Europe

UK - Former Hermes Pensions Management chief executive Alastair Ross Goobey has received a £500,000 golden handshake.

UK - Lionbrook Property Partnership is seeking the consent of its partners to open for new investment.

SPAIN - Infiltrating the Spanish market is going to be much more challenging than foreign fund managers may think, according to Cerulli Associates.

UK - Food group Uniq is to close its £425m final salary scheme to new members from the end of the month.

UK - A major survey on pension scheme attitudes towards alternative investment strategies is being launched by JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has appointed Nick Codd and Tony Salter as senior consultants and European principals.

UK - Firms will face large pay demands unless they make "adequate" contributions to money purchase schemes.

UK - Colin Morrison has been hired as head of performance and risk measurement at Standard Life Investments.

WALES - Tougher laws to protect occupational pension scheme members have been put forward by Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru.

UK - Schemes are calling on OPRA to open its books and disclose all bogus pensions liberators.