Europe

UK - The £4.5bn West Yorkshire Pension Fund has gone live with Comino electronic document management and workflow system.

UK/US - The US Senate is set to hold a public hearing on an international treaty that will harmonise tax relief between British and American pension funds.

EUROPE - AXA Rosenberg Investment Management's equity alpha funds, the Dublin-based range of 15 specialist equity UCITS, have scooped eight awards at the Standard & Poor's European Fund Awards 2003.

UK/AUSTRALIA - Royal & SunAlliance has agreed to sell Tyndall Investment Management (Australia) to James Fielding Holdings for around A$28m.

UK - Heath Lambert Consulting has been appointed as administrator to the whole of Merloni Domestic Appliances' UK-based £140m pensions operations.

UK - The Kodak Pension Plan in the UK is in the process of re-running its asset/liability model which is likely to result in a further increase in its exposure to absolute return programmes.

UK - The Pensions Trust is seeking to significantly reduce its annual actuarial costs of £600,000 by re-tendering its actuary service contract.

UK - Pension funds endured another year of negative returns in 2002 seeing investments plummet by 13.9%, according to the WM Company.

UK - The Pensions Advisory Service has urged the government to reveal the timing of proposals that will govern schemes in wind-up.

UK - Majedie Asset Management has selected the Financial Models Company to provide it with portfolio modelling and performance measurement software.