Europe

UK - HSBC Asset Management has appointed Richard Wisentaner to its global bond team as a senior portfolio manager.

UK - The Association of Pensioner Trustees has called on the government to reconsider plans to apply a single set of investment criteria for small self-administered schemes.

UK - Beleaguered dairy group Milk Marque is to put a final £8.15m into its staff pension fund before closing down its business and severing any ties with the scheme.

EUROPE - Asset managers have failed to improve their performance despite massive spending on research, management consultant McKinsey claims.

UK - Mining giant Anglo American has unveiled plans to review its executives' share option scheme in a bid to placate angry pension funds.

UK - Corporate governance review author Derek Higgs has broken his own guidelines, research by pension funds shows.

UK - The Association of British Insurers has published the 37th edition of Insurance Trends.

UK - The Church of England paid an additional £8.1m towards clergy pensions to help parishes cope with their final salary obligations in 2002.

UK - Cass Business School's faculty of actuarial science and statistics has won the Worshipful Company of Actuaries' Award of Honour for 2003.

UK - Bank of Ireland Asset Management has appointed the FPS Group to provide outsourced administrative services to its additional voluntary contribution portfolio.