Europe

UK - Marlborough Stirling division The Exchange has reduced fees and packaging structure for its analysis tools on Exweb.

UK - Scottish Life's occupational group pension sales jumped nearly 50% to £54.6m last year.

EUROPE - SEI Investments has expanded its European investment team.

UK - ING Real Estate Investment Management UK (formerly Baring, Houston & Saunders) has recently appointed Emma Tooley to its acquisitions and development team.

UK - Fledgling "no gain, no fee" fund manager Bedlam will only be charging for one of its three funds - unless performance improves in the next month.

UK - Old Mutual Asset Managers has launched two long/short equity funds, taking its range of alternative products to three.

EUROPE - European insurers face a year of pressure on their solvency margins, Fitch Ratings predicts.

UK - Raj Mody and Andy Staddon are to take over the running of Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow's Leeds office.

BELGIUM/FRANCE - Euroclear France, the world's largest settlement system, has launched Europe's first automated processing service for Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) in the primary market.

UK - Examples of how life and pension companies have reduced running costs of closed book operations will be outlined at a seminar in London next month.