Europe

UK - Liberata Life Pensions & Investements has appointed Steve Casey as a general manager on its Axa Sun Life account.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson's employee benefits group has won a contract to provide pension services for the AMP group schemes.

UK - Institutional shareholders must discipline company boards which do not demonstrate best practice in corporate governance, Standard Life Investments says.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has moved to new offices in Liverpool.

US/UK - Neptune Investment Management has launched the Neptune US Opportunities fund and has appointed Craig Ellis as head of US equities.

UK - The £1.9bn Hampshire County Council Pension Fund has acquired two warehouses in Oxfordshire and Berkshire totalling nearly £7m.

UK - Pension funds will turn increasingly to enhanced index investing in a bid to boost returns, fund managers predict.

UK - Staff at nine Royal Ordnance factories are threatening strike action to defend their final salary pension schemes.

UK - Private equity investment forms an increasingly large proportion of funding for mergers and acquisition, KPMG Corporate Finance research shows.

UK - Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed Neil Brennan as its head of human resources consulting.