Europe

UK - Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow has released its Pensions Pocket Book for 2003 in association with NTC Publications.

UK - AXA Investment Managers has appointed John Martindale as an institutional sales manager.

UK - Trade unionists have attacked the appointment of Merrill Lynch vice-chairman Adair Turner as head of a commission on pensions and savings.

BELGIUM - VKG, the 18,000-member pension fund for doctors, dentists and pharmacists, decided to buck the Belgian trend and shift away from equities.

UK - The £1bn Norfolk County Council Pension Fund has put a specialist UK equities mandate - worth 20% of the scheme's total assets - out to tender.

UK - Barnett Waddingham is holding a series of seminars to discuss the Green Paper and the Inland Revenue's report, Simplifying the Taxation of Pensions.

UK/EUROPE - Planned European legislation could scupper simplification proposals in the pensions Green Paper, the Smith & Williamson Pension Consultancy claims.

UK - Credit Suisse Asset Management has added six funds to its pooled funds range, bringing its total offerings to 16.

UK - Fund managers are urging schemes to put more money into equities to take advantage of market upturns this year.

NORWAY - Gisele Marchand has started as director of the State Public Pension Fund, replacing Kapser Holand.