companies and their investors are failing to take changes in weather patterns properly into account in their investment decisions, latest research revealed.

NETHERLANDS - ING Investment Management (ING IM) has appointed Michel van Elk as chief executive of ING IM Europe.

CANADA - Canadian defined benefit (DB) pension funds will struggle to meet future obligations to members, according to a survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services.