Europe

UK - Trade unions are approaching pension scheme trustees to get proxy voting results from fund managers.

UK - Housing association The William Sutton Trust is to raise its retirement age from 60 to 65 in a bid to cut pensions costs.

US/UK -Simon Melluish has been promoted to the newly created position of head of US equities for Gartmore Global Investments.

UK - Io Investors has revealed that the vast majority of its new hedge fund clients are pension funds.

UK/US - The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum is backing moves to curb corporate greenhouse gas emissions in the US following its campaign in the UK.

UK - International Financial Data Services - a joint venture between State Street Corporation and DST Systems - has appointed Simon Hudson-Lund as managing director of administration services.

UK - Pension advisory service OPAS needs extra volunteer advisers to cope with a record number of inquiries from the public.

UK - Horwarth Clark Whitehill has boosted its pensions group with the appointment of two senior managers.

UK - Hymans Robertson is set to sell its small self-administered scheme business to Barnett Waddingham.

UK - The National Consumer Council has called on the government to phase out means-tested benefits.